TBS playoff coverage
The 'talking head' with Ripkin and Thomas got on my hackles up already when he started off the broadcast today with -- "It's 24 hours later and Matt Holliday still hasn't touched home plate!" -- while...
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Quote:"It's 24 hours later and Matt Holliday still hasn't touched home plate!" -- while they ran the clipThat was a very controversial play that decided the one game playoff. It has been on the minds...
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I think at every step the Rockies advance, that clip will be re-aired with a "what might have been" comment implied.As for the announcing, they are a little trouble to get used to simply because we...
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Ernie Johnson is a bit much in NBA telecasts and he has guys like Barkley and Smith (both Smiths) to overshadow him. Putting him with the understated Frank Thomas and Cal Ripken Jr. is just a recipe...
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Quote:The guys that did the Rockies-Padres game had this hostage-forced-at-gunpoint-to-read-a-prepared-statement blandness about the whole thingDon Orsillo was the play-by-play guy. He works for the...
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Yeah, I didn't have any problems with the in-game crews; they were good. It was just the lead announcer in the pre-game with Cal & the Big Hurt; Ernie Johnson, or whatever his name was, just...
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Funny you should mention the "out" call on Lugo's steal: when I saw it at the time, I thought, "I don't think I have ever seen a worse call on a caught stealing." Usually the bad calls on that type of...
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Yep, he beat the throw AND the tag didn't get him! Ridiculous how BAD the call was! And they actually pick these umps as a 'merit' thing, right? Pitiful. Every year it's the same...
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Quote:Dick Stockton is a seasoned pro who makes anything, even reading a recipe, sound more official.Maybe, but don't you think that he and Darling could do a little homework and find out that the...
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As baseball announcers have spent an entire 20-year career mispronouncing a hall-of-fame player like BIDGE-ee-oh's name, I'm not surprised at a few gaffes. I remember the rare times Curt Gowdy used to...
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Quote:There was a day when play-by-play announcers or a producer spent time with a ballclub official to make sure they had the correct pronunciation and had some background ready for every player. It...
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Bob,I think it's an epidemic in society at large. It used to be that most people cared enough to do the job right for the pay they earned. In particular, if I'm an announcer I should get down on my...
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Yeah you're probably right.Back when my youngest was in HS, he wrestled and I helped out by announcing at the wrestling meets. I always went to one of the opponents coaching staff to ask about the...
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My personal favorite is Jimenez. It's Ji-ME-nez. Not JI-menez. It's got to be one of the most common Hispanic last names and it's not like it's tough to pronounce correctly. I'm thoroughly convinced...
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the 9 foot leadoff thing from first is getting annoying though..."My goal is to stay in games long enough to give your team a chance to win," Jennings said.
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Supposedly, the nine-foot lead was a sign that the runner had confidence he could steal second or dive back to first from that point. Back in the days of base cut-outs on astroturf, pitchers used to...
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The mispronunciation of names is a sign of shoddy preparation by an announcer. I did some radio and TV in college, and usually the sports information directors had pronunciations listed on the roster...
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It's an epidemic. When we go on the road we get announced and I go over the names with the announcer. They usually still get it wrong. There should be no excuse for butchering a name like Biggio. It's...
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