Hey guys, nice to see all of you random drunks and weirdos again. It’s your old pal, Internet Dad, the original boss around these parts. How the hell are ya?
Anyway, niceties are out of the way, lets talk about some STUFF.
I’d like to talk about announcers today.
So, many of you may not know this, but old Internet Dad originally wanted to do play-by-play, when I was but a wee lad. I had grandiose dreams of being Jack Buck or the fictional Harry Doyle from Major League, just telling the millions what was going on in a baseball game and having a great time doing it. I grew up listening to Jack and Harry Carray and thought that they were the coolest sons-of-bitches alive, and that was my dream job.
Well, the state of broadcasting is at a weird place now.
It seems that everyone, everywhere, hates their local guy or the national guy. Joe Buck takes a lot of heat, and frankly, deserves some of it. However, I think that passionate sport fans everywhere get a bit too in the weeds when it comes to the local guy. Nobody can be impartial. If a guy’s a homer, they hate it. If he’s too dry, they hate it. If he replaces their guy, they hate it. We love a guy until we don’t anymore – (look out, Tony Romo, they’ll hate you soon enough). I feel like yelling at the announcer is fun, and easy, especially when they are a moron.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, Fuck Phil Simms.
Anyway, this is a bit short, I know, I’m filling in for RTD, who has had some kind of shit this morning and forced me to get out of bed, but them’s the breaks. I’ll be around more so watch your language, shitheads.
DAD!!!!!!
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The Sex Cannon or some DFOer has been busy.
Looking at you, Seamus…
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/dogs-dash-to-comfort-upset-owners-study-shows-20180725-p4ztil.html
Study verifies what we knew.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/putin-soccer-ball-for-trump-had-transmitter-chip-logo-indicates
The military was working on a secret project to get Kieth Jackson and John Madden to call a game together, but it was deemed too dangerous.
This bears repeating:
Fuck Phil Simms.
Todd Christensen ranks in my top five all time of Moose-hate. I hated him so much he died.
DTZM; sorry that some want to call you Internet Daddy.
But…but…but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oDFWQamh3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHwmtQpigKM&ab_channel=BobsBurgersClips
I’ve softened a bit on my hatred of Joe Buck over the last couple of years. His call of the Minneapolis Miracle was so elevated from his usual standard it actually entered the realm of “tolerable” for me. These days I can proudly admit that I would no longer wish for him to suffer a protracted and unthinkably painful death. A quick and painless one would be just fine.
I have never really had that much hatred for him; this is mainly due to the fact thatt I am able to ignore him, tune him out fairly well. Wish I could do that for some people at work.
My favorite announcer of all time is Brent Musburger. I love Uncle Brent so much it’s awful.
Have I got some happy news for you…https://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Raiders-name-Brent-Musburger-radio-play-by-play-13098623.php
My buddy is a YUUUUUUUUUUGE Raiders fan and also a Burgerhead (that’s what I’m calling Brent stans even though I just invented it) and he is losing. His. SHIT.
If we’re mocking our home announcers, I give you John Sterling’s Giancarlo Stanton home run call.
Or singing “The sun’ll come out… Tanaka” when he throws a complete game shutout.
Anything by the Yankees announcers is embarrassing. For example, when whats her name lost her shit because Roger Clemens said he was coming back.
Mike Lange is the greatest hockey announcer of all-time. Full stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIGz4mAJYRg&ab_channel=DietDewHunter88
Sam Rosen would like a word.
+1 power-play goal?
Subjective FACT.
I enjoyed reading this post. Your point was interesting and well made. I would like to read more posts like this in the future.
My issue with our local announcers is that, because they are homers, they think they can do no wrong. Like, I am tuning in to see the game and get coverage. The fact that you’re on the broadcast IN SPITE OF being so annoying is only proof of the strength of the product and has no relevance towards your skills as an announcer.
In short, Ron Wolfly is the overpriced disgusting $8 hot dog at the Stadium Grill of announcing.
That’s WVU alum Ron Wolfey!
(Yeah, he’s a moron. Also, his brother is the Stillers sideline guy, who is clearly suffering from CTE. He talks like a Trump tweet.)
We need some Wolfley v Wolfley pieces!
That’s a handsome fella.
I’d kill for a pay-per-view style event where there are no announcers and the referees are mic’d up and is completely uncensored.
the CFL has been doing something close to this. It’s a live mic on a few players, and then the announcing team can pipe in as well. I assume it’s on a delay to let them bleeep out stuff.
The local Lakers coverage will occasionally have the standard feed with the announcers but a different feed that features no announcers, just the arena announcer, court side camera angles and best of all no commercials.
Know what they do instead of showing commercials? They show the Laker Girls.
How the fuck is that NOT a superior game experience.
When I worked at my last job we would broadcast NHL/EPL matches that were straight production feeds. It was the best viewing experience for sure.
For some reason I read this as a pay-per-view between announcers. Which I would absolutely watch. Bonus points if deathmatch of course.
Hi kids! Sorry for the late post, we had some unforeseen shenanigans this morning.
Thanks for stepping up, Dad.