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Peanut President posted:Can you even do an EAS test on pay-per-view? I'm pretty sure they can. When they do an EAS test, it goes on whatever channel you're on at the time, and will stay on even when you switch channels.
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FuzzySkinner posted:A Test is something that a station/cable system is required to do weekly/monthly. They usually do them around 1-3 am Monday when most people are asleep. ah so around the time for TNA Impact!
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Mike Pereira seems like he's better at the whole "Referee on Television"-role than Mike Carey. Is there a particular reason for this or does Fox just seem to be better at covering (pro) football than CBS?
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I think it's just time on the job. Carey seems a little tentative at times. I think he'll get much better as he gains experience doing this. He was always one of the better refs from back in the day.
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Mike Carey was legit one of the best refs in the business but it's almost astounding how little of that experience shows on TV. You'd think spending decades making calls in front of 60,000-plus fans every week would condition him a bit on camera presence, but Carey shows almost none of the charisma I was used to seeing from him.
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Benne posted:Mike Carey was legit one of the best refs in the business but it's almost astounding how little of that experience shows on TV. You'd think spending decades making calls in front of 60,000-plus fans every week would condition him a bit on camera presence, but Carey shows almost none of the charisma I was used to seeing from him. How so? You're announcing it to 60,000 people in the stands while staring at the sidelines. You're not trying to deliver it into a camera.
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ayn rand hand job posted:How so? You're announcing it to 60,000 people in the stands while staring at the sidelines. You're not trying to deliver it into a camera. NFL refs have to face the TV camera for every call and know where it is (or risk being a Twitter punchline), and they're playing to the TV viewers as much as the live crowd. It's an underrated aspect of the business, and I was just confused as to how Carey could be good at that part while looking/sounding so befuddled every time CBS cuts to him. Maybe he'll get better with more experience, but he hasn't been impressive so far.
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It's probably way easier to just say "the previous play is under review" or call holding on the Seahawks than it is to eloquently explain the thought process behind a call on the fly.
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I think it has more to do with Carey being only one year removed from officiating and made commentator versus Pereira who has been outside of the game for a few years and even then wasn't a man placed in the trenches even when he was active. Carey needs some wiggle room to grow into his role and then he'll be fine. Imagine the bid feeding frenzy that will happen when "Guns" hangs it up. Personally, I'd like Red Cashion to let me know who was giving who "the business".
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Robnoxious posted:Imagine the bid feeding frenzy that will happen when "Guns" hangs it up. Oh god he'd talk so long it'd go through like five commercials breaks
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Benne posted:NFL refs have to face the TV camera for every call and know where it is (or risk being a Twitter punchline), and they're playing to the TV viewers as much as the live crowd. It's an underrated aspect of the business, and I was just confused as to how Carey could be good at that part while looking/sounding so befuddled every time CBS cuts to him. I miss Red Cashion.
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Numbers Never Lie is being changed to a TV version of the His & Hers podcast that Jemele Hill and Michael Smith have together.
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lol Francesa
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sportsgenius86 posted:Numbers Never Lie is being changed to a TV version of the His & Hers podcast that Jemele Hill and Michael Smith have together. The lede getting buried there is that maybe, just maybe, First Take's days are numbered.
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hahahaha this is amazing. "YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES A JETS RECEIVER TO GET 157 YARDS???? THREE YEARS!"
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sportsgenius86 posted:hahahaha this is amazing. I can't stand Francesa, and think his head is usually firmly up his rear end, but he really didn't say anything untrue here.
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he's only worth listening to when he's on the verge of a stroke e- lol, Opie and Anthony covering the time prank callers broke Francesa after he fell asleep on air New York radio callers are a special breed Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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Well it seems we might be nearing the end of the whole disaster of CSN Houston... sort of. Barring an appeal from Comcast, CSN Houston would be bought by AT&T and DirectTV, rebranding the network as Root Sports Houston.
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First Rockets game is supposed to be on Root Sports on Monday. If you have Comcast, DirecTV or AT&T U-Verse you should be able to watch. Of course I have Dish.
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ESPN stole the basic premise behind Tosh.0's Web Redemption and made it into their own segment, called Awesome Video. Tosh was not happy and obliterated The Worldwide Leader accordingly: http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/tosh-0-shreds-espn-stealing-web-redemption-series.html 
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Holy poo poo, he's not wrong but he is painfully unfunny. E: I want to sympathize with the guy but this sort of poo poo happens literally everywhere, to the point I just don't give a poo poo anymore, and it's really hard to find sympathy in a slapfight between basic cable shows. DJExile fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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lol my whole loving show is recycling internet videos that have already been beaten into the ground BUT DON'T STEAL MY poo poo GODDAMMIT
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CBJSprague24 posted:ESPN stole the basic premise behind Tosh.0's Web Redemption and made it into their own segment, called Awesome Video. I love me a good ESPN take down. Wasn't funny, but it definitely was an excellent hate gently caress.
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my favorite recent one is still Katie Nolan destroying Rick Reilly
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CBJSprague24 posted:ESPN stole the basic premise behind Tosh.0's Web Redemption and made it into their own segment, called Awesome Video. Daniel Tosh's comedy is the equivalent to a stopped clock being right twice a day. Unfortunately the clock just hit the Kiffin's Krimson Korner sketch and therefore this is trash.
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I got the feeling Tosh was more calling ESPN out on their BS because he's tired of it like many others are than trying to be funny.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I got the feeling Tosh was more calling ESPN out on their BS because he's tired of it like many others are than trying to be funny.
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Mildly sports related, but Stevie Wonder responded to claims started by Bomani Jones and sent into public consciousness by Deadspin that maybe, just maybe, #stevieaintblind.
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Dish Network is dropping all Comcast Sports Networks. Yes, all of them.
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Word on the street says this will be the last SEC football season Verne Lundquist ever calls.
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CaptainYesterday posted:Dish Network is dropping all Comcast Sports Networks. Yes, all of them. I'm not surprised, Dish seems to be in a lot of disputes, especially with sports. They either never carried or eventually dropped all 4 NYC-area sports channels, for example.
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I heard this on NPR while driving this morning: Frank Deford is thankful for the Spurs A sample: Frank Deford posted:Has there ever been a team in any sport in the United States that everybody loves as much as the San Antonio Spurs? Sure, there have been popular teams — the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Cowboys when they were America's team and not Jerry Jones' team, Notre Dame — but all those teams engendered almost as much hate as love. I kept sitting there, waiting for the punchline to come and it never came.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:I heard this on NPR while driving this morning: Frank Deford is thankful for the Spurs I genuinely look forward to Deford's goofy overwritten sports diatribes on Wednesday mornings on the way to work and I want him to be my cranky old Sports Grandpa who we all humor.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:I heard this on NPR while driving this morning: Frank Deford is thankful for the Spurs I feel the same way about every single thing he does, he's like a walking stereotype of old white sportswriters.
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I should also mention that I have a bunch of friends who are Spurs fans and, if anything, that rant is a restrained version of attempting to have a conversation about basketball with them.
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The only Spurs fans I know are very nice people who don't really give a poo poo about basketball. They just love their Timmy.
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So topic to bring up. I saw a few people on my timeline ripping ESPN for not reporting the Cam Newton accident immediately and continuing to discuss the ramifications of Johnny Football starting for the Cleveland Browns. Do you guys feel ESPN is at fault for not reporting on something like this or do you feel it's their responsibility to interrupt programming immediately for a situation like this?
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FuzzySkinner posted:So topic to bring up. I think it depends on the severity of the accident for one. From what it seems like though, that's pretty big news in the sports world and it is pretty surprising they didn't interrupt programming. E: It might also depend on what's currently being aired. If it's just SportsCenter then yeah I'd have interrupted it. Do you know if ESPNNews immediately went to it?
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