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FuzzySkinner posted:Buck got his rear end booed loudly by Indians fans during the World Series watch party I was at. How he acted that series is still made fun of to this day by Clevelanders. He's a joke. Buck really needs to not call baseball. It was natural for him to start there because his father was one of the all time greats, but he just never clicked with the game or fans anywhere. Also I believe he claimed he didn't even really like the sport, so there's that too. Although I'd imagine Jim Nantz doesn't really like sports other than golf himself.
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Grittybeard posted:Buck really needs to not call baseball. It was natural for him to start there because his father was one of the all time greats, but he just never clicked with the game or fans anywhere. Nantz has said as much, pretty much implying that golfers were the last true "gentleman" or some sort of WASP-like statement quote:Whenever the subject of Jim Nantz comes up, I always bring up this interview he did with SI five years ago, in which he said this when asked about steroids in golf: His colleague Verne Lundequist on the other hand seems tremendously flexible. He was good at calling NFC Games for CBS in the 80's, Great at calling the NBA, Great at calling the NCAA, Great at SEC 'Ball, and Great at calling the Masters. Very well rounded guy, and seems like he fit in about anywhere. Hell even doing Figure Skating he didn't seem all that awkward.
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Mar 25, 2017 07:31
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Spoeank posted:Joe Buck of the last 3-4 years has been great. When I found out that he and Artie Lange are actually friends, it ruined the magic for me
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Mar 25, 2017 07:42
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I think Joe Buck is real good tbh
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Mar 25, 2017 15:07
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Gruden is fantastic what's next are you going to tell me Walton is bad?
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Mar 25, 2017 15:09
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Joe's always been better than people want to think, he's just never that excited-sounding, and Aikman is a huuuuuge anchor on him.
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Mar 25, 2017 15:09
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I understand why people think he sucks but calling him the worst sports announcer has always been insane when there's such a bounty of garbage to choose from
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Mar 25, 2017 15:30
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FuzzySkinner posted:
This is true in more ways than one.
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Mar 25, 2017 16:43
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what the gently caress, joe buck is bad
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Mar 25, 2017 17:27
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sportsgenius86 posted:The Olympics aren't even that bad. The tape delay poo poo sucks but is pretty much just the nature of the beast. And the production of everything is loving great plus the commentary for the major events is stellar. Yeah, if you take out much of the prime time approach it's not that bad But most Americans see prime time, and they need some way to recoup losses since nobody pays the IOC for tv rights as much as them, so they try to appeal to a wide audience I dunno, arguing about US Olympic tv coverage makes my head spin
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Groucho Marxist posted:I understand why people think he sucks but calling him the worst sports announcer has always been insane when there's such a bounty of garbage to choose from I watched Ronde Barber call Shaun Draughn 3 different names in one game. None of them were Shaun Draughn.
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Mar 25, 2017 19:12
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Spoeank posted:I watched Ronde Barber call Shaun Draughn 3 different names in one game. Could be worse. (That's one of those names that if you use the first name, even if you aren't the homer announcers, no one is going to hold you to it)
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R.D. Mangles posted:what the gently caress, joe buck is bad He doesn't have his own version of "The Masters" to redeem himself either. I mean, I DESPISE Nantz calling basketball, football, but that guy is a real pro at calling golf. Buck doesn't have that.
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Joe Buck is thoroughly mediocre
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ElwoodCuse posted:The Olympics are poo poo. No other country does that tape delay bullshit or assumes that unless someone from YOUR country has a shot at a medal, you don't care. Their excuse is "it gets ratings" but they've never tried it any other way so how do they know? Let's be honest that's because for almost every other country it would mean showing about 10 events. Also, I've watched the Olympics in China before and they do the exact same poo poo. Hope you enjoy weightlifting badminton and table tennis. Plus NBC does end up showing a lot of events that Americans have no shot of medaling in, it's just usually shown live. For example, badminton, table tennis, and women's archery among others all got a decent amount of air time.
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Grittybeard posted:Although I'd imagine Jim Nantz doesn't really like sports other than I wasn't sure if I should have ended the sentence after sports or not, tbh. FuzzySkinner posted:His colleague Verne Lundequist on the other hand seems tremendously flexible. He was good at calling NFC Games for CBS in the 80's, Great at calling the NBA, Great at calling the NCAA, Great at SEC 'Ball, and Great at calling the Masters. Very well rounded guy, and seems like he fit in about anywhere. Hell even doing Figure Skating he didn't seem all that awkward. Uncle Verne got his start calling TV bowling in Dallas, of all things. I fully expect our next great broadcaster is doing poo poo on Twitch or something. Adun posted:Also, I've watched the Olympics in China before and they do the exact same poo poo. Hope you enjoy weightlifting badminton and table tennis. loving do I.
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NBC hockey coverage could certainly be better but a lot of the camera angle poo poo can be attributed to arenas not being designed for hockey. There are some layouts that are just absolutely terrible for trying to set that stuff up.
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sportsgenius86 posted:NBC hockey coverage could certainly be better but a lot of the camera angle poo poo can be attributed to arenas not being designed for hockey. There are some layouts that are just absolutely terrible for trying to set that stuff up. Joe Louis Arena is a hockey only building with the worst camera placement in the league, I'm glad it's gone after this year
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Watching a televised hockey game at Barclay's Center is kind of amazing in how awkward it is
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Dallas is really bad for hockey too on tv, I think the seats are angled so that your feet are at the top of the boards instead of ice level so you can't see anything when the puck is along the glass.
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sportsgenius86 posted:NBC hockey coverage could certainly be better but a lot of the camera angle poo poo can be attributed to arenas not being designed for hockey. There are some layouts that are just absolutely terrible for trying to set that stuff up. *shows rink length wire cam where you can't see poo poo 8 times a game*
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Longtime Indians radio commentator Tom Hamilton had the 6 year-old son of Cleveland's GM in the booth with him and it led to an amazing exchange. quote:Tom Hamilton: Let me ask you, just between us and all the people listening. Dad had any phone calls lately? Who’s he trying to get? Because he won’t tell us. Can you? the audio's at the link, it's a great listen.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Joe Louis Arena is a hockey only building with the worst camera placement in the league, I'm glad it's gone after this year The Joe has the best camera placement, except when people are standing up.
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DJExile posted:Watching a televised hockey game at Barclay's Center is kind of amazing in how awkward it is The Mausoleum was just as lovely, the camera stand was on the blue line
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Am I horrible for not liking Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley doing CBB? Kenny Smith seems to keep having the homer goggles on for UNC in the manner I saw the NFL TODAY crew had their homer goggles for their various former AFC North teams (sans Cleveland...) Barkley just seems clueless. He kept framing the KU-Purdue game in a manner that seemed to present KU as some freak of nature athletic juggernaut that Purdue didn't deserve to share the floor with. (This despite the fact that Purdue was competitive and leading most of the first half in a game that was a relative home game for KU in Kansas City). I generally love these guys doing the NBA, but they seem a bit lost and out of place doing the NCAA.
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I couldn't tell you one way or the other about Smith, but Barkley clearly hasn't done any research and doesn't give a poo poo about college ball
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ElwoodCuse posted:Joe Louis Arena is a hockey only building with the worst camera placement in the league, I'm glad it's gone after this year No it's good when a person standing up in the 12th row can block 70 percent of the ice from the camera deck.
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People got in a huff last night because a station in Columbus cut away from the UNC/Kentucky game to a black screen with a tornado warning ticker for six minutes. Station was having technical difficulties but from what I saw the ticker was working, the video itself was just black and there was no audio. Two tornadoes touched down in the area (one in the West and one in the North).
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soggybagel posted:No it's good when a person standing up in the 12th row can block 70 percent of the ice from the camera deck. Case in point, a couple of guys blocked the camera just before a famous goal https://youtu.be/tRoNqiiY6Lg?t=82
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Vertical Lime posted:Case in point, a couple of guys blocked the camera just before a famous goal I'd completely forgotten that Gretzky was on that Blues team, hell almost forgotten he was ever on the Blues. Let alone that his kinda lazy puck play led directly to Yzerman's goal.
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soggybagel posted:No it's good when a person standing up in the 12th row can block 70 percent of the ice from the camera deck.  Because gently caress the Red Wings. (real talk: that's really bad)
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Akileese posted:People got in a huff last night because a station in Columbus cut away from the UNC/Kentucky game to a black screen with a tornado warning ticker for six minutes. Station was having technical difficulties but from what I saw the ticker was working, the video itself was just black and there was no audio. Two tornadoes touched down in the area (one in the West and one in the North). Yeah it was rough all around. it was right at the end of the game so I can understand initial frustration but when you've got legit touchdowns you've got to let people know.
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Akileese posted:People got in a huff last night because a station in Columbus cut away from the UNC/Kentucky game to a black screen with a tornado warning ticker for six minutes. Station was having technical difficulties but from what I saw the ticker was working, the video itself was just black and there was no audio. Two tornadoes touched down in the area (one in the West and one in the North). 
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Akileese posted:People got in a huff last night because a station in Columbus cut away from the UNC/Kentucky game to a black screen with a tornado warning ticker for six minutes. Station was having technical difficulties but from what I saw the ticker was working, the video itself was just black and there was no audio. Two tornadoes touched down in the area (one in the West and one in the North). Ohio is unusual. Up north? A tornado largely doesn't do a lot of damage. Where I live the biggest I've seen happen is trees being knocked over or something like that. South? Yeah they're deadly. Dayton area and towards Indiana gets a lot of bad ones. This is awful to say...but I think I'd be in the "mad online" camp if this happened to me in Cleveland/Akron/Canton.
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Toledo got an EF5 a few years ago. They're ordinarily not the worst but I still wouldn't gently caress with them
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DJExile posted:Toledo got an EF5 a few years ago. They're ordinarily not the worst but I still wouldn't gently caress with them I guess it helps I live in area called "Summit" where the name of it's largest city is named after the Greek word for "Summit". But yeah, that's a bit alarming for that to happen in Toledo.
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I had a tornado touch down in my hometown on loving Long Island and it was goddamn terrifying. If you're bitching about a basketball game you deserve to have your house sucked up into Oz
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Teemu Pokemon posted:I had a tornado touch down in my hometown on loving Long Island and it was goddamn terrifying. If you're bitching about a basketball game you deserve to have your house sucked up into Oz Eh, you kinda learn to live with them? Or live with the idea that you might die if everything goes wrong at least. My folks lived about 1/4 mile from where the Ruskin Heights tornado hit, which understandably terrified them about tornadoes. So as a kid growing up when sirens went off we headed to the basement no matter what, but other than waiting for an all clear there didn't seem to be a whole lot of value in listening to weather guys breathlessly talk about poo poo. Basically the sirens do the job of getting the word out in midwestern cities if you respect them, and like a minute break in programming should be enough to tell people to go to the safest place they can.
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Grittybeard posted:Eh, you kinda learn to live with them? Or live with the idea that you might die if everything goes wrong at least. My folks lived about 1/4 mile from where the Ruskin Heights tornado hit, which understandably terrified them about tornadoes. So as a kid growing up when sirens went off we headed to the basement no matter what, but other than waiting for an all clear there didn't seem to be a whole lot of value in listening to weather guys breathlessly talk about poo poo. I think using the cellphone EAS is far more effective. That or a screen crawl with those little maps I've seen used during telecasts. Honestly EAS's fascinate me to no end, I'm kinda intrigued by the more "we're doomed" oriented ones for some reason.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I think using the cellphone EAS is far more effective. I will always love the CNN/Turner "ONLY RUN IN CASE OF APOCALYPSE" video
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