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Fox Sports' marketing strongly suggests that they think the problem with ESPN is that it's too serious and smart, which is kind of baffling.
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General Dog posted:Joe Buck doesn't suck because he's monotone, Pat Summerall was monotone and he was great. Joe Buck sucks because his utter contempt for everything going on in front of him is so obvious. I never liked Summerall much for the same reason. He'd have caught a lot of the same sort of poo poo if he hadn't been paired with someone so beloved. Plus by the time internet criticism of announcers became a thing he was already either gone or very close to being on the way out, so he'd already become an institution because of how long he'd been around and the video game. LordPants posted:Ladies and Gentlemen, the I haven't regularly watched it in years but there was a time when this was legitimately my favorite show on TV. Like I'd DVR it every single day during football season when I had practice late so I'd never miss an episode. They tend to have pretty awful sports opinions, but they're both fairly entertaining personalities (especially Tony) and the chemistry between them is great and really carries the show. Unfortunately the show also has kind of destroyed ESPN because the lesson they took from its success is that they need more people shouting at each other. MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Aug 19, 2013 |
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That show was the weirdest loving thing when it first started out and it was just Dan and his dad who barely watched sports or understood what was going on hanging out in his kitchen.
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Aug 19, 2013 15:15
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Total pro aside from all those female coworkers he sexually harassed, yes.
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Aug 20, 2013 05:54
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Quest For Glory II posted:COLOR COMMENTATORS, on the other hand, yikes. I dont know how they can be so good at finding people to call the games and so bad at finding people to analyze them. There's nothing pleasant beyond the A teams (Gruden, Herbstreit). I think Chris Speilman is best color guy in any sport. They have some good basketball guys too, most notably Bilas.
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Aug 20, 2013 15:01
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Yeah Walton now that he's in full on don't give a gently caress mode is really funny. I liked when they let him do some Pac-12 games this year.
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Aug 20, 2013 15:06
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FuzzySkinner posted:What's SAS consensus on Little League World Series coverage? It's really weird.
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Aug 21, 2013 00:47
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Also the nonstop talk about how Pure and For The Right Reasons it is makes me want to hate a bunch of 12 year olds and that's just not a good look.
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Aug 21, 2013 05:46
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The answer to what they should air is always Team Handball. I have no idea when the season actually is but neither does anyone else. Just throw it on whenever you have nothing else. No one is going to know better. Either that or more replays of World's Strongest Man.
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Aug 21, 2013 05:52
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get the gently caress out of my forum you awful nerds
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Aug 21, 2013 19:24
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All remaining tapes of any Heat/Knicks game from the mid to late 90s should be destroyed for the good of all mankind.
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Aug 22, 2013 06:35
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Stop watching First Take you loving moron.
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Aug 22, 2013 19:07
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So change the channel. Everyone already knows that first take is stupid. It is designed to be intentionally stupid. You are not breaking new ground.
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Aug 22, 2013 19:09
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He meant Skip Bayless and made a typo that people have subsequently made fun I mean dang, dude, there are not that many grown men going by "Skip" out there.
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Aug 25, 2013 00:54
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"It did not make me spontaneously burst into flames" raves MourningView of Sports Argument Stadium
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Aug 25, 2013 22:24
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oh em gee bee ess posted:I mute the television every time Gus Johnson commentates on a Champions League game because he is so utterly poo poo at it. I get that it's his thing to raise his voice at every single thing but his style of commentating doesn't work for football at all. No, it's actually really awesome for football, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTV-uUkXTbw
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Aug 29, 2013 16:27
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A hail mary is not a mundane thing at all, I'm not sure you actually watched that video!
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Aug 29, 2013 16:34
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Generally speaking I feel like he gets excited mostly for exciting things. Sports are very exciting!
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Aug 29, 2013 16:39
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BIZORT posted:NFL Pregame shows are still a bunch of guys just sitting around laughing? Didn't Robert Smigel or someone like him do a cartoon parodying all of those pregame shows and it was literally just them laughing the entire time? I haven't watched one of those programs in years and I've been out of the country for almost 5 years Generally their idea of fixing it has been to add even more people to talk over each other. Football on the west coast kinda sucks, but at least that dumb poo poo is mostly over by the time I wake up.
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Aug 30, 2013 14:52
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Peanut President posted:I can't hate Vitale. I will never ever hate a commentator who is having fun calling a game. His heart is in the right place but in practice he's really bad.
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Sep 1, 2013 16:35
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I'm sure Vitale is a super nice dude he's just not good at analyzing basketball games and is a parody of himself. I remember one game a couple years ago where a player dove over the table for a lose ball and clobbered his partner, forcing Vitale to go it alone for the two most horrifying minutes ESPN has ever broadcast. He does seem like he's having fun though so good for him.
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Sep 2, 2013 05:14
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I dunno have y'all heard Colin's nerd voice? Pretty excited for that comedic gem to get the wide audience it deserves.
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Sep 5, 2013 14:50
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Tearing down the conference in this case meaning "accurately describing how terrible it is"
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Sep 13, 2013 04:07
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FuzzySkinner posted:potentially dangerous This is a thing you just said about sports media coverage
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Sep 13, 2013 15:48
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Vertical Lime posted:Also, Beadle is on far from gracious terms with her former NBCSN co-host. I don't blame her for going back at this point. To be fair is anything on that channel aside from football and live UFC a draw?
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DJExile posted:Onrait and O'Toole I think they're good at what they do, but aren't they getting absolutely destroyed in the ratings so far? Anyway, on the college pregame thing, I don't think anyone is going to be able to seriously challenge Gameday. That's a really well done show for what it is, and it's an institution at this point. Being on campus when that show is in town is crazy, and I think most big college football fans are just in the habit of flipping it on as soon as they wake up.
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Sep 28, 2013 00:18
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I don't really know that there's some special qualification you need to meet to do that job, but he's written about the sport for a prominent outlet forever. That doesn't mean that he's going to be good on TV, but there's no rule that you need to be a former player to do it.
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Sep 30, 2013 17:49
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Reece Davis is extremely good at his job and deserves a lot better than what they've saddled him with. In general I think college football is the thing ESPN handles the best (and they're much better at it than any of their competitors), but May and Holtz are probably the worst parts of it.
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Dec 2, 2013 06:21
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AceFace905 posted:In The System College Gameday is basically presented as the best thing about college football (that and the rise of Ziggy Ansah), and a lot of the credit goes to how good Rece Davis is at his job. He's not on college gameday so that's pretty impressive! I assume they were talking about Chris Fowler, who is also really good at his job.
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Dec 2, 2013 15:56
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leokitty posted:If they don't everyone who really cares will use streams and the US is probably only getting one medal (ice dance) so it's less exciting than usual. The US is not even remotely competitive in men and pairs and getting a medal in the ladies event is very unlikely. Yeah but Everyone's Mom is still gonna watch.
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Dec 20, 2013 07:47
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He genuinely had no idea what he was talking about when it came to technical stuff, but that's not really what he was there for, he was there to get excited when exciting poo poo happened. And the pushing Kimbo Slice as a superstar thing was on CBS, not him. That was the guy they were building everything around, so of course the voice of the company is going to pump him up.
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Quest For Glory II posted:CBS also has no backup plan now if Verne's heart ever explodes, which isn't unrealistic. They have a bunch of NFL guys they could switch over if they really needed to.
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Jan 14, 2014 18:12
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Benne posted:My favorite part about the Final Four is when Nantz does the Masters promos and you can tell by his voice that he's getting aroused. He is legitimately way more excited to talk about the Masters than he is to call a buzzer beater. Him calling the Final Four while Gus Johnson, who personifies everything great about March Madness, sat on the bench was an embarassing misuse of resources.
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Jan 14, 2014 21:58
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Oh no, I guess I'll have to continue never watching Fox Sports 1, said everyone on earth.
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Feb 10, 2014 22:02
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DJExile posted:A commenter on deadspin just shared an amazing story about Bob. wait do I need to like bob costas now
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Feb 11, 2014 17:01
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If you show me footage of Nantz pounding tallboys I will melt.
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Feb 11, 2014 17:35
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As long as we acknowledge that Musburger would have shotguned it or somehow produced a beer bong from under the desk.
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Feb 11, 2014 23:03
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If you're trying to talk me into liking Harold Reynolds it's not going to work.
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Feb 12, 2014 01:35
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Yeah well Everyone's Mom disagrees and there are more of them than you.
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maybe y'all should get a goddamn job instead of watching curling all day
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