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R.D. Mangles
Jan 10, 2004


the Canonical Bulls Soundtrack is roundball rock and then a bob costas monologue about whether karl malone is going to choke while looking at a blimp shot of the Delta Center

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Schremp Howard
Jul 18, 2010

What attitude problem?
I'm surprised this wasn't posted here yet

https://twitter.com/BIGJOEONTHEGO/status/1070905129459703809

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007



This is amazing

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
rutgers would beat the jordan bulls

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

They should play roundball rock at 1/2 speed for Wisconsin games

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
TAke a look, y’all:
https://twitter.com/buck/status/1071179398706053122?s=21

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


who's ready for some amazingly awkward stuff?

https://twitter.com/steelopus/status/1071222097416998913

Grittybeard
Mar 29, 2010

Bad, very bad!
I mean, if he didn't know I guess he handled that about as well as you can mid game?

Seems like a situation where there's no good way out of it.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Yeah that was plenty professional all the way around but ooof

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/RonanReigns/status/1071761834837991425

and the full montage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjdnJPENitM

it was inevitable but still

:smith:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


oh man that sign-off from Lampley :unsmith:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


ESPN is moving sunday night baseball back from an 8PM eastern start, to 7PM.

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013





Let's go to Harold Lederman for the scoring of that montage.

OK JIM!, I've got it 10-6, several great knockdowns from HBO's editing department!

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark


I guess they finally got tired of teams yelling at them and threatening to pull promos for late starts/ late getting to the next city

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Awful Announcing posted:

The entire ESPN family of networks has been synonymous with sports on television for decades now. ESPN remains the clear leader in that field, and 2018 will be no different, as it comfortably leads the pack.

More troubling, perhaps, is the fact that ESPN2 will not finish second. That’s actually never happened before; since the launch of ESPN2 in 1993 (leather-clad Keith Olbermann and all) the two networks have always finished first and second, respectively, among sports networks. Worse still for ESPN, ESPN2 is going to slide all the way to fourth, according to John Ourand at Sports Business Daily:

Even with three weeks left in the TV ratings year, it’s clear that ESPN2 will fall all the way to fourth in both prime time and total day viewership. That puts the network behind both NBCSN and FS1 — both of which posted record high viewership for their channels this year in the time period from Jan. 1-Dec. 2.

There are obviously a variety of factors here. It a World Cup year, and while the lack of an American presence definitely hurt Fox overall, it was still a boost for Fs1. And it was also an Olympic year for NBC, which obviously always plays a role:

NBCSN was helped by the Pyeongchang Olympics, which accounted for 13 of the 20 most-watched shows on the network. NBCSN also was helped by four NASCAR races and three NHL playoff games — Games 2 and 3 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Capitals and the Golden Knights; and Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final between the Capitals and the Lightning.

But “NBCSN has the Olympics” isn’t a bad thing! Too often that’s a ratings narrative, as though we shouldn’t give them credit for securing a valuable television property and reaping the benefits. In prior years, ESPN2 would have seen that World Cup boost, for example. Securing wider distribution for their cable networks and stocking them with live rights was always going to be the key to a wider market share for NBC and Fox, and it looks like they’re succeeding. (Fs1 almost finished second in 2017, as well.)

Four years ago, we wrote how NBCSN and FS1 were actually competing with ESPN2, at least in the near-term. Then and now, ESPN’s hold on the #1 spot is just about unbreakable. But as other networks pick off properties, it makes sense that ESPN2 would feel the squeeze first.

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮
Hooray for competition!

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/betmybookie/status/1071973967613837312?s=19

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1072233240553938944

neat

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/dcsportsbog/status/1072198299959132166?s=21

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1072237265898930179

lmao you're alright, Tim

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008


This seems short for how big the story was. Especially what led up to the fight and what happened after. Disappointing that they couldn't get Tyson.

Fun fact about the 42 to 1 odds. The Mirage was the only casino that actually offered bets for the fight winner and they didn't even give a poo poo if they made money from the bets. It was free advertising.

majour333
Mar 2, 2005

Mouthfart.
Fun Shoe
I usually only watch sports passively, but I'm managing 3 bars and I have to stay on top of the listings and schedules. I'm finding it difficult to quickly google things like "directv channel Celtics game" while drunks are yelling at me. The directv website has it listed as being on channel 218, but it's actually on 630.
So my questions are 1: Is there a resource that has reliable, location-specific TV listings that tell you what network is broadcasting a specific game? If I knew tonight's Celtics game was on CSNE or NBCSports I could just look the channel number up on directv. But that information is impossible to look up online - it's not on the NBA site, the directv site, or in the first few pages of Google results.
And 2: why is it like this? How is this so goddamn obtuse? And what obvious thing am I missing? I get that I need information about the NBA, NFL, nhl, mlb, pay per view fights, races and college sports, across multiple competing broadcasters, but wouldn't they all benefit with clear information at some central neutral site? A wikipedia for TV listings?
Please help.

InsensitiveSeaBass
Apr 1, 2008

You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.
Nap Ghost

majour333 posted:

I usually only watch sports passively, but I'm managing 3 bars and I have to stay on top of the listings and schedules. I'm finding it difficult to quickly google things like "directv channel Celtics game" while drunks are yelling at me. The directv website has it listed as being on channel 218, but it's actually on 630.
So my questions are 1: Is there a resource that has reliable, location-specific TV listings that tell you what network is broadcasting a specific game? If I knew tonight's Celtics game was on CSNE or NBCSports I could just look the channel number up on directv. But that information is impossible to look up online - it's not on the NBA site, the directv site, or in the first few pages of Google results.
And 2: why is it like this? How is this so goddamn obtuse? And what obvious thing am I missing? I get that I need information about the NBA, NFL, nhl, mlb, pay per view fights, races and college sports, across multiple competing broadcasters, but wouldn't they all benefit with clear information at some central neutral site? A wikipedia for TV listings?
Please help.

The local newspaper sports section should still have the TV listings. That should at least get you the big four.

angrygodofjebus
Aug 25, 2005

Drink it up and hunker down

majour333 posted:

I usually only watch sports passively, but I'm managing 3 bars and I have to stay on top of the listings and schedules. I'm finding it difficult to quickly google things like "directv channel Celtics game" while drunks are yelling at me. The directv website has it listed as being on channel 218, but it's actually on 630.
So my questions are 1: Is there a resource that has reliable, location-specific TV listings that tell you what network is broadcasting a specific game? If I knew tonight's Celtics game was on CSNE or NBCSports I could just look the channel number up on directv. But that information is impossible to look up online - it's not on the NBA site, the directv site, or in the first few pages of Google results.
And 2: why is it like this? How is this so goddamn obtuse? And what obvious thing am I missing? I get that I need information about the NBA, NFL, nhl, mlb, pay per view fights, races and college sports, across multiple competing broadcasters, but wouldn't they all benefit with clear information at some central neutral site? A wikipedia for TV listings?
Please help.

I don't know of any one single site, but usually the team specific sites are good about listing the tv/radio broadcasts. I checked the Celtics website though and it sucks?

https://www.foxsports.com/nba/boston-celtics-team-schedule at least has the networks listed if not channel numbers.

joepinetree
Apr 5, 2012

majour333 posted:

I usually only watch sports passively, but I'm managing 3 bars and I have to stay on top of the listings and schedules. I'm finding it difficult to quickly google things like "directv channel Celtics game" while drunks are yelling at me. The directv website has it listed as being on channel 218, but it's actually on 630.
So my questions are 1: Is there a resource that has reliable, location-specific TV listings that tell you what network is broadcasting a specific game? If I knew tonight's Celtics game was on CSNE or NBCSports I could just look the channel number up on directv. But that information is impossible to look up online - it's not on the NBA site, the directv site, or in the first few pages of Google results.
And 2: why is it like this? How is this so goddamn obtuse? And what obvious thing am I missing? I get that I need information about the NBA, NFL, nhl, mlb, pay per view fights, races and college sports, across multiple competing broadcasters, but wouldn't they all benefit with clear information at some central neutral site? A wikipedia for TV listings?
Please help.

Thescore will list the networks that a game is being broadcast on:

https://www.thescore.com/nba/events/134993

and they have a phone app.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
It sounds like you're in New England so you probably don't get a lot of college football requests but if you do, the greatest college football tv schedule website is, inexplicably, a LSU fan site straight out of 1996 (times all listed in central)

http://lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Dec 11, 2018

Anals of History
Jul 29, 2003

There's a service called Schedules Direct that maintains TV listings for open-source media centers like MythTV. No idea if it's a fit here, but it's what popped to mind: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Schedules_Direct

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/arvi/status/1072487566425903104

Ray Ferrarowns

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1072572978997555201

Mahoning
Feb 3, 2007

Unquestionably the best thing Baseball on ESPN has going for it. I'd put her up there with the best baseball color commentators in the business. She's not perfect and sometimes she tries too hard to overanalyze everything but she's so much better than the majority of color men that it doesn't really matter.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
That Sunday night booth is an all time awful sports broadcast but it's not her fault at all.

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

3 person booths are terrible most of the time and especially in baseball.

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/BackAftaThis/status/1072659302513602561

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.


This is beautiful and amazing.

BasicFunk
Feb 26, 2011

How's your Funkentelechy?

Mahoning posted:

Unquestionably the best thing Baseball on ESPN has going for it. I'd put her up there with the best baseball color commentators in the business. She's not perfect and sometimes she tries too hard to overanalyze everything but she's so much better than the majority of color men that it doesn't really matter.

If it wasn't for the fact that it'd rob us of having her in the booth, I'd love to see her do a "breakdown" type show. Like where she does an in-depth analysis of the big games of the day.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
Yesterday for the Champions League game between Barcelona and Tottenham, the TNT booth was color man Disco Stu Holden on play by play and NBA star and lifelong Spurs fan Steve Nash

It was, uh, something

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


Even as a barca fan I really enjoyed it. Nash has had a hard on for Barca for years now so it was an interesting situation. In terms of actual analysis it was just as cliche as every other match but I did like hearing Nash gasp after every bottled Spurs chance. Then again I still love Ray Hudson....

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

BWV posted:

Even as a barca fan I really enjoyed it. Nash has had a hard on for Barca for years now so it was an interesting situation. In terms of actual analysis it was just as cliche as every other match but I did like hearing Nash gasp after every bottled Spurs chance. Then again I still love Ray Hudson....

Nash is a pretty likable guy. If he ever needed the money, I'd welcome him replacing Jack.

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Is there a second Steve Nash or is this the pg commentating soccer games,

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Gigi Galli
Sep 19, 2003

and then the car turned in to fire

Metapod posted:

Is there a second Steve Nash or is this the pg commentating soccer games,

It's who you think it is; he's a big soccer fan.

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