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marioinblack posted:Doc can be annoying at times because his commentary will be a massive run on sentence. A lot of this is just the nature of the sport though.
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Mornacale posted:I don't watch fighting much so I have no opinion on Gus Johnson, but I strongly doubt that he just decided on his own to push a human interest angle. Seems like a problem with the broadcaster. Yeah people blame him for a lot of stuff that was on the network. Like pushing Kimbo hardcore was because CBS was building their MMA coverage around him and wanted to make him a star. Ho Chi Meeeeee posted:I suggest you all watch a European broadcast of the NFL sometime, it is loving hilarious the amount of punditry during games. It seriously made me miss commercials. It owns. It's always like a generically good looking British guy who has clearly only been watching for a few weeks, an obligatory British analyst with dubious qualifications, and obscure America small college coach or former player who is terrible on TV but somehow got a job analyzing football overseas. I want to parlay my few months of college football into being a British NFL or college football analyst so bad.
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Definitely relevant to the topic of sports broadcasting, thank you for contributing.
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Much more than they give a poo poo about loving NASCAR, yes. I swear to god at least a third of the posts in this thread are you complaining about them not covering cars driving in circles enough.
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Actually it is Kevin Durant now, let's argue about it.
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Badfinger posted:In that year it was LeBron James, too. In this year it should probably end up being LeBron James, because he is the best basketball player in the world. Durant is awfully good this year though, so he will win the MVP because everyone would die of boredom and spite if the best player in the NBA, LeBron James, won the MVP every year. Durant winning this year would not just be a case of people being bored with LeBron. I mean people yelling on ESPN in general is really dumb, but debating the MVP award isn't inherently dumb or wrong. It's the most prestigious individual award in the sport. Of course people who follow basketball care.
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I took this thread to a bad place and I apologize. As great as it was when it started Pardon the Interruption totally destroyed ESPN. Once it became a sort of hit they just filled their network with nothing but debate stuff with increasingly worse returns until eventually we wound up with First Take.
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That camera almost killed Marvin McNutt one time so it can go gently caress itself.
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DJExile posted:Hahaha what was this? I must have missed it. He got thrown out of Notre Dame for stealing his roommate's credit card.
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R.D. Mangles posted:Someone make a new horse racing thread that's just one poster endlessly and incomprehensibly posting to himself. That was secretly a top-10 SAS thread. I think I goldmined it. I was so mad when someone else posted in it. I should have probated them.
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soggybagel posted:WHAT. Sharpe is gone? So sad! Did he do something cool I somehow missed that everyone loves him for now? Because that dude is loving horrible on TV. He is literally bad at talking.
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Brett Favre can't take a studio job, he needs to keep working out in case someone needs the ol' gunslinger to ride again.
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Sash! posted:Aside from this business, which always seemed like it was asking for trouble: http://goo.gl/maps/ssA2o Erie was a pretty miserable place all around. This is like the store I would have opened when I was 8. Or now, honestly.
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Sash! posted:To make it a bit stranger, it had two locations. But only one said "Karate Supplies" on the side. The second one has since been turned into a fireworks and jelly beans store (http://goo.gl/maps/nSvVm), which might be the single most unusual business anywhere. Karate, Fireworks, AND Jellybeans? That dude is living the dream.
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R.D. Mangles posted:ESPN desperately needs to bump Burke up to analyst and let Simmons be a sideline reported who can be regularly posterized by Poppovich. Burke is so good, but it'll never happen, sadly.
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Legler played in the NBA off and on for a long time as a three point specialist. He won the three point shootout and was runner up for 6th man of the year one year. I guess I don't know what you think qualifies someone to talk about basketball on TV, but he's not just some random dude. Stan Van Gundy is coach/GM for the Pistons now. Mark Jackson should be neither commenting on the NBA nor coaching it.
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Yeah I think Breen is pretty good. I can't think of a better basketball pbp guy at ESPN. Maybe Shulman I guess, but he's their lead college and MLB guy. Van Gundy can be okay sometimes and awful others. I wish they could talk Doug Collins into doing color again, at least for the playoffs. Or Walton because he's at least fun, but I think he's happy just doing random college games.
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the culminator posted:That coaches commentary they had on ESPNews during FSU-Auburn this years was fantastic and they should do stuff like that more. It got awful ratings as I recall.
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They're Ancient, I don't know what else you want.
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AsInHowe posted:By the way, ESPN dropped the ScoreCenter app to get everyone to use the SportsCenter app, which is a huge downgrade. Scorecenter was horrible anyway. Yahoo and especially CBS have way better score apps
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Mornacale posted:I think Sportscenter is a perfectly fine show to have on while you're eating breakfast or chilling in the waiting room or surfing the web and would like to get a nice overview of what's going on in the sports world. Yeah it's fine. I put it on pretty much every morning. It's definitely not even close to the biggest problem ESPN has.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Anybody investigated 120 Sports at all? Here's a sample video: http://www.120sports.com/video/v82270974/kobe-the-recruiter This is really really bad.
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Reminder that Terry Bradshaw was once cast as Matthew McConaughey's dad in a major motion picture.
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Crion posted:The gently caress is this A joke playing off how "drilled" can mean multiple things. Some people even use as slang for....*hushed tones* sex
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Crion posted:Thanks for explaining the unfunny joke that had already been done once upthread, MorningView, but I was actually asking more about the paternity lawsuit part Well sex is where babies come from. I don't think it was the world's funniest joke but it doesn't really seem worth making a stink about. MourningView fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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He's not all bad, he gave the world this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIm_41OIOM
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DJExile posted:lol what did you do to get that title That seems self explanatory.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:I want to see him ask a black athlete if he's playing for all of Africa next I'm pretty sure that question was because he played for Iowa, not because he was white, although those things very often overlap. It was very silly either way, but the birth of Ricky Stanzi: Patriot made it worth it.
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I have like three love it or leave it shirts purchased from sketchy t-shirt vendors while in some state of inebriation.
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Sash! posted:Is there any other kind? Well there is like the official team store, and then there is the guy on the corner with them haphazardly stuffed into a duffel bag, screaming at everyone who passes. Coincidentally that guy usually has the better shirts, although it is really hard to find a social situation where it's okay to wear an IOWA loving CITY t-shirt.
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Erin is actually about as good at that dumb job as you can be so she's sort of a weird way to prove that point.
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FuzzySkinner posted:http://deadspin.com/keith-olbermann...dium=socialflow He's good when he has a worthy target. He can still be an obnoxious rear end in a top hat a lot of the time.
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Thaddius the Large posted:B) I will never be able to take seriously a grown man who goes my Skipper, unless he is actively on the bridge of a seafaring vessel. No, it doesn't matter that it's actually his name. It's his last name and he's also given Simmons more or less everything he's asked for in the past.
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DJExile posted:So we're just ignoring the Thursday night game then? It's on CBS now, at least for part of the season. Monday Night, on the other hand.
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davecrazy posted:MNF is over the air in the local markets of the teams playing. So in Thursday, apparently! Huh. I had no idea, having never lived in a market with a team.
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DJExile posted:The only time we get any attention is for presidential elections because we're the main swing city in a swing state. It's as exciting as it sounds boring place with an unreasonable influence on the electoral process high five
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Declan MacManus posted:Actually Grant Hill and Chris Webber are both excellent and I wish Webber would replace Kerr fulltime Grant Hill is one of the most boring people alive but Webber is really good on color.
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