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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:27 PM
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Most annoying sports casting "innovation"
All from Fox, BTW ...

The blue fairy hockey puck ...

The piss yellow first down line ...

The flying Fox camera ..

The lead-off-first-base-o-meter they just showed?

I vote for the last, but all really piss me off.
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:28 PM
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1. i believe the yellow line was used before fox
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:28 PM
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2. i actually like the first down line
especially when, once in a blue moon, the refs get it wrong, usually off by 5 yards.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:32 PM
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3. Don't forget Sound FX going into and out of replays
Makes a ballgame sound like an episode of Batman.
Another reason why Ruprecht Murdok must have all his assets siezed and be deported when we regain the White House.
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:33 PM
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4. Oh yeah ...
Plus the Transformer-BattleBots logos ... but if I got into all that stuff, the list would be too damn long! :)
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:35 PM
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5. The neon hockey puck by far
It actually made me watch less hockey.

I like the yellow first-down line and the flying camera. It's just too bad I don't like the game of pro football.
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ProudGerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:35 PM
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6. Wait till Fox implements the glowing red strike zone
And it will be shown for each batter, and be the size that the rule books say it is. Then we can all get even madder at umps who feel they have the power to say what is a strike and what isn't. Strike zones are NOT wider than the plate, and they DO go above the navel.

Can you tell I'm a bit sick of their being a different strike zone for each ump....sometimes several strike zones PER ump?
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:41 PM
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7. the lead-off-first-base-o-meter?!
Edited on Fri Apr-16-04 08:49 PM by Bertha Venation
Christ . . . isn't the DH bad enough?

I say the worst thing ever to happen to baseball broadcasting is Joe Morgan. He's the worst. Joe Morgan is the worst. For baseball broadcasting, no one's worse than Joe Morgan.

(did anyone get that?)
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:46 PM
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8. So you're saying ...
You like Joe Morgan? :D
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:50 PM
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10. heh
I'd rather listen to Howard Cosell, John Madden, and Dennis Miller, all calling the same game, than listen to Joe Morgan.

Putting aside the fact that some ballplayers should never become broadcasters, Joe just can't call a game without repeating every phrase about forty times.
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:52 PM
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11. I think it is a Joe thing ..
Edited on Fri Apr-16-04 08:52 PM by NewHampshireDem
Joe Theisman is an @$$hole ... he's so pissed off and bitter about his broken leg all he does is rag on the current players. Plus, he's never gotten over the Red Skins/Cowboys rivalry.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:54 PM
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12. that could be... a Joe thing... it could also be
that Morgan's repeating himself is a tic, the verbal equivalent of the cocked elbow cranking up fifteen times as he awaited a pitch. :shrug:
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:56 PM
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14. Do you remember that catcher the Mets had ...
he had a tic, couldn't throw the ball back to the mound without cocking his arm about half a dozen times ... didn't last long :O
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:59 PM
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17. No!
Weird! I do remember Mark Fydrich, though. "The Bird." Talked to the mound, patted it, babied it. He didn't last long either, but only because he didn't have what it took to stay great.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:47 PM
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9. Dennis Miller - and -
Rush Limbaugh

Halftime highlights instead of showing the marching bands at College Football halftime.
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NewHampster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:54 PM
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13. The lead-off-first-base-o-meter Has To Go
The letter writing starts now.

How dumb. At least the first down line gives us a reference we may not otherwise have.

This thing tells me squat.

Oh wait! A-rod is 3" further than last time, but Tim A-Rod never steals unless he's 6'9" or more from first. He's only 6'8" so there's no way he's running.

give me a break.
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:58 PM
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16. BTW ..
I now own the trademark and copyright on the name "lead-off-first-base-o-meter" (r)(c), so you owe me a nickel.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 08:57 PM
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15. I would say television... radio is much better
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-04 09:23 PM
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18. Awful rugs
pioneered by Howard Cosell.

Raised to an art form by Marv Albert.
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