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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:44 PM
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Poll question: Would you prefer televised sports not have announcers?
This isn't just about the Faux fux — most announcers take away from a game, I think, and only the very good ones add anything to one.

I'd love it if they just put up graphics with the pertinent information and let us hear the sounds of the game.

Note that this would not work well on radio.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:45 PM
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1. and no human interest camera shots
just show the damn field from a nice wide angle view
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:48 PM
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4. Sometimes you need the big lenses
Y'know, you wanna see a close play for yourself, or if an outfielder trapped a ball. Stuff like that.

But, yeah — I could do without endless shots of half-nekkid, face-painted fans and kids off their Ritalin.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:46 PM
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2. Just let me watch and see for myself...if I have TV access.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:46 PM
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3. Never mind!!!!!!!
Edited on Sun Oct-28-07 10:49 PM by Writer
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:49 PM
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5. ROFL!
Edited on Sun Oct-28-07 10:50 PM by Oeditpus Rex
Not having a good brain night, are we? :rofl:

:hi:
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:50 PM
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6. Hey - Coco Crisp YOU!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:54 PM
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8. I'm more
the Cap'n Crunch type. :D
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:56 PM
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9. Cap'n Crunch?
I didn't know you batted both ways, friend. ;)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:58 PM
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10. Do you mean to imply
that the good Cap'n was a non-heterosexual?



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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 11:05 PM
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12. Hardy har har, yer swabbin' the deck, matey!
Whichever way the wind blows yer longjohns.
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 10:53 PM
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7. It'd have to be conditional on the announcer.
If I never hear Joe Buck utter another word, I'll be deliriously happy, but I enjoy the hell out of Ray Fosse, whose humor and knowledge about the game are always, always entertaining (and informative).
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 11:00 PM
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11. Just because so many announcers suck is no reason to can the entire concept
Good announcers enhance the experience and they *do* exist. Take John McEnroe for example. He might be kind of curmudgeonly but the man knows tennis and adds a lot of insight when he covers a match. I wouldn't want to get him off the air.

The Fox announcers shouldn't be allowed to ruin it for people like McEnroe.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-28-07 11:06 PM
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13. That was tried once
Back in the 70's (about). They did a football game with no announcers. They only did one.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 05:06 AM
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16. 1980 or '81
NBC tried it with a 'B' football game — one that wasn't gonna get good ratings anyway. It did okay for the first quarter; I guess people tuned in for the novelty.

Anyway, for what it's worth, here's something Salon's King Kaufman wrote a couple of years ago:


As much as we all love to talk about who should be the announcer for this or that broadcast and how good or bad various announcers are, I've long maintained that announcers don't mean much to fans.

We're used to having them there, so not having them is something that would take some getting used to. A game with stadium or arena noise and no announcers just sounds kind of awkward to ears trained to either listen to or selectively tune out the omnipresent chatter that's accompanied action since the medium was new.

And make no mistake: We'll never have the chance to get used to such a thing. Announcers aren't there to provide insight and analysis or to identify players and describe action. They're required to do all those things, and we judge them on how well they do them.

But their primary purpose is to read promos. The networks and sponsors aren't giving that up. We're stuck with announcers for as long as we're stuck with money.

http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2005/08/24/wednesday/index.html
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 04:27 AM
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14. No - but they should all be like cricket commentators
There's little so delightful in life as the languid commentary of a 5-day test match - the radio commentators on Test Match Special are even better, there birds on the outfield, cakes sent to them by listeners, breakfast in their hotel that morning &c.&c. all take on far more importance than the match, it's just like folk chatting gently for a few hours - sublime, utterly sublime.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 04:35 AM
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15. I don't mind play by play
but the chit chat makes me want to barf. There are very few sports announcers who can make interesting chit chat (and not repeat the same fucking thing every 5 minutes)
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 05:19 AM
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17. If you do away with the blow-dried TV actors smiling pretty for the camera
and replace them with who ever is doing the radio play-by-play. I love to turn down the sound on the TV and listen to the radio crew do a big game. I don't give a shit about the inane tidbits the TV crew gets fed into their earpieces.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 06:10 AM
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18. Whenever that's an option
that's how I watch a ball game. Radio guys are much better than teevee guys.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 09:08 AM
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19. Back in the 1980s, we would turn down the TV and listen to
Sonny, Sam and Frank announce Redskins Games over the radio......
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 09:10 AM
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20. Eh some of them are crap but I like it most of the time...
I also like the shots of the fans once in a while... yesterday we were amused to read a Liverpool fan's lips as he asked one of the guys "what the fuck was that?!" after a particularly crappy... well I don't know if it was supposed to be a pass or a cross or what, but it was definitely crap.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 09:27 AM
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21. My son watched with the sound muted..unless it;s Telemundo soccer
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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 09:47 AM
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22. There are sports, well most say it's not a sport, where the announcing is sometimes more
interesting than the sport itself.


Poker with Norman Chad,Gabe Kaplan etc.... for example
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 10:34 AM
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23. I just mute it anyway.
If I feel the need for commentary, I turn on the radio. Listening to Mike Shannon's drunken ramblings for three hours is enough to make anyone smile.
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 10:39 AM
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24. I'd rather they were not televised..... nt
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 10:42 AM
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25. Don and Remdawg
Here in New England, we have the best local announcing team in sports, Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy of New England Sports Network. Remy, a former Sox and Angels 2nd baseman and a Mass native, brings a remarkably knowledgable insiders perspective, Orsillo is a smooth play by play guy, and the two have a quirky chemistry that makes every game that much better.
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 10:58 AM
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26. I'd eliminate 95% of "analysts" and just have two play by play people
Considering that most analysts are, well, less than insightful, I'd just have two decent, knowledgeable play by play people to call a game.
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