I saw this yesterday. I like the post about when I say "fisted" be the 1st to call and win an I-phone. My friends and I would take shots when he would say fisted during the Tigers v Twins game. He'd say it at least once every 1.5 innings or so.

God Dilfer is the worst. How can they fire a source of pure comedy like Emmit and keep this corpse around.

They fired Emmitt? I wondered why I didn't see him anymore. What happened?

Well it probably was because he was the most incompetent commentator in the history of broadcasting. THat was his charm, but the guy could barely put a sentence together, and dropped malapropisms basically every time he spoke. That was his charm for me, but ESPN execs probably weren't down with the whole "laughing at the hall of famer" thing the rest of us were into. I also miss Michael Irvin, who is hilarious, and isn't afraid to call people out and to talk blatant shit to other announcers. I remember I think it was with Tom Jackson, they had a disagree ment about something, and he just blatantly said to TJ " OH yeah.. well how many rings you got, 'cause I got 3" or something on that order, and just bitched him down. It was hysterical

Irvin was great too.

On monday nights, I usually listen to the 2nd half of MNF on the radio. It's commentated by Marv Albert and Boomer Esiasson. Boomer is another one of those guys that "tells it like it is". I didn't like him at first but he grew on me. He gets into it with Marv all the time and I like when he puts that panty wearer into his place.

I could listen to Marv Albert read the phone book.

The sports guy sent out this tweet ( and really, this is what I love twitter for.. comedian's one liners, and porn star debauchery.)

Notre Dame announcers on NBC.

Also, I am truly disappointed that they took down the fake Chip Caray twitter.

yeah, I didn't even get a chance to see it. What a shocker that Chip caray has no sense of humor about himself.

So, I sent matthew berry, espn fantasy sports " expert" a couple of snarky tweets last week

@therealtmr how did a comedy (loose usage) writer ever become taken seriously as a sports analyst. what a joke

@therealtmr Nice read on Braylon and the fin's back field. How about you stick to what you're good at and go write Tropic Thunder 2


So today, I went to send him a real tweet, about if I should start mccoy or maclin ( which is a real stumper for me), and I noticed he was off my list.. confused, I went directly to his twitter page, and he had apparently blocked me. Apparently he's pretty sensitive about his b-movie writing career.

Wow thats hilarious.

Lol. I love it. I watch that morning fantasy football show they do every sunday at 1130am est on ESPN2. I had my lineup set last week prior to watching the show, but decided at the last minute (1250 or so) to change a few of my starters due to their recommendations. Suffice it to say, the guys that I changed out (Burleson for Mason; Redskins for Jets D/ST, Benson for Westbrook) had great days and the guys I put in totaled 8 f*cking points opposed to 47 that I took out.

From now on I am going with my hunch every weekend. Go f*ck yourself Matthew Berry, Kuselias, and Hasselbeck.

Edit: 53pts were left on my bench because I changed those players

I really like the MNF crew this year. The addition of Chucky Gruden adds life and knowledge to the cast. I already liked Jaws & the Ann Arbor guy Mike Tirico.

posted twice, I'ma noob.

Dilfer just called the broncos a classy football team. Facepalms all around there. First of all, does he really need to say football.. can't he just say "team" or better yet, " the broncos are classy" I think we know that they are both a team, and that they play football. No one's going to think Dilfer is talking about a minor league baseball team or something.

Second, and most importantly.. what the **** exactly is so "classy" about the Broncos. What does classy even mean? I hate that adjective attached to teams.. that's a meaningless word that is used for teams that are good, that haven't had their warts exposed to the public yet. You never hear a losing team described as classy. I've seen plenty of photo's of Orton at play, and classy isn't a word i'd use for him.

I hate 95% of ESPN analyst. They are all pretty much equally terrible.

Any play by play or color announcer that has no clue what the difference is between an end around and a reverse. I mean are you kidding me, this is stuff you learn when your 8 years old. Also why do some announcers keep calling it a hook and ladder. Where is the ladder on the field. Its a hook and lateral. Last but not least is the use of the word "referees" during a game. They are not all referees. There is only one referee on the field (the guy in the white hat that enforces the penalites). They are officials plain and simple, they all have different titles, please use them accordingly. The main reason this irritates me so much is because people listen to these guys and repeat this misinformation and it just gets on my nerves. I think that all annoucners should have to pass a basic test, on the sport they are annoucing. Nothing hard just basic terminology and and rules so they can pass the right info on to the fans watching the game. It would make the games more enjoyable to watch overall.

And Brandon Marshall, on and off the field.

The Magic Run. Genius.

When asked about the saints, the first thing Scharlith said was " The saints are one of the most complete football teams in the national football league" That, in one single sentence, encapsulates everything I hate about bad sports analysts. That sentence was a big pile of nothing. Just ****ing garbage, killing a few seconds of face time. Any fan knows that the saints are a balanced team. They also know that the saints is both a team, and plays football. We also know what league they play in. And we also know what hte NFL stands for, so you don't need to say " the National... football.. league" in an overly dramatic, extended way. I know these are just little things, but jesus they tilt me. How is schlarith on national tv. He should be doing bad local radio in east Lansing or something.

So you know how LeBatard rails against "pukey analysis," but also loves the Hurricanes? They play this clip of Michael Irvin a lot where he says in an overly dramatic way, "In order to be great, you must win the games you're expected to win...and win the games nobody gives you a chance to win."

It used to drive me crazy because they played it during those coming back from commercial break segments and they never said anything about it. Finally, maybe a week or two ago, Dan started ripping that quote. Now I can hear that sound bite and not get annoyed.

Also, I'm not sure just how much or how often you listen to him, but they've started playing the Stan Van Gundy heavy breath during interviews whenever somebody responds with a cliché or meaningless analysis. It's pretty great because it doesn't intrude on the interview and the interviewee doesn't realize it.

I would guess that I listen to just about every minute of the show they have on podcast. I'm not always paying close attention, but I listen to it when I work out, and other times besides when I'm on the computer. I think that heavy breathing thing is just great. I wish they would get max kellerman's old guest, Typical Football Analyst Guy... he would be perfect for that show.

i love hubie brown and marv albert together when they used to do play by play together brown and alberts insight on the game is fantastic and it shows in there commentary

and i can do without jon barry

Not sure why he hasn't been mentioned (maybe he has), but I absolutely can't stand Stephen A. Smith. Everything that comes out of his mouth.......it's because of race. This tilts the hell out of me.

iTunes? That's what I use and I haven't heard Roy's Top Ten this whole week. I'm thinking maybe because they do it right after commercial breaks, it gets cut off?

And I can't not watch a baseball playoff game without thinking about the Magic Run. It really is the most exciting thing baseball could ever do.

They had a couple earlier in the week, but I didn't hear one on wednesday.

Wow, I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned either. I can't stand him because he is always yelling & well, a know it all.

What do you guys think about the two brothers (Doug & Ryan Stewart) that are sometimes on with Skip Bayless on that show 1st and 10. I think they are also on Sporting News radio, called 2 Live Stews. These guys are as annoying as anything. They feel that whatever they say regarding anything is the "end all be all" and is 100% correct and there is no other opinion that is worth a sh*t. Plus they yell their opinions at whomever is opposing them with a differing viewpoint, 90% percent of the time is Skip Bayless.

I think Skip takes the opposite side of topics than these idiots just to see them get upset, blather, and yell.

Also, the Big Ten Network crew. Bad.

I cant watch Skip Bayless speak for more than a few seconds before I want to reach through the TV and strangle him.

I know I'm in the minority ( so to speak ) But I love Stephen A smith. Not really so much what he says, but the way he says it. He talks like a preacher or something, and I just love the cadence and rhythm of his speech, even though he often isn't saying much and uses a lot of words incorrectly and superfluous phrases to make himself seem more intelligent. It cracks me up. He's way more entertaining than most talking heads.

Ozzie Guillen is god. Watching him get excited about Jay Z was priceless. He's exactly what I want in my analysts: Crazy, excited, and willing to say anything at any moment.

Shit, I missed Jay-Z. I was planning on NOT missing that.

The Lupica Effect: The amount of grammatical rules a sports writer will ignore increases in direct proportion to the level of perceived historical significance of the sporting event he is describing.

I don't think I've ever been so tilted by analyst talk, as I am after this Pat-Colts game. Like, I physically can't handle listening to the retardation of guys like Dilfer, and their results based analysis. If you want to critize belichick based on probablities, if you can provide an argument that says their 4 and 2 success rate isn't high enough, or something like that, that's one thing. But listening to Dilfer say shit like " You're sending a message to your defense that you don't trust them " tilts me to no ****ing end. I don't think there's ever been a better litmus test for me hating an analyst, than their reaction to belichick going for it.

Scoop Jackson when asked if he agreed with Jack Del Rio's call to have MJD take a knee..

"It worked, so it was a good call."

"He was using clock management against them."

I was literally speechless.

I still don't really know what the second line means and he said it multiple times and each time was more impassioned than the previous. I've read a little bit of his stuff on Page 2 and been pretty indifferent about him but I really felt like throwing a shoe through the 52 inch after listening to that.

I've already decided I'm not listening to any of it this week.

I am looking forward to reading TMQ tomorrow because he's long been an extreme go for it on 4th down proponent, but he's also been extremely anti-Belichick, so it should be interesting to read his take.

I might skip PTI too because I love those guys and I have a feeling they're going to come out way against it.

I didn't think I would ever say this, but Bill Simmons is on my hated list right now. His article today was such an impassioned defense of ignorance that it has me tilted into the ground. I can't STAND listening to him talk about this 4th and 2 issue anymore, I just can't. Of all the people in sports, of all the crappy analysts that have been tilting me, I didn't think it was Simmons that was going to write the ignorance manifesto. I ordered the book of basketball from amazon a few days ago, and I'm seriously considering sending it back. Like no joke.

Yeah, I started reading that and couldn't finish it.

But I'm not returning the BoB.

While I was watching the Lions Thanksgiving day game, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman were talking about who should get the Annual Turkey Trophy for games most outstanding player. The camera was inside the booth recording their conversation, Joe said something (I can't recall what) and Aikman just gave him this look as though he wanted to crush his skull with the trophy. I wish I could find this clip somewhere.

While listening to the broadcast it seems to me that Aikman doesn't really enjoy working with that "dry, boring, and pompous" a hole Joe Buck. I've said it before, but I can't stand that guy.

I'm watching the 1997 MLB All-Star Game on MLB Network right now, and wouldnt you fuckin know it, but Joe Buck is doing a good job. He talked a lot faster back then, which is one of my least favorite things about him now. He talks so slow now, which makes his voice that much more drawn out, monotone and boring. And he actually is getting excited!! Tino Martinez hit a shot deep down the line that ended up foul, but Joe actually raised his voice and may have lept out of his seat! Where has this Joe Buck gone???

I've come to the conclusion that I can't watch CBS Sunday Gameday due entirely to the fact that Shannon Sharpe is part of the show.

Rejoice! Chip Caray is gone from TBS! Now get rid of Dick Stockton and everything is well.

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2009/1...-tbs-drops.html

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

He called an obvious lineout this way: “Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play!”

When Flacco threw an interception in the packer's endzone, after rolling right, and throwing across the field, Tirico screamed, as he was doing the play by play " Oh, that was AWFUL". It made me laugh.

Speedz posted a long time ago that if you have surround sound, you can just unplug the middle speaker while watching a game and you will get all the sounds of the game without the announcers. I thought this was the greatest thing ever and yet I am so lazy I never actually tried it.

If this really does work just like it says, would you do it? Or is listening to awful announcing and making fun of it part of the enjoyment of the game?

But he is so wrong all the time. I can't get around that even if he is funny in a Cochran-mellifluous way.

Have you ever heard a Knicks game announced by Walt Clyde Frazier? I think you would enjoy it.

sure, he's wrong a great deal of the time, but who cares? He's wrong in such a spectacular way. So few talking heads say anything insightful... entertainment value is better than nothing.

And no, I've never heard Frazier call games, but I've heard great things.

Holy hell, this is awesome. Goal calls from Florida Panthers play by play man Randy Moller. I know it's been up for months, but this is the first time I've heard this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3b_7S-sGBo

Yes, it is awesome. There's a part 2 and 3 as well.

The old Tony Bruno show was so awesome. It's terrible that Fox couldn't reach a deal with him. I've listened to his new show a few times, but it just doesn't have a the same 'it factor' as the old show.



We agree. I like Stephen A.



Le Batard said that he was surprised by Simmons also, but he just thinks it's that he is such a fan that he is letting his emotions get in the way. Le Batard also thinks that this is going to be a thing where in the future people will be going for it on 4th down most of the time and we will look back at that play as the turning point of that decision.

Also, thank you guys for turning me onto him. I listened to him for almost 9 hours today. When stugatz blew up on MC Hammer on September 2nd, it was incredible.

Re, Simmons:

My least favorite sport in the whole world has to be Soccer, but NBA basketball is a very close 2nd. I simply couldn't care less about the topic and have even less interest in reading the book (especially since it has like 800 pages). Let me know if you think I should get past all that and read it.




I love that.

Brv,

If you do not like the NBA, Bill Simmons book will be torture for you to read.