Best/Worst analysts/commentators/announcers

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:50 pm

I hope he recovers…

So I can meet him one day…

And slap the shine off that bald hypocritical head of his.

Get well DukieV! Can’t wait to yell at you in public some day soon.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:04 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:47 pm As our moms used to say, if you can't say something nice... so I'll have to leave this one alone...

I was thinking the same thing. Also, I don't have any intentions on testing Karma.

U.P. Zona Fan · Post by **U.P. Zona Fan** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:38 pm

Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy,

Best wishes and prayers for Dickie V!

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:58 pm

He'll be fine. His chances of survival are equal to my hatred of him. That's how this works.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Sun Nov 21, 2021 11:13 pm

Am I crazy…I kinda liked Hummel on the broadcasts this weekend.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Nov 22, 2021 7:40 am

You’re crazy. Dude had so little clue what was happening on the court. He sounded like he was reading his notes instead of watching the game.

I met Robbie when he was in high school (he’s from the town I live in) and have been at a few social things that he’s been at over the years and we’ve had the chance to chat. He could not be a nicer person. But he needs work as a color commentator. If he’s at this wedding I’m going to in June I might have to tell him. He was so busy gargling Michigan’s nuts in the first half that I’m not sure he was also watching the game.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Mon Nov 22, 2021 7:51 am

You know the drill - they want to keep eyeballs on the game so in the first half they were scraping together comments on how Michigan could get back into the game even when it was obvious that Arizona was the better team.

But as the second half continued to show that Arizona was dominating they had no choice and say Arizona was kicking ass and will be a force the rest of the season.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:02 am

I dunno if I agree with those opinions, but maybe I’m just glad we didn’t have Fran or other espn-ers on the call

97cats · Post by **97cats** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 5:48 pm

Tim Brando was fantastic today - even in the middle of the Frazier 11-0 run i rewound the tape two or three times to hear the call...on the final pull up three he called it good "Frazier. Feeling it. Oh Ya." before it went in...which was preceded by an "iron unkind" on the Balo miss on the other end.

also didnt hurt that he was gushing Arizona the whole time

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:28 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:46 pm

I always expect Chris Collinsworth to announce that he’s got a fatal case of CTE.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:12 am

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 12:48 pm

97cats wrote: ↑Sat Dec 11, 2021 5:48 pm Tim Brando was fantastic today - even in the middle of the Frazier 11-0 run i rewound the tape two or three times to hear the call...on the final pull up three he called it good "Frazier. Feeling it. Oh Ya." before it went in...which was preceded by an "iron unkind" on the Balo miss on the other end.

also didnt hurt that he was gushing Arizona the whole time

I liked his insight into Mathurin calling for the five seconds.

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:18 pm

Regardless of your opinion on the subject, at no time should Walton be talking about abortion during a basketball game.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:14 am

I love Walton

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:01 am

Postmaster wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:18 pm Regardless of your opinion on the subject, at no time should Walton be talking about abortion during a basketball game.

Agreed. Not the time or place imo but I blame Robinson for being so stupid to ask what Bill meant by his comment around expanding Title IX.

Beachcat97 · Post by **Beachcat97** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:12 am

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:14 amI love Walton

Me too.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:40 am

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:01 am
Postmaster wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:18 pm Regardless of your opinion on the subject, at no time should Walton be talking about abortion during a basketball game.
Agreed. Not the time or place imo but I blame Robinson for being so stupid to ask what Bill meant by his comment around expanding Title IX.

It really was kind of shocking (which is why I kinda loved it)

But Robinson could not have changed the subject any quicker!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:41 am

Robinson already has kind of big bug eyes so in my mind they positively jumped out of his head when Walton said that and I was cracking up.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:53 am

Alieberman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:40 am
EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:01 am
Postmaster wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:18 pm Regardless of your opinion on the subject, at no time should Walton be talking about abortion during a basketball game.
Agreed. Not the time or place imo but I blame Robinson for being so stupid to ask what Bill meant by his comment around expanding Title IX.
It really was kind of shocking (which is why I kinda loved it)

But Robinson could not have changed the subject any quicker!

Completely agree. Note Bill has not brought this up (in my recollection anyway) when Dave Pasch is around, although Walton has brought up Pasch's right wing leanings. Let's keep it to basketball Bill, along with the world's largest fungi location.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:12 am

Are we almost in 2022 and people are asking Walton to stick to sports?

Fishclamps · Post by **Fishclamps** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 12:22 pm

I loved him mispronouncing antigone

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 12:43 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:12 am Are we almost in 2022 and people are asking Walton to stick to sports?

I don't think anyone is saying that... everyone knows (expects) Bill to go to some interesting places in his broadcast... but there are a couple topics that one would think a sports broadcaster would stay far away from... but Bill is certainly not your typical sports broadcaster!

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:15 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:36 pm

I get that was a quite a stupid and premature take but I don’t think it was done in a malicious way to warrant that take.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:09 pm

Cindy Brunson is god awful.

“You betcha” = “Boom goes the dynamite”

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:11 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:09 pm Cindy Brunson is god awful.

“You betcha” = “Boom goes the dynamite”

Corey Williams isn't much better. My wife asked me if there was only one announcer for the game.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:15 pm

Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:11 pm
Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:09 pm Cindy Brunson is god awful.

“You betcha” = “Boom goes the dynamite”
Corey Williams isn't much better. My wife asked me if there was only one announcer for the game.

Williams did the Stanford game earlier.

VegasCatFan · Post by **VegasCatFan** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:21 pm

Cindy Brunson might be the worst play-by-play announcer I’ve ever heard. Made it painful to watch the game.

Fishclamps · Post by **Fishclamps** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:47 pm

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:09 pm Cindy Brunson is god awful.

“You betcha” = “Boom goes the dynamite”

Atrocious

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:46 am

I have to admit, and I don't usually do this for home games because love hearing the crowd, that I had the game on moot a lot of the time.

And Corey didn't help matters...

IndianaZonaFan · Post by **IndianaZonaFan** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:14 am

It was a bad combo, and I don’t say that because she’s a woman. I usually like their outside perspective, as they don’t normally do Arizona games. They were both unbearable.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:53 am

They both seemed half asleep. I ended up muting them too. It was just a bad broadcast.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:58 am

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:09 pm Cindy Brunson is god awful.

“You betcha” = “Boom goes the dynamite”

She was putrid.

Anyone who says “free-thrower” should be banned.

She said it like 6 times. Was driving me insane.

And Corey, god bless him, has always been terrible

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:01 am

She lost me when she said the fans were waiting for the Cats to score so they could sit down about 3 minutes in. Corey had to correct her.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:06 am

Talking about how it was a two possession game with three minutes left in the first half was pretty funny. I mean, there were only like forty five more possessions to go before the final whistle so that was definitely vital information.

g32knights · Post by **g32knights** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:58 am

Corey lost me when he was dumbfounded that the Arizona reserves were shooting the ball with 1:30 left. Are they just supposed to take shot clock violations? Corey has always been brutally bad, and he said he would be announcing the Stanford game next week.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:01 am

My favorite was with the last possession of the 1st half she asked Corey what he thinks Colorado should do with this last possession of the half.... after Simpson had literally scored the last 20 straight points for Rado....

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:04 am

Corey also said something boneheaded about “that’s what Colorado has to do” right after they jacked up a bad off-balance shot with 20 seconds left on the shot clock that clanged off the rim.

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:32 am

I’d still take Corey over jimmy dykes. He’s the fucking worst.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:37 am

Corey is a great guy.... bless his heart as a broadcaster

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:50 am

When she called Dalen Terry "Jason Terry", well, at least she got the team right.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:08 am

According to Scheer Corey did color on the Stanford game from home then went to McKale Center for the Cat's game. That's a long day for a broadcaster.

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 2:43 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:46 am I have to admit, and I don't usually do this for home games because love hearing the crowd, that I had the game on moot a lot of the time.

And Corey didn't help matters...

Just watched the DVR replay (with a lot of FF.) Have to agree with the takes on this thread on Cindy B. While watching the replay (and prior to reading this thread), she was bad enough that I had to look up her profile on my phone. I have no problem accepting female sports announcers, but they have to be good, they can't be too breathlessly happy to be there, and they can't rattle off too many contrived and hokey catch-phrases that they've dreamed up for themselves. To be fair, there are very few male announcers I like, either. As for muting the game, I've found a sweet spot in volume where the announcers' voices are a drone you can tune-out without really hearing them, but when something big happens and the crowd roars, you can hear that just fine.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:04 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:32 am I’d still take Corey over jimmy dykes. He’s the fucking worst.

I’d take getting my ear hole stabbed with rusty sewing needle over Jimmy Dykes and I’d take Jimmy Dykes over Dan Dakich.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:36 pm

I have to admit I also mute the volume to try and improve our play.

Yes, I am nuts…

Olsondogg · Post by **Olsondogg** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:22 pm

Guys.

Just found out that was Brunson’s first play by play ever.

She was bad, but damn, I’ve been a clown on my first day at work too.

I hope she gets better…

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:26 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:22 pm Guys.

Just found out that was Brunson’s first play by play ever.

She was bad, but damn, I’ve been a clown on my first day at work too.

I hope she gets better…

Just your first day?

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:32 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:22 pm Guys.

Just found out that was Brunson’s first play by play ever.

Well that explains boom goes the dynamite.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:33 pm

Olsondogg wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:22 pm Guys.

Just found out that was Brunson’s first play by play ever.

She was bad, but damn, I’ve been a clown on my first day at work too.

I hope she gets better…

Why does that matter? She sucked big time so her review hasn’t changed.

Go fucking practice in the minors if she’s not ready for the big stage.

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