Re: Sports Broadcaster Negative Rating Poll #1
Too bad Johnston doesn't work with them anymore. I hate Buck on baseball but he has grown into an excellent football announcer. Sometimes he tries to pull his "i'm gonna try to be funny here" stunts but Aikman unlike McCarver doesn't go for that bull. Aikman has also become the best analyst in football these days. It's nice to see him succeeding so well after all those concussions.
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sidenote: It's strange, Joe is the opposite of his father who was a GREAT baseball announcer but only an average football announcer.
Agreed, He's been bar none the best announcer in Canada by a country mile since Shulman went down south. I remember watching Hughson doing Blue Jays games on TSN and NHL games with IIRC Gary Green. He was always very professional and unlike other peers of his he knows when to shut up.
I haven't seen him do hockey games yet. He does Oilers games right? I have seen him on Hockey Central which is the hockey panel show here on Sportsnet and he's always been a very honest guy who doesn't go overboard or follows the crowd when things go badly. For instance, when discussing the hit on McAmmond he was very calm and explained his reasons for not liking it at all without going into hysterics.
I've seen a couple of those NCAA broadcasts with Shulman and he's fantastic. I think he's a better baseball broadcaster tho. I've been a HUGE fan of his since his days on the FAN 590 hosting his own radio show. He was clearly in the top 5 baseball announcers when he was teamed with Buck Martinez on TSN calling Jays games. The guy can do it all. Heck, I think he even did some boxing PBP at one point. I can't wait for the day that Jon Miller retires or Shulman goes to another network to call baseball because he's truly in a rarefied air. If only he'd get a chance to display his gifts on national TV more often.
This is the only people on your list that I have any argument against. Of course, they win by default as NBC and ESPN just don't know how to make NASCAR entertaining. The problem with these guys is that they revert to the stereotypical "redneck, good ol' boys" mentality of NASCAR. At times Waltrip seems to lose his grasp of the english language and makes up whole new words! Other then that tho they're excellent. I especially like listening to Larry McReynolds explaining the car setups and pit strategies etc etc.
Too bad Johnston doesn't work with them anymore. I hate Buck on baseball but he has grown into an excellent football announcer. Sometimes he tries to pull his "i'm gonna try to be funny here" stunts but Aikman unlike McCarver doesn't go for that bull. Aikman has also become the best analyst in football these days. It's nice to see him succeeding so well after all those concussions.
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sidenote: It's strange, Joe is the opposite of his father who was a GREAT baseball announcer but only an average football announcer.
Agreed, He's been bar none the best announcer in Canada by a country mile since Shulman went down south. I remember watching Hughson doing Blue Jays games on TSN and NHL games with IIRC Gary Green. He was always very professional and unlike other peers of his he knows when to shut up.
I haven't seen him do hockey games yet. He does Oilers games right? I have seen him on Hockey Central which is the hockey panel show here on Sportsnet and he's always been a very honest guy who doesn't go overboard or follows the crowd when things go badly. For instance, when discussing the hit on McAmmond he was very calm and explained his reasons for not liking it at all without going into hysterics.
I've seen a couple of those NCAA broadcasts with Shulman and he's fantastic. I think he's a better baseball broadcaster tho. I've been a HUGE fan of his since his days on the FAN 590 hosting his own radio show. He was clearly in the top 5 baseball announcers when he was teamed with Buck Martinez on TSN calling Jays games. The guy can do it all. Heck, I think he even did some boxing PBP at one point. I can't wait for the day that Jon Miller retires or Shulman goes to another network to call baseball because he's truly in a rarefied air. If only he'd get a chance to display his gifts on national TV more often.
This is the only people on your list that I have any argument against. Of course, they win by default as NBC and ESPN just don't know how to make NASCAR entertaining. The problem with these guys is that they revert to the stereotypical "redneck, good ol' boys" mentality of NASCAR. At times Waltrip seems to lose his grasp of the english language and makes up whole new words! Other then that tho they're excellent. I especially like listening to Larry McReynolds explaining the car setups and pit strategies etc etc.
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