You know what really grinds my gears?

[jhogan3132]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Women announcers commentating during a Mens basketball game. Doris Burke for ex.. Damn maybe I am sexist.

Doris Burke does at least two Ohio State games a year. Pretty painful.

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[MBFranchise]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Doris Burke does at least two Ohio State games a year. Pretty painful.

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Maybe this should go in the Uncommon Opinions thread, but I like listening to Doris Burke. She's definitely better than many of the guys they put out there.

Now, Pam Ward a few years ago, she reached new levels of awful.

[jhogan3132]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Getting to the final week of the regular season in NCAA and when I try to advance to conference championship games I get the dreaded error message.

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[bigbob]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Lazy people who hide **** at work because they don't feel like putting it where it goes.

My mom's fiancee got a call from my mom at 9:30 saying she was in the ER because a 20lb plus metal bar fell on her head and neck. Some **** decided they were going to stuff it in a linen closet because they didn't want to put it away and my mom was the unlucky person to open the door.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Horror movies insisting on using a jump-scare at the very end of a film, even if it doesn't match up or make any logical sense.

Some of the better horror movies out there use it, and then the last few frames of the film just bring it down a bit because of the director's insistence to let Hollywood be Hollywood.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When you set your DVR to record something, and it shuts down(either to update itself,or just cause it shut down) in the middle of that recording

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The amount of Scandal talk I suffered through online last night. Every where I went people were talking about it, women and men.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When sports stations use the craziest stat combination to try and show how good some player(or team) is.

EX in baseball(not one I heard,I'm just using random numbers for sake of explaining): ____ is only the 3rd player at his position in history to hit .317AVG,36+HR,21+ 2B and record 27+ SB while in his 4th AL season.

Or in basketball: ___ is only the 2nd player in the past 27 years to record 21.3PPG,7.1RPG,4.7APG,2.3SPG,.484FG% in the month of January while playing no more than 462 minutes combined.

[mgoblue]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When sports stations use the craziest stat combination to try and show how good some player(or team) is.

EX in baseball: ____ is only the ___ player at his position in history to hit ___AVG,___HR,___2B and record ___SB while in his ___ season.

Or in basketball: ___ is only the ___ player in the past ___ years to record __._PPG,__._RPG,__._APG,___SPG,____FG% while playing no more than ___ minutes combined.

LOL totally....Even worse when it's the first player since Eddie McGee in 1898 to do something....

[CMH]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Lazy people who hide **** at work because they don't feel like putting it where it goes.

My mom's fiancee got a call from my mom at 9:30 saying she was in the ER because a 20lb plus metal bar fell on her head and neck. Some **** decided they were going to stuff it in a linen closet because they didn't want to put it away and my mom was the unlucky person to open the door.

You just mentioned the kitchen staff at a bar & eatery I work shifts at.

I do the work of a lunatic everyday by having to rearrange things because they are too lazy to put things back properly. They also just haphazardly stock things in random places that aren't at all connected to the other items.

Everyday. It's the definition of lunacy, and one day something is gonna go wrong because of it.


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[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I think I say this every year, but parents and fans who love little Johnny too much to realize that the reason their team isn't very good is because they are small and slow.

[~LiverpoolRed~]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It's a HUGE problem in Canada as well.

They show replays of events, and tell you the result of it at the bottom! Or when it goes to commercial break, they go to the studios where the person tells you how it ends.

EX-Lets say I was watching a replay of game 7 of NBA finals. During a commercial break, they'd go to the channels studios and the person would be like "We hope you're enjoying the replay of the Miami Heats NBA championship winning game".......I was until you mentioned who won!

I'm hating the olympics coming up for that reason(since it's in Russia,so the events would be at a time I won't be able to see it,so I'll have to tune in to the replay), cause I KNOW they'll spoil who won during the replay. During 2010 olympics, I watched back some events during the replay, and even though I already knew who won, I still hated when they went to commercial breaks and the person would flat out tell people who won.

Thankfully,this time around I got DVR so I can record the olympic events and not settle for getting it spoiled due to the replays.

TSN used to be dreadful with spoiling results. I remember the World Cup 2002 played in Korea & Japan. The time difference was so much that alot of games were on tape delay. Vic Rauter would come on and say, "Enjoy England's 1-1 draw with Sweden"

Thanks Vic!

[Redacted01]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When sports stations use the craziest stat combination to try and show how good some player(or team) is.

EX in baseball(not one I heard,I'm just using random numbers for sake of explaining): ____ is only the 3rd player at his position in history to hit .317AVG,36+HR,21+ 2B and record 27+ SB while in his 4th AL season.

Or in basketball: ___ is only the 2nd player in the past 27 years to record 21.3PPG,7.1RPG,4.7APG,2.3SPG,.484FG% in the month of January while playing no more than 462 minutes combined.

The number they use aren't usually random. If you do your research, you'll find most of them trace back to career averages for a certain class of players. Dividing lines are never going to be "nice" numbers. The nth year or X number of minutes remarks are usually rare as well.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The number they use aren't usually random. If you do your research, you'll find most of them trace back to career averages for a certain class of players. Dividing lines are never going to be "nice" numbers. The nth year or X number of minutes remarks are usually rare as well.

I suppose that's true. Just looks weird when they don't end in a 0 or 5 though. Just as well, they shouldn't have to. Milestone values are so arbitrary. The difference between 2,999 hits and 3,000 hits is one hit.

I always find the stats funny when a broadcaster or analyst says: "He's 2 for his last 37." Because the thing that we know for sure about that stat is that it means he's definitely then 3 for his last 38. They scrape at the bottom of the barrel to make sure somebody looks as good or as bad as possible. An example of good would be: "They've won 9 of their last 11 games," which of course means they've also won 9 of their last 12.

I'm fine with those stats, but I just find them funny because I know exactly what it means when I hear them.

The kind I don't like is when an analyst is trying to promote or campaign for a player's MVP candidacy or something, and throws out redundant numbers. Like they might say how many home runs somebody has, then how many extra base hits, then their slugging percentage. I know they're all different numbers, but they aren't completely independent of one another nor do they help differentiate certain aspects of the player's abilities. They try and make people say "wow" without realizing he almost used the same thing three times.

[CMH]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The above is one of the reasons I always found it awkward to write about sports though I enjoy it.

It quickly becomes cherry picking when you're informing the public of a player's or team's worth.

I see that winning streak and I end up choosing a day that suggests since then this or these guys have been great or bad. And it's a disservice to the performance a day before because you're choosing to ignore it


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