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[orangecat]

So we've gone from Mike Patrick and Harold Reynolds to this ridiculous excuse for announcing. The funny thing for me is that I had the sound muted most of the time. I tried listening and when I realized the sick broadcaster sounded so horrible, I muted the TV, then later I would see the three talking to each other, then they put the graphic up about their favorite sports movies.

Occasionally I would unmute to see if they were still talking about something other than the game. Yep, still not talking about the game. Mute it again. and again.

Later when they were showing the three clowns sittting there talking looking at each other, one time when I unmuted they were complaining about how long the game was taking.

They were running out of things to talk about, they almost had to talk about the game!! OH horrors!

The question is does ESPN care?

I wish someone would post an email address of someone at ESPN who cares.

 

[HornStar]

[email protected]

 

[longtex]

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[orangecat]

btw, I left my comments at the ESPN site, and things have improved dramatically. I cut and pasted most of what I wrote earlier in this thread. Last night for example, it was just Mike Patrick and Orel, and they actually talked about the game!

There were several times late in the game when Orel would just go silent. Other than talking about Mike Patrick's bowling average, they stuck to the game, and left big moments of silence when there was nothing they could add to the broadcast. It was actually good.

Then tonight it was Mike and Robin, same story, didn't try anything strange. The only thing that took away from the game was the two interviews, one with the OSU coach and one with Augie. Also, at one point Robin went on and on with a prepared speech about something I can't remember and missed an at-bat, but that was it.

They even tried a weak attempt at the clinic thing Harold used to do, but Robin is pathetic at that type of thing.

Bottom line, IMO the ESPN guys actually read the comments. Let's hope they continue to stick to baseball.

 

[YeaTexasFight]

I blame it on Steve Phillips....as far as I'm aware, he was only on one broadcast...Texas vs. ASU. Combined with McDonough's terrible voice and it was not going to end well.

I kinda viewed Phillips as that guy you always get into trouble with and keeps you from doing what you know is right. ("I don't know, Steve...maybe we should talk about the game....Your favorite sport's movie is Caddyshack? YEAH. That was a great movie!)

 

[Valmy77]

Yeah the last two broadcasts have been much much improved. Kudos to ESPN for correcting the problems.

 

[Bevo's Buddy]

Mike Patrick has been announcing CWS games for quite some time, and has always been, at least IMO, quite good.

It's a shame that Harold Reynolds got fired. He and Mike Patrick made a great team. Except for the occassional grammatical error, Harold was good. He brought lots of baseball knowledge, didn't dilute his commentary by constantly bragging about the fact that he played in the majors, had a tremendous passion for the college game, and actually talked about the particular CWS game he was covering.

 

[bassale47]

The last two games have been okay because it's been Patrick and Ventura. God help us if we get stuck with McDonough and company tonight. Although, I agree that ESPN has probably heard the message loud and clear that they sucked the other tonight and have told them to cool it with the ******** and stick to baseball.

 

[cochamps]

The one that drove me the craziest was Orel and Karl Ravetch. Sean is usually okay when his voice is teh suck.

Mike Patrcik is solid; I do miss HR though.