07-20-2004, 09:36 AM | #1 (permalink) |
Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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Sexual comments by baseball announcers must end.
So I'm listening for the first time on the radio to a Tribe game, and Tom Hamilton kept getting all sexual, making homosexual and just sexual overtones, when giving play by play. I had to keep checking to make sure I wasn't listening to some Stern clone. There's no sex in baseball.
Here's some examples (if I can even bring myself to typing the obscenities) of what he said: Omar truly likes being behind Lawton, he seems to watch for more balls in that position. Omar tends to swing more often in that front spot. Casey Blake has 3 balls and nowhere to go with them. (How does Hamilton know how many balls Blake has, and isn't that a private thing?) Ronnie Belliard has been carrying a big stick of late, people laughed when we signed him last winter saying he wouldn't get anywhere. Martinez in the crouch waits for Sabbathia's delivery.... and it goes in hard and fast, what a ball. Omar dives left and grabs hold of that ball, but bobbles it, he just doesn't let balls go, he must have been too excited there, thinking what he was going to do with it before he grabbed that ball. Travis Hafner has a very weird stance at home but it allows him to get to more balls and swing better. (How does Hamilton know what these guys do at home unless they have orgies, and why do I as a listener care?) Belliard is leading the league with 2 baggers. (How does Hamilton know Belliard has 2 bags, and how does he know there are others that do?) And there were more but...... I'm too upset over how the announcing ruined the game. I must be off, as I am writing letters to my congressman, my senators, the President, the FCC, CC and MLB over Hamilton's lewd comments.
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07-20-2004, 09:48 AM | #2 (permalink) |
All hail the Mountain King
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Consider yourself lucky it wasn't a hockey game, I don't know how many times last season I heard:
"He really worked the stick between Hasek's legs." ==SHOCKING==
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07-20-2004, 10:52 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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I love when Joe Angel on the Orioles broadcasts says stuff like "and Mazzilli gives the pitcher a little pat on the butt...though I'm sure he ment nothing by it."
God I love pointless baseball discussions
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07-20-2004, 11:10 AM | #5 (permalink) |
Please touch this.
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Personally, I don't see how much of what you noted had any innuendo. Maybe you're the one with all the sexual thoughts watching baseball.
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07-20-2004, 01:30 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" |
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07-20-2004, 04:32 PM | #9 (permalink) |
Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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lol..... I like that one.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" |
07-20-2004, 06:08 PM | #10 (permalink) |
Llama
Location: Cali-for-nye-a
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This reminds of a Dodgers-Giants game last year in San Francisco when Vin Scully slipped and said something to the effect, " Hideo Homo has pitched well." I fell out of my chair laughing.
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07-21-2004, 10:43 AM | #11 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: MD
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I'm sure the FCC will come down on them in some way shape or form in light of the crack-downs caused by Janet Jackson's ridiculous display during the Superbowl. What's good for Howard Stern is good for all the other broadcasters whether they be television broadcasters or otherwise. Fair is fair right?
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07-21-2004, 11:07 AM | #12 (permalink) |
Please touch this.
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My favorite moment was watching a Clippers vs Knicks game. Ralph Lawler and Michael Smith were the commentators. Stephon Marbury was 'feeling it' so on a half-court set, he pulled up at about 35 feet, on top of the 'G' on the Madison Square Garden sign on the floor... and sunk a 3 with ease.
Ralph's comment: "He must have found the G-spot... not many people do."
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07-21-2004, 11:33 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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good one hal - damn good...
ned jarret... "you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel..." kurt gowdy... "that ball left the park faster than a fan with too many beers in him going to the men's room" not a sports caster, but, don imus on bill clinton falling down the stairs at greg norman's house... "it's a proven fact women can do stairs with their skirts pulled up better than men with their pants around their ankles" |
07-21-2004, 06:40 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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08-25-2004, 07:52 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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The radio guys are the best 'cause they really do have to describe the action for their audience.
Recent Devil Rays commentary....'Crawford digs in the batters box...waggin' the wood back and forth'. You can bet they use that one for promos all the time.
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