boom29

I agree about the blalant biased commentary, but specially when they just don't give each team their share of the spotlight. Boston vs. St. Louis is a good example. Even before it got out of hand, you could already tell FOX was just eating up everything Red Sox, it seemed like St. Louis was an afterthought.

I dislike sideline reports/reporters as well. They just don't seem to have a real purpose. Also, interviews with fans/ex-players/parents right in the middle of the game. I can remember quite a few times when I've missed out on a play just because they were interviewing someone, or at least missed out on the excitement of the play because they had the audio from the interview over it.

wwcd101

Back to the catch phrase idea.

Can we quit with "Step it up"? It's driving me crazy!

Thanks for listening.

jobu

Tim McCarver - has to be one of the biggest pompous asses announcing in sports
Brian Baldinger - i never heard someone come up with more wrong information than him
Ken "Hawk" Harrelson - listening to him makes me fall asleep. also it would be nice if he would make the calls when the opposing team scores

What really drive me nuts is announcers that don't know the rules of the sport they are covering. I love an announcer who will be critical but they atleast need to know what they are talking about.

MikeyChalupa

Buck and McCarver are the worst pairing of broadcasters in sports history. What kills me about McCarver is before the game he'll make some comment about a player and tell you to watch for something during the game, like how the pitcher is a fly ball pitcher. So every time the pitcher gets a fly ball out he'll say "there's another one" whie completely ignoring the 15 ground outs he gets.

Buck thinks he'll get fired if he describes the pitch or action at all, which would allow the viewer to take his eyes off the screen for a second.

"Here comes the 1 and 1 .... 1 and 2."
"He pops it up .... two out."

FOX in general should not be allowed to televise sports ever again. Even football. Just let them do the NFL Sunday show and go right to some stupid reality show.

-Mikey

Lefty04

I hate it when they put advertising on the green screen behind the batter and it's about 5 times as bright as the rest of the picture. It's like watching a 3D ad with a baseball game behind it.

By the way, anytime Tim McCarver is broadcasting I turn the volume off.

Gustoferson

A huge, huge, HUGE, pet peeve of mine is the classic mistake of football announcers calling a play a reverse when it's not. Or a double reverse when it's only a single reverse. GRRRRRRRRR! You are football announcers, this is simple stuff!

Simply put, for a reverse to happen, the ball must be traveling in one direction of the field, then be handed off going the opposite direction. This DOES NOT mean an end around where the quarterback hands off to the wide reciever is a reverse, its a frikkin' end around! In fact, unless the quarterback completely sprints to one side as if in a called QB Sweep, then a reverse requires exactly two handoffs, one from the QB to the RB or WR, then the other to the WR on the reverse. This is precisely why reverses are rare in the NFL, its hard enough for a QB to successfully hand off the ball with consistancy, much harder for a running back or wide reciever to do it while screaming across field at full speed. All this in addition to the fact that it takes so long to develop and the fact that a major part of the play involves having the ball carrier run backwards, which is never advisable unless you are dante hall and lucky as hell on kick returns.

At least this error is getting a little less common now that the End Around has been gaining popularity as a play, and imagine i'm not the only one to rip into people for it. Though the 'calling a reverse a double reverse' still happens regularly anytime anyone actually does do it. For gods sake, its a football game, you don't need to try to make it exciting by calling it the wrong freaking play! Quit trying to get yourself on audio highlights and call the damn game!

Oh yes, and as for college basketball, Billy Packer can suck my left nut if he can't be bothered to get players names right by the end of the season after broadcasting their games over 20 times. Jebus man, chill it with the whole senile thing or get off the air.

/not really as pissed off all the time

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canuckguy

i'd say nearly any colour man, they all just kiss the ass of every player when describing them, like way they were sucking brady's dick on mnf. its like the players can do no wrong. every player on the field is the greatest of all time, describing back up shortstops like there effing already in the hall of fame! " hey tom, he's hitting .232 with no homers in 300ab but he's got some pop, i saw him in batting cage hitting them to the track! outstanding!"
oh and that side view for baseball is annoying, can't read if its a strike and every pitch looks like it had 20 feet of break.
how about the after game interviews "hey deion what did it feel like not to play?" followed by the next reporter... "and deion, was it hard not playing...?"

MacGuyver

FOX. Yep. ANYTHING on FOX. Even NASCAR.

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Mitzkrieg

well, it's not my biggest pet peeve, but it's one of them..... all the more recent additions to ESPN's sportcenter (and i can't come up with any names sorry) seem to just copy Rich Eisen's and Stuart Scott's style of commentary and it's getting out of hand.

you know how Stuart would say something like "just call me butter cuz i'm on a roll" after some awesome play. well now it's just a regular thing and sometimes the other commentators come up with the stupidest one liners i swear.

boom29

Sportscenter and ESPN in general have gone down the drain. Before they were witty without trying too hard, now they just try too hard.

McG

"They are going to need some points to win this game."

jcookc6

very obvious, that if we eliminated color commentators, 90% of these posts wouldn't be here.

lpj8

My pet peeves of broadcasting are:
John Madden
"Make a play" or "step up"
Lee Corso
The AOL running man on the football field before plays
"This game is brought to you by Viagra/Levitra/Cialis"
"Following the game today, make sure you catch the latest episode of Cold Case/CSI/The Simpsons
Steven A. Smith
Bob Costas

jobu

how right you are

quicksteal

After reading all your complaints about sports broadcasters, I can't believe that no one has said that they hate Al Michaels. He's got every single bad broadcasting trait (sad catch phrases, oversimplifications, saying what others are thinking, poorly describing injuries, you name it, he sucks at it). Maybe it's just b/c nobody watches MNF anymore, or b/c people are too busy complaining about the other half of the booth, but I must say, Al Michaels SUCKS.

Jadedfox

The ESPN Sunday Night Football crew. Ugh, even Madden is much better.

--jaded

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Locobot

Mostly pertaining to FOX, I really can't stand cliche-ridden broadcasters with southern accents. When did learning how to pronounce things become unecessary for getting a job in broadcasting. Also the in-screen advertisements have gone way to far and are completely distracting. Put a banner with the score up fine, but adding a green-screened bobbing advert is horrible.

I tend to like well-spoken announcers who only open their mouths when they actually have something worth-while to say like Marv Albert or Bob Costas. [runs for cover].

guy44

Anything Fox. Especially Tim McCarver. I can't believe this guy gets to do the World Series.

Also, sports announcers who don't know anything about the sport they are covering. I only really watch baseball, so I'm referring to most announcers who have long been passed by the game. They bitch and moan about the lack of bunting from a Red Sox offense that scores 920 runs, hits insane amounts of extra base hits, and has a DH, for example.

Of course, very few people in baseball actually know anything about the current variant of the game, so I'm not sure what I should expect.

Also, even though it's the wrong forum, can I add that I really hate the DH?

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