What are your sports broadcasting pet peeves?
 

1) Referring to the point halfway between the goal line and the one yard line as the "six-inch line." Uh guys, it's the eighteen-inch line.
2) Referring to injuries by the body part instead of the injury. For example, saying that a QB went down "with a knee," or "with an ankle." An ankle what?? Sprain? Break? Twist?
3) Any ground-level camera angle on live action. Leave the artsy fartsy shit for instant replay; when it's live, I want to see the field. They're especially bad about this on kickoffs and punts.

more as they come to me......

1. Anything out of Bill Walton's mouth.
2. In Baseball, I can't stand how they don't show straight on angle to home plate anymore. Now they have to show it from the side so they can get a shot of any advertisers sign on the wall over the catchers shoulder. It's hard to make a call on the pitch from that angel.
3. I don't think it has anything to do with broadcasting, but I hate that a football game takes more time to watch than a Nascar event and just as boring to watch.
(sorry to all you Nascar fans- i.e. my entire family)

Every time Bill Walton says, "throw it down" or when John Madden says anything that is painfully obvious.

When broadcasters show their bias. Bill Walton, of course, comes to mind.

any one who says you know so and so is thinking


really your psyic

tell me how to read there mind

Madden, Walton, and Brent Mustbetheworstbroadcasterintheworld.

I hate listening to these idiots.


Art

1. Vitale
2. Billy Packer

Not necessarily in that order... no wait... in that order, but real close.

I pretty much hate all national NBA broadcasting. Bill Walton and Tom Tolbert included. How can you talk so much without saying a thing?

I do however like Kevin Harlan because he has a few cool key phrases. "He's an assassin!"

Tim McCarver...That guy drives me nuts.

I still get a kick every time I see Deion Sanders dump the water on his head.

1) When sports announcers talk about everything but the game.
2) When you get really old sports announcers who reminisce about players from the 40's, 50's, and 60's. Umm...who?
3) Sports announcers who watch a missed penalty on 40 different replays, with 20 different angles all from the comfort of their booth, and then then criticize the referee for missing the call.

I hate it when they plug a different show or game, then decide to talk about it until the next commercial break.

cardinals announcers are good except for the fact that they never hesitate to whore themselves out.

i.e.: "Rolen is a true all star out there. Speaking of all stars, ford focus is an all star in our own parking lot, blah blah blah"

STU LANTZ

he's mr god damn obvious. and he does is praise kobe bryant. it could be like 5 plays later, he'll show the replay and comment on it with kobe's piece in his mouth still.

BILL WALTON

nuf said

overall, i hate the long dramatic pauses. i wonder if they go home and talk like that.

"hi honey, how was.............YOUR DAY...........AT WORK?!"
"did you know that we were.........OUT OF.......EGGS?!"

grrrr

Brent Musberger - (I don't care if I spelled his name wrong he's an asshat) I'm gonna show my Bias here but I don't really care. Everytime he does an Ohio State Buckeye Football game he always makes me seem like we have no friggin' shot at winning two games come to mind. '97 Rose Bowl, Arizona State. When ASU scored with 2 minutes left, Brent acted like the players should just get on there buses and go home. 2 Minutes in football is forever! Ohio State would score a Touchdown drive with 15-30 seconds left in the game. More recently Ohio State v. Purdue. I'll admit this game was closer than the last one but still Brent wanted the Ohio State players to pack there things and leave Indiana. Krenzel to Jenkins, Buckeyes win.

Bill Walton - On a less personal note this guy shouldn't be allowed a microphone...for any reason. He pauses at the wrong time and his "catchphrase" of "Throw it down big man, Throw it down" is worse than "You can put it on the Board...YES!" from the Chicago White Sox Announce team, who also suck.

Venting feels good

I'm right there with you, I've gotten to the point i'll turn the volume off to watch the game. When they are talking about the game it can be bad, but they stop talking about the game or anything related to that just even worse...


yeah throw it down big man is horrible, but I still laugh everytime I hear him say that. It sounds like a video game announcer line...

Now, aside from all of that I do like the half time shows with Barkley and Kenny. I may not always agree with Barkley but I like him a hella lot better than the announcers.

When watching Yankees baseball and the game is really long, I hate how Michael Kay says "That was an unmanageable three hours and seven minutes."

Women color announcers asking stupid questions that someone gave them to ask. And try to act like they know what they are talking about.

CBC announcers who call Ottawa vs Toronto game.
CBC hates Ottawa and they don't try to hard to hide it.

I agree with you there, although I'd say they're more pro-Toronto, than anti-Ottawa (cuz they're the same way with Montreal vs. Toronto, for example).
Now, BOB COLE, that dude should retire. I know he's been around for ages and all that, but he routinely screws up when doing a game. EVERY goddamn game, he'll say the puck's cleared the zone, by whoever, when it actually doesn't end up getting cleared. He should be calling what he sees, not what he <i>predicts</i> will happen. Maybe he just plain can't see well enough anymore. That's just one thing he does that drives me insane; there are more. He's a doddering old man, and his time is up.

Bob Cole may be old, but he is 1000 times better than Gary Thorne on ESPN. People wonder why no one is watching hockey on ESPN.

ESPN!!! ever watch a Lightning game on there, they dont even talk like the lightning can win, they are so against US, boo ESPN

Maybe everybody else is cool with this, but I despise verb tense massacres. For example, "Lookit the instant replay on that one, Bill. If he catches that, he's gone."

It should be: "If he caught that, he'd have gone." Only sportscaster talk this way, too. Odd.

When any sports preempt my regular programming... I hate that...

My only hope is that Bill Walton, Tim McCarver, Joe Buck, Mark Grace, Joe Theisman, and Paul MacGuire all have to spend the afterlife listening to their contributions to society for all of eternity. I'm pretty sure that is the only way to save their souls at this point.

On the radio, when they go for ages and not give the score. This usually happens on the local High school level, and was obvious this weekend. The high school in the town that the radio station is located in made the HS playoffs for the first time this year. My wife and I went out to dinner and shopping, and I got in the car and drove for 20+ miles towards home before they gave the score. They even had a timeout in there where they went to commercial, and they still didn't give the score. By them not giving the score, I knew the local team was getting beat, cause when they are winning, we get the score every other sentence. Drives me nuts.

It's the catch-phrases that get me most....He's giving 110/100%....He really came to play....records were made to be broken...

One thing I discovered that I HATE... is when the commentators second-guess the plays on the field. Tim McCarver does this all the time. It bugs the shit out of me.

And one phrase that should be banned from all broadcasting.. X-Factor

Tim McCarver has been dutifully carved up here so no sense in piling on that one. A guy who gets me is the Diaper Dandy Dicky Vee wannabe --- BILL RAFTERY :mad: Turns the sound down in anticipation of him being a goofball. Oh yeah...and that Duke Lover Billy Packer -- he could use a butt plug.

Hmmmm.....who broadcast the playoffs and series this year? Oh yeah...FOX. Wow, I guess the only reason I know this, IS BECAUSE IT WAS ON A GREEN SCREEN ON THE BACKSTOP EVERY STINKING PITCH.

Now I can recite Fox' schedule in my sleep. Annoying fucks!

Washington Wizard broadcaser Steve Buckhantz loves to use phrases like "Dagggger!!" and "Backbreaker!!" when the other team hits a clutch shot to seal the win. It pisses me off so bad.

I also dislike when announcers dwell on points and repeat points frequently. It doesn't make me mad only when my team is losing either, even early in the game, its just plain annoying.

Tom Tolbert, I laugh when he makes serious comments about a player's ability. He was such a scrub, and I always picture him back in the day on Jim Rome's show getting abused like a sissy.

Walton is way too generous and persistent with his praise.
I actually like some of his phrases though, like "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail" and "All success requires change, but not all change is success".

Blatant biased comments by the commentators, particularly against the Yankees.

Anything that comes outta Bill Walton's mouth

I can sum it up in two words: Joe Buck. I never thought it was possible, but he is so horrible that he made Dennis Miller look like Howard Cosell. He's so boring, it makes me want to fall asleep during the game, and considering he's part of Fox's "A-team," that's really bad. :rolleyes:

No kidding :lol:

Hrabosky is a tool of the infinite degree. The only way to watch a Cardinals game without Joe Buck at the mike is to listen to the play by play on the radio with Mike Shannon.

Aside from the stating the obvious and professing psychic abilities, the only thing I really hate about sports announcers is when they switch sides during the course of the game. McCarver and Phil Simms are the two that come immediately to mind. Start the game fawning over the projected winner and when they start to fumble and plod, immediately start bad mouthing them to avoid looking like idiots. Using a lot of doom and gloom metaphors and the like. It's distasteful.

1 Pet Peeve and only 1....

MADDEN! hes so fucking annoying!

I strongly agree with the huge annoyance that is Bill Walton. I always can't stand the commentator for the WSOP (World Series of Poker) that always has to compare everything to his ex-wife. Does anyone else notice this??

Tim McCarver. That guy was just an angry old man during the post season. He just needs to retire and Al Leiter needs to take his place.

when the broadcasters make a stupid mistake and call the player by the wrong name, then go on as if nothing happened.

Or when they call it wrong and say, "travleling on so and so," then continue "oh and now they've changed the call to a foul" instead of saying "I'm god awful stupid and actually I made a mistake."

i hate when i have to listen to either joe morgan or rick sutcliff during baseball games
they state the obvious all the time and just really annoy me

I always hate it on video games when they criticize me for a "stupid move" that worked out much better than the alternative. Or when it's 4th and goal at the other team's 2 yard line and they tell me how stupid I am for going for the touchdown. Has anyone played many of the EA sports NCAA series? I like it when they Corso says that he hopes the other team is going to get a rematch because I'm running up the score on them. If they are getting beat 130-0, why would anyone think they stand a chance in a rematch?