Kramerica Industries Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 On 8/21/2023 at 1:08 AM, who do you think said: Not wrong, but he still pulled it off. Al Michaels in his heyday was so naturally good that he could do play-by-play for the kitchen at Chili's and I'd probably still watch. Exhibit A of the gulf between NBC and ESPN is Game 1 of the 2001 Finals. Irrespective of the game itself - which was compelling going in and turned out to be a classic - it just feels like every single person involved in that broadcast, from Marv Albert and Doug Collins all the way down to [whoever, name a grunt position, I'm not in the business] was absolutely locked in. Multiple times I've opened the full-game broadcast on Youtube intending to skip ahead to overtime and/or the Iverson stepover, and instead get suckered in and end up just watching the whole thing. I'm sure there's some nostalgia at work there but whatever. ESPN has never and will never put on an NBA broadcast like that. Even when they've had truly classic games to work with - like 2016 Game 7 - the energy just hasn't been there. This is from 1993 and yet it's better than anything ESPN has ever done for promoting an NBA game of any kind. And there are several more examples I could find if I wanted. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 And we ain't comin' to your city! https://www.on3.com/news/comin-to-your-city-college-gameday-espn-big-rich-show-song-opening-theme-song/ Quote trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germanshepherd Posted August 26, 2023 Share Posted August 26, 2023 10 hours ago, TrueYankee26 said: And we ain't comin' to your city! https://www.on3.com/news/comin-to-your-city-college-gameday-espn-big-rich-show-song-opening-theme-song/ No more zing in my zang zang 1 Quote i have unquantifiable corpses on my conscience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Goodbye AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, hello NESN Pittsburgh https://triblive.com/sports/penguins-owners-fenway-sports-group-to-buy-att-sportsnet-pittsburgh/ Quote trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digby Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 Does Pittsburgh have a Barstool bro they can poach for "lifestyle" podcasts and YouTube videos? Are we ready for a dating reality show for Pens fans? Will a standalone app for their games streaming be prohibitively expensive to make sure nobody actually buys it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 How many field reporters are going to marry the players they cover? Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 Yeah, this sucks....conveniently on the opening weekend of college football https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/media/disney-spectrum-cable-carriage-deal/index.html Spectrum cut the feed Thursday night as Florida-Utah was set to kickoff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 On 8/25/2023 at 10:45 PM, Germanshepherd said: No more zing in my zang zang They brought the song back but with a different group remixing it. And I got to say it is inferior to the Big & Rich version. Quote trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueYankee26 Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 Disney-Charter feud is over. https://awfulannouncing.com/charter/disney-spectrum-deal-espn-abc.html 2 Quote trueyankee26.wordpress.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 Just reminded how terrible and disorganized the Amazon TNF pre-game team is. I was hoping they'd make a change over the offseason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Dave Portnoy back in the news as the WaPo unsuccessfully tried to intimidate the sponsors of his pizza party into backing out by threatening to name them in a hit piece. Didn't seem to work. The whole dynamic between Portnoy and the media class at this point is sort of like if Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner took place on the Acela. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Rodney Harrison has never added to SNF, aside from exclusively dickriding the Patriots -- And after dropping this, he can just fxxk right the hell off. An ugly and unprofessional act, which I've honestly never see on an NFL broadcast. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 My initial reaction was "wow, that's awful," but isn't that basically what Inside the NBA is? Quote 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowler Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Former ESPN national MLB writer Jim Caple passed away at age 61 from ALS and dementia. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartacat_12 Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 I've always wondered if there was a way to do an NHL version of Redzone, and I appreciate that they're trying something new, but I just don't see the format translating to hockey that well. Football is pretty straightforward. Aside from the occasional big catch or kick/punt return TD, you can generally tell when a team is about to score. Hockey is far too fast paced to have any way of predicting when a goal might be scored, unless you have a team on the power play or a game in OT. I feel like this will mostly be cutting between highlights, as opposed to having multiple live feeds going 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCall Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 6 minutes ago, spartacat_12 said: I've always wondered if there was a way to do an NHL version of Redzone, and I appreciate that they're trying something new, but I just don't see the format translating to hockey that well. Football is pretty straightforward. Aside from the occasional big catch or kick/punt return TD, you can generally tell when a team is about to score. Hockey is far too fast paced to have any way of predicting when a goal might be scored, unless you have a team on the power play or a game in OT. I feel like this will mostly be cutting between highlights, as opposed to having multiple live feeds going It'll basically be MLS 360 on Apple TV. Quote https://dribbble.com/MakaioCall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Nice logo. they really typed the crap out of it. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sec19Row53 Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Always get the shot. Quote It's where I sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 Give that man the $10,000! Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sec19Row53 Posted October 8, 2023 Share Posted October 8, 2023 3 minutes ago, the admiral said: Give that man the $10,000! An article on the shot - and stuff https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/uw/2023/10/08/wisconsin-photographer-ethan-bacon-proud-shot-rutgers/71110049007/ Quote It's where I sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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