The announcers for this Arkansas-Mississippi football game in Oxford (for the so-called SEC Network) act as if they arrived about 15 minutes before game time.
I don’t know who they are and I don’t think they’ve favored one team or another, but the play-by-play guy has already confused his quarterbacks, calling Mississippi’s Jevan Snead “Ryan Mallett” during that opening drive. He has on numerous occasions mentioned that the ball carrier gained “two yards or maybe up to the line of scrimmage.”
I would rather he get it right by waiting another second than guess badly and then change it within the same sentence. … Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but if he’s reporting what’s happening to me, I would rather he get it right.
One more thing, why do so many announcers think they have to jump on the bandwagon when someone “creates” a cute word for another perfectly good term such as a receiver “runs well in space” instead of “runs well in the open.” It strikes me as just trying to show that he’s “cool” or “with it.”
Oh, they now have reminded me that the play-by-play announcer is Dave Neal and the color commentator is former Heisman Trophy-winner Andre Ware.
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Nancy and I spent a cool but calm weekend at the lake. (Our dog, Daisy, a Lhasa apso we keep cut short, also came along.) The leaves are starting to change colors and Ouachita is up to its upper banks. No TV, no Internet. Beautiful.
It was almost a blast from the past — we listened to the Arkansas-Florida football game Saturday afternoon on the radio, via a sports station at 96.3 FM out of Fort Smith, then switched to the American League Championship Series between the Angels and the Yankees on XM Satellite Radio. We worked in a DVD of “Friday Night Lights,” the movie, in between.
It was nice. We didn’t get involved in the “blame the referees” stuff about the Razorbacks game because we couldn’t see if they were bad calls or not. The radio announcers (Chuck Barrett and Keith Jackson) said there were some bad calls, but both of those guys DO work for the University of Arkansas, so what do you expect?
I know that the Razorbacks were much-improved over previous games this year, yet they had three chances to score from inside the Gators 40-yard line in the third quarter and managed only three points. So, yes, we scared the top-ranked Gators, but we had chances to win and didn’t — we lost 23-20. That’s it. Whine all you want, but if you want to be Hog-crazy, worry about the Ole Miss game.
The rest of us will get on with our lives or continue to watch the baseball playoffs — football doesn’t really start until the World Series is over. That’s what matters to me, after my family.
Meanwhile, it’s back to work in the midst of some wonderful fall weather.
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When Philadelphia hitter Chase Utley was ruled safe at first in the ninth inning of Phillies-Rockies frigid NLDS game in Denver early Monday (CT), the ump making the sign that first baseman Todd Helton was pulled off the bag by pitcher Huston Street’s throw, TBS announcers Brian Anderson and Joe Simpson barely mentioned that it appeared that the ball may have hit Utley in the batter’s box.
If it did hit him, the ball should have been ruled foul.
They never mentioned that Utley ran down the edge of the grass along the baseline, never entering the area marked as a runner’s lane until he got to first base. If his running outside the lane prevented Street from making a good throw, the umpire could have called him out.
Utley moved the runner ahead of him to third, thus allowing him to score on the fly ball by the next hitter up, Ryan Howard. That turned out to be the go-ahead and eventual winning run.
I don’t know if either was the case, but the announcers should have done more “investigating” with replays than they did. It may have meant the difference in the game.
In either case, the TBS announcers seemed to have the attitude of “it’s late, let’s not make too much of a fuss about it.” Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe they just didn’t pay attention.
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The announcers for this Arkansas-Mississippi football game in Oxford (for the so-called SEC Network) act as if they arrived about 15 minutes before game time.
I don’t know who they are and I don’t think they’ve favored one team or another, but the play-by-play guy has already confused his quarterbacks, calling Mississippi’s Jevan Snead “Ryan Mallett” during that opening drive. He has on numerous occasions mentioned that the ball carrier gained “two yards or maybe up to the line of scrimmage.”
I would rather he get it right by waiting another second than guess badly and then change it within the same sentence. … Maybe it’s just a personal thing, but if he’s reporting what’s happening to me, I would rather he get it right.
One more thing, why do so many announcers think they have to jump on the bandwagon when someone “creates” a cute word for another perfectly good term such as a receiver “runs well in space” instead of “runs well in the open.” It strikes me as just trying to show that he’s “cool” or “with it.”
Oh, they now have reminded me that the play-by-play announcer is Dave Neal and the color commentator is former Heisman Trophy-winner Andre Ware.
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