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Kr55 Messages: 9733
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
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mightyreasoner wrote on Mon, 24 April 2023 13:17 |
RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 24 April 2023 12:50 |
mightyreasoner wrote on Mon, 24 April 2023 12:37 |
CrusaderPi wrote on Mon, 24 April 2023 10:49 | Let's find out!
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Singh may not be my very favourite play-by-play callers, but I'll take him every time over the two of them. He treats viewers like they have eyes and intelligence, and you don't feel like you are being gaslighted when watching the games.
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I will go the exact opposite. I am sitting there watching the game on TV. I can see how the play is happening, what the players are do and why so I don't need the play by play guy to talk to me like I have never watched a hockey game in my life and need to have everything explained to me so I understand what I am watching. I have 40+ yrs of experience watching hockey, I know what is happening. Bring me into the game, try to make me feel the emotion and the excitement that is in the building. Draw me into the play. I don't need to be explained too about what hockey is and how it's played.
The poll results seem to be quite 1 sided. I'd be curious to know what the results would be if there was a poll put out to all fans.
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I don't know... If people can't get excited about the game for the game's sake and not because some middle-aged man is screaming all the time... that's a damning indictment on the game itself. In radio, that's all you have. It's different on TV, and I don't need someone else being overly excited for me to be excited. I know the game well enough to be excited about what I'm seeing. Most people watching do I would guess.
Broader poll, I'm sure Jack takes this in a landslide, and my guess is there would be a large overlap with those who enjoyed Don Cherry. Over the top animation and obnoxious homerism has a stronghold on many.
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Think for me, I just don't want the commentator to be a distraction. I guess everyone has their own triggers, like Adam is drawing attention to Jack going off on tangents. I think I just tune him out when he's doing that so doesn't bother me as much. I personally get annoyed when the play by play guys tone isn't matching up with what it happening. That gives me the "wth" kind of feeling that distracts from the game. Singh is hitting that note with me over and over I find.
Someone brought up Quinn, I liked him too. He said the wrong names a lot which was obviously distracting, but also funny. But he was easy to just go with and tune out because his tone was always match the moment. Maybe that's the talent of the good commentators, their ability to just be in sync with what's going on and you can pretty much tune them out and enjoy the game and listen, when needed, if want to know the name of the player or what's happening in a scramble. Cutherbert is not a super boisterous commentator, but he does that very well too, just sounding in sync with the action.
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
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