Adam wrote on Thu, 22 May 2025 10:31

Gator21 wrote on Wed, 21 May 2025 17:24 Adam wrote on Wed, 21 May 2025 10:54 Suomalainen wrote on Tue, 20 May 2025 20:47 Gator21 wrote on Tue, 20 May 2025 18:15 Adam wrote on Mon, 19 May 2025 23:26 Gator21 wrote on Mon, 19 May 2025 14:18 Jack is 1000x better than Singh, glad we appear to be done with that debacle. Singh was a complete DEI hire, shoe horned into a position he really didn't deserve I'm of course shocked to hear you dropping "DEI hire" in to the conversation. You always seem the most tolerant and accepting of all Oilfans! Thanks for the compliment...I am very tolerant and accepting. I just don't accept people being elevated to a position they so obviously don't deserve based on factors other than merit. It's not like Singh was some up and comer who had paid his dues. Singh was boring, monotone and overall not very good at PxP He was plucked out of obscurity and put into a prime position...replacing Jack for all national and playoff games much to the dismay of the majority of fans until SN couldn't ignore the backlash anymore and was finally corrected this season Actually, having met him when I was at Mt Royal (being a couple of the only Oilers fans walking around campus), he was doing broadcasts back then and then was on local TV in Cowtown. He paid his own way to Toronto for the weekly Punjabi broadcasts like 15 years ago. I don't like his style, but saying he didn't put in the work is pure ignorance. Yeah - it's easy (and kind of racist) to just assume that someone hasn't done any work to get somewhere when you don't make any effort to see what their history is. It's not like Sportsnet just picked a random guy off the street here to fill some quota. Has nothing to do with race a fkn clown…unless you’re talking about the sole reason he was promoted See - again, you don't know enough about his background, but you've assumed due to his race that he was just handed the job. You don't know who else was considered at the same time as him, or why Sportsnet selected him but he was doing the job at a local level first. Despite your lack of insight there, you've once again claimed that his race is the only reason he had that job - which is more telling about you than about him.

In this case we know he was a really bad broadcaster, which of course is an opinion, when he was handed the late night HNIC games. He's mostly adequate now after a decade and half on the job, but has been demoted to the #4 guy. This is the problem with DEI. It's impossible to know if anyone has earned their job on merit because we've decided race and sex is now more important to the hiring problem. C'est la vie, we voted for this.

Personally I think it's far more important to be able to talk about the costs and benefits to decisions like these rather than trying to shut down all conversation by lobbing accusations around. In this case, Gator might just want his hockey games to come with, you know, good play by play.

Personally, I'm just glad he stopped singing after goals.

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