OT: Worst national sports commentator?
I usually think it's Skip Bayliss, but I heard Jason Whitlock on the radio today--claiming that Art Briles shouldn't be fired because "it's his job to stand up for the players--and now I think it might be Whitlock.
Stephen A. Smith is another "top-quality" candidate.
Who do you think is the absolute worst?
Definitely Jamele, Bayless or Steven a smith. For game broadcasts I would have to go with Bill Walton hands down. He is just awful.
I actually like Walton. Stephen A is the worst IMO.
Walton is funny at least, but I distinctly remember the holiday tourney last season where Michigan was playing and Walton was just degrading players, and his co-commentator wanted to kick his ass. It was hilarious, but Walton sounded like he was having a bad flashback to the grateful dead years.
he's an arrogant, liberal buffoon.
But I will give him credit for admitting the UCLA juggernaut was crooked with Sam Gilbert.
I most hate Phil Simms. I hate, for example, if a player's name is Williams, he'll pronounce it "WEE-Yums." If you talk for a living, you might try to do a better job of it. I also just cannot make myself like Jim Nantz. He has all the gravitas of Phil Dunphy yet none of the unintentional humor. You can also have Joe Buck and Bob Costas.
I actually LOLed at Jim Nance as Phil Dunphey. You nailed it.
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had slipped my mind. His voice is the aural equivalent of watching paint dry.
I mean, "watching beige paint dry. "
Oops. I meant "watching some smug-ass paint dry".
for Lorch Hall. . .
JEEM
And I have to defend Stephen A to a point.
Cutting the cord and not watching pregame/halftime/postgame shows for NBA has limited by TV exposure to him.
But on his satellite radio program? Dude is entertaining as hell. Trust me when I say that if you're battling drowsy eyes on the highway from 1-3PM, turn him on. You won't blink the rest of the afternoon.
+1 for "vacuum of intelligence"
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between Trent "Feelingsball" Dilfer and Heath "Clearly a Jackass" Evans. Mitch Williams used to be on this list too until he disappeared from MLB network.
There would be more ESPN people on this list if I still watched that tire fire of a network.
The time Joe Buck commentated a 49ers playoff game and then a couple hours later did the SF Giants playoff game. Painful
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How on earth did he do that? I assume the 49ers game was not a playoff game.
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Uhhh...football playoffs are in January!
...and I'm going to lose what little MGoPoints I have, but I have a high level of dislike for Bill Raftery when he does that talk fast/mumble thing he does.
Who is Bill Rafferty?
Here's a pretty good start:
https://youtu.be/knzkGq-Q34Y
ONIONS!!
I have listened to baseball on the radio since 1950, and he is the worst by a long-shot. Yankees usually do everything with class, this is one case where they really blew it. His broadcast partner Suzyn Waldman isn't much better. Each game is usually good for at least one major blunder, some more. And then he has his trite Yankee homerun calls - Ugh.
Just last week happened to catch a Dodger game on the MLB Network - Vin Scully was GREAT, and he works without a broadcast partner.
To be fair Scully is one of the best baseball announcers if all time. And yes, Waldman's voice is almost as punchable as Trumps face when he's saying "you're fired."
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September 9, 1965 -- When Sandy Koufax made a little Major League Baseball history.
Chris Webber is awful calling games, awful
Agreed. Him and Reggie Miller form a lethal combo of ineptitude.
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PIERRE
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The man who brought cellophane to the role of color commentator. He was so bland on football telecasts that his partner Brent Mussberger (a decent play by play guy with the personality of the Church Lady) tried to do both rolls, and was terrible at both.
Doris Burke
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Is terrible.
This should be a round of 64 tourney. There are a lot of clowns out there but Matt Millen tops my list
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OP you mean "besides Joe Buck," right?
Doc Emrick is one of the best announcers of any sport hands down. Him, Vin Scully and Jim Nantz
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And this play-by-play call from Gary Thorne in the 2009 NCAA championship game (start the video at about the 6:22 mark) remains one of the most memorable endings to any hockey broadcast I can recall.
As a Redhawk alum, i object to this clip in the biggest way. That was so devastating to watch.
Here's an original take: Doc Emrick sucks. He can't get out of his own way turning what he thinks are clever phrases. He leaves no oxygen in the booth for anyone else, and I know he's local, but I don't care. Hockeynistas consider him some kind of Ernie Harwell-type saint, but Ernie would never be so self-satisfied w/ his own vocabulary. After every verb you can almost hear Emrick smiling at himself like, "Yeah? Yeah? You see what I did there?! I said *shoveled* instead of something else. You see how clever I am?"
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aka, brent fuss-budget.
besides being painfully obvious as a life-long non-athlete, i can't stand his false drama at the most mundane occurrences in a football game, e.g., somebody doesn't convert 3rd and 5 from their 40 and has to punt. in a syrupy (that's a word. really) voice he says, 'remember this folks. this could be the critical point, the turning point in the game' and nothing happens.
Yes. Not a mud burger (autocorrect) fan.
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If you think Brent is bad you've gotta think Gus Johnson is brutal
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Brent Muffberger is a douche.
Gus rocks.
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and i know some here love the guy. too over the top for me.
at his most annoying: "You're looking *LIVE* at the Los Angeles Coliseum ..."
How does he know I haven't taped the game?
His "looking live" thing is a well-known wink to sharps who are betting the games late. Specifically, the field conditions of football games is why he started doing it, all the way back when he was a studio host (if I recall; too lazy to google it)
I never really had a problem with Musberger until that NC game when he was making the creepy remarks about the Alabama QB's girlfriend. I mean, Harry Carey used to practically shoot his wad looking at women in the Wrigley Field stands, but he was at least funny. Musberger was just pathetic and awkward.
140 comments in and no one mentioned Rod Gilmore.
For the older crowd, Tom Heinsohn. Every Pistons game he was announcing I wanted to punch him in the face.
Blaha ...more a local commentator but awful (Sparty homer)
He's awful. Worst ever. And a drunk
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Blaha is a drunk? If so, that would make me feel a lot better. In 1997, the Pistons played an exhibition game in Louisville, KY, on the same day of the M-MSU game. I was much younger at the time, so I had gotten pretty well tuned-up watching M take down the Spartans that day, and then my buddy says, "hey, let's go see the NBA exhibition game." So, we go and it's the Pistons. The crowd is tiny, so we sit basically court-side and I see Blaha doing the broadcast. After the game I go over to him and I'm all "hey George, what did you think of that football game today? Go Blue!" He did not appreciate it. I keep on him for a while, until finally I'm like "actually, I grew up in Michigan and always enjoyed your Pistons broadcasts," so then he was cool and we shook hands and stuff. But I was pretty drunk so in retrospect I figure my behavior that day was probably a lot worse than I realize. Knowing Blaha is a drunk himself, however, makes me care even less (than the skosh of a shit I presently give).
I love when he calls Pistons games, but damn it all sideways, I hate when he calls State games. He must bring extra pants and shorts to the game, because I swear he jizzes his pants after every touchdown. It could be a fucking dive play that gets in from the one yard line, and you would have thought it was an 80 yard TD bomb on 3 and 25.
Trash, reprehensible human being.
David Pollack
Hearing him speak makes it feel as if I'm about to start massively bleeding out the ears to the point of hypovolemic shock.