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spoon

05-07-2006, 10:47 AM

Can their coverage be any more horrible of late.  I recently caught the Red Sox vs. Jays matchup on EPSN and I had to put on the other team's home channel bc it was better balanced and informational all around than ESPN's coverage.  On top of just plain bad play by play calling, they interupted the game no matter what was going on to show every single bat of Barry Bonds bc he's 2 away from Ruth?  The first time I thought it was a joke at first bc Halladay was in a bases loaded jam and they cut away for a 1st inning bases empty 2 out at bat for Barry.  He lined out hard to the second baseman and they came back to the sports desk of Basebal Tonight (another story in itself) and they said "Barry's a little off right now bc he took that foul ball off the head in BP earlier that day"!!!!  They made excuses for him hitting a hard shot that just happened to be at an infielder bc he didn't hit a homerun?!!  These are supposed to be our baseball gurus??  Bill Pito should be shot!  Oh and we didn't find out what happened in the game until after the commercial break that Halladay got out of the jam with a double play ball.  Great coverage ESPN!!  Thank God for NESN!!!

mdr55

05-07-2006, 10:48 AM

Where's Moe at?

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 10:49 AM

We all have XM, how is there baseball coverage?  I never actually listened to a game.

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 10:50 AM

mdr55 wrote: Where's Moe at? I had a serious question, don't start shit that isn't even there in a thread.

mdr55

05-07-2006, 10:51 AM

What? It was a pre-emptive strike. I'm bring the peace.

FezPaul

05-07-2006, 10:55 AM

No matter how bad the baseball coverage is, it's always made worse by the presence of this Douche-bag. He takes the Home Run Derby, which should be a fun event, and makes it a cringe-fest with his feeble attempts at humor.http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/Chrisberman.jpg

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 10:55 AM

Whatever your motive, I don't care. Has anyone listened to the MLB on XM?  How is their coverage and commentary?  Worth all the hype?  Just curious.  If it's worth a shit I may try to leave a Yankee's game on in my car once in awhile.

mdr55

05-07-2006, 10:59 AM

OH! Shock poster.

spoon

05-07-2006, 11:01 AM

Well you knew he'd be here bc he had to see if I mentioned him.  He's the one who has a problem, I simply comment when I run into his bullshit.As for the train wreck that is Baseball Tonight, can anyone even follow it?  I can imagine the boardroom meeting discussion, "Baseball can be boring, especially for the fringe fan.  So came up with a schizo format that will spice things up and keep fans on their seats!"  I'm sure the guy who came up with it probably was a fringe fan himself as well.  What a fucking mess of a show!  90% of the show is individual highlights of homeruns or diving plays with no overall score breakdowns or league impact analysis.  I've watched at times and they don't even cover a majority of games.  I live in the NY metro area, I really don't need another channel dedicated to the likes of both New York teams, Boston, Barry Bonds and whoever hit a homerun that day.  Who won the fucking games you assholes, and how?  If not for the bottom line, almost all ESPN programming would be useless.

FezPaul

05-07-2006, 11:02 AM

They use the announcers of the home team, so if the yankees are on the road, you won't hear John Sterling. Also, Dibs and Kennedy, break in on various games on their show, and comment on the announcers, which I find pretty funny sometimes.

HBox

05-07-2006, 11:02 AM

Death Metal Moe wrote: Whatever your motive, I don't care. Has anyone listened to the MLB on XM? How is their coverage and commentary? Worth all the hype? Just curious. If it's worth a shit I may try to leave a Yankee's game on in my car once in awhile.  XM just simulcasts coverage of the radio station of the home team in any game. So, for example, if the Yankees were home playing against Boston, you'd get broadcats of the New York radio station broadcasting the game. If Boston was home playing the Yankees, you'd get the broadcast from the Boston radio station carrying the game.

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 11:02 AM

mdr55 wrote: OH! Shock poster. The original baby.

TheGameHHH

05-07-2006, 11:03 AM

XM doesn't have it's own broadcast team for baseball games, they just take the home team's AM announcers and simulcast. It just sounds crisper and is on about a 3 second delay.

mdr55

05-07-2006, 11:03 AM

Whatever man, I don't give a shit. So has
anyone listened to the NBA on XM? How's the coverage and commentary?
Is it worth all the hype? Just asking. If it's bearable I may try to
leave a Ranger's game on in my car once in awhile.......if they were still playing.

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 11:04 AM

spoon wrote: Well you knew he'd be here bc he had to see if I mentioned him.  He's the one who has a problem, I simply comment when I run into his bullshit.  Oh yea, you're the innocent babe in the woods.  You didn't find something I joked about in one of your sacred sports threads and start this today, did you?  Naa, not a swell guy like you.  You'd never start an argument out of thin air after being told you're the problem over and over again.

mdr55

05-07-2006, 11:05 AM

HA! You just contradicted yourself!

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 11:05 AM

mdr55 wrote: Whatever man, I don't give a shit. So has anyone listened to the NBA on XM? How's the coverage and commentary? Is it worth all the hype? Just asking. If it's bearable I may try to leave a Ranger's game on in my car once in awhile.......if they were still playing.  Might as well use a good poster's reply as a template.

FezPaul

05-07-2006, 11:06 AM

The worst part of Baseball Tonight is the stupid "highlight of the Day", or is that SportsCenter?Either way, trying to make a music video out of highlights is really annoying.It's like what Spoon said about trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.All they do is piss off the real sports fans, and anyone over the age of 12.

mdr55

05-07-2006, 11:10 AM

Dang you're right, malaka.bakla kaba?

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 11:11 AM

HBox wrote: XM just simulcasts coverage of the radio station of the home team in any game. So, for example, if the Yankees were home playing against Boston, you'd get broadcats of the New York radio station broadcasting the game. If Boston was home playing the Yankees, you'd get the broadcast from the Boston radio station carrying the game. That's really not a good as they make it sound.  So it's just a simulcast of the local free FM or AM station?  I mean I can't get Boston's local stuff but I was under the impression there would be XM exclusive stuff. Eh, whatever.

spoon

05-07-2006, 12:06 PM

Death Metal Moe wrote: spoon wrote: Well you knew he'd be here bc he had to see if I mentioned him.  He's the one who has a problem, I simply comment when I run into his bullshit.  Oh yea, you're the innocent babe in the woods.  You didn't find something I joked about in one of your sacred sports threads and start this today, did you?  Naa, not a swell guy like you.  You'd never start an argument out of thin air after being told you're the problem over and over again.Who even tried to convey this "swell guy" act you speak of?  I could give a fuck!  It's you Moe, and me who have an issue.  Nobody else!  Stop trying to link others and bring others into this you fucking puss!  You can't handle anything yourself can you.  How many PM have you sent out already?  How many searches to check for your name?  How many times can you just act like a fucking unfunny douche?  And do you ever, ever go outside?  Your one lame mother fucker with a set of ovaries the size of pin heads.  Come to one event please so I can finally see the myth that is you are a man.  You finally made me laugh.

Death Metal Moe

05-07-2006, 12:07 PM

Did I?  Did I really?

Bama

05-07-2006, 12:18 PM

More Moe drama. Wonderful. And as far as getting the home team coverage on XM. That's the best part. Homers for teams that I can't believe anybody cares about are fun to listen to.

spoon

05-07-2006, 01:15 PM

Hey, I take offense to that one Bama!  People do like the Blue Jays.....I can feel it!

HBox

05-07-2006, 01:19 PM

spoon wrote: Hey, I take offense to that one Bama! People do like the Blue Jays.....I can feel it!  You have to feel it, because no one's hearing it or seeing it.

Snoogans

05-07-2006, 01:26 PM

ESPN SUCKS A DICK. HOW MANY FUCKIN TIMES DO WE HAVE TO WATCH THE CUBS AND CARDINALS OR SOME COMBINATION. and baseball tonight is just awful

Bama

05-07-2006, 01:29 PM

As long as they don't pick up Braves games I don't care.

mdr55

05-07-2006, 01:29 PM

Yeah! Baseball just plain out sucks!

Snoogans

05-07-2006, 01:40 PM

Seriously, they should never have a Braves game on. Just cause ANYONE WHO WANTS TO can see them 5 nights a week. Though I will say, even the shitty end of ESPN commentators are better then the fuckin homers on TBS. DON SUTTON, YOU WERE NEVER A BRAVE. And part of me is surprised that Pete Van Wiren knew what a baseball was

Bulldogcakes

05-07-2006, 01:52 PM

spoon wrote: they interupted the game no matter what was going on to show every single bat of Barry Bonds bc he's 2 away from Ruth?  I absolutely agree. That so fucking lame, and they bend over backwards to kiss Bond's ass, and always have. Who cares what Bonds does at this point? Its not even the NL all time HR record, much less the MLB HR record. Were supposed to make a big deal out of him being #2 on the list? And that's not even addressing fans (like me) who think his accomplishment is artificial anyway. <blockquote />

cougarjake13

05-08-2006, 02:44 PM

Bulldogcakes wrote: I absolutely agree. That so fucking lame, and they bend over backwards to kiss Bond's ass, and always have. Who cares what Bonds does at this point? Its not even the NL all time HR record, much less the MLB HR record. Were supposed to make a big deal out of him being #2 on the list? And that's not even addressing fans (like me) who think his accomplishment is artificial anyway.  would it be any different if he wasn't involved in this steriods scandal ???and for stats nuts the NL homer record is 733 by aaron of course, his last 22 homers came as a milwaukee brewer in the AL

cougarjake13

05-08-2006, 02:46 PM

Snoogans wrote: Seriously, they should never have a Braves game on. Just cause ANYONE WHO WANTS TO can see them 5 nights a week. Though I will say, even the shitty end of ESPN commentators are better then the fuckin homers on TBS. DON SUTTON, YOU WERE NEVER A BRAVE. And part of me is surprised that Pete Van Wiren knew what a baseball was unfortunately i had to deal with this shit over the weekend just to watch the mets, at times i just turned off the sound

DarkHippie

05-08-2006, 03:38 PM

Wait, doesn't anyone have YES or SN?  I can spend every night in the zen of the yanks and mets, either listening to michael kay and his douche of the day, or the revolving lineup for the mets

TheGameHHH

05-08-2006, 03:46 PM

I can spend every night in the zen of the yanks and mets, either listening to michael kay and his douche of the day Don't you mean Ken Singleton, Jim Kaat, sometimes Paul O'Neil, sometimes Al Leiter, and the douche of the day Mr. Kay?

DarkHippie

05-08-2006, 03:53 PM

TheGameHHH wrote:  I can spend every night in the zen of the yanks and mets, either listening to michael kay and his douche of the day  Don't you mean Ken Singleton, Jim Kaat, sometimes Paul O'Neil, sometimes Al Leiter, and the douche of the day Mr. Kay? I have a man crush on Michael Kay.

Bulldogcakes

05-08-2006, 04:00 PM

I have a man crush on Michael Kay.  
 
<img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/Canofsoup15/Sigs/HippieRat.jpg" />
 <img width="180" height="260" border="0" src="http://images.radcity.net/5583/896050.jpg" />"Hippie, 'Sorry' doesn't fix the lamp"    Now pull your pants back up.

FUNKMAN

05-08-2006, 04:02 PM

FezPaul wrote: No matter how bad the baseball coverage is, it's always made worse by the presence of this Douche-bag. He takes the Home Run Derby, which should be a fun event, and makes it a cringe-fest with his feeble attempts at humor.<img src="http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/Chrisberman.jpg" border="0" /> we think TOO MUCH alike!no homo

Snoogans

05-08-2006, 04:39 PM

dont even get me started on berman. he comes up with a bad nickname just about as often as One Eyed Stu yells something to prove he is black

FezPaul

05-08-2006, 04:42 PM

FUNKMAN wrote: FezPaul wrote: No matter how bad the baseball coverage is, it's always made worse by the presence of this Douche-bag. He takes the Home Run Derby, which should be a fun event, and makes it a cringe-fest with his feeble attempts at humor.<img src="http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/FezPaul/Chrisberman.jpg" border="0" /> we think TOO MUCH alike!no homoBlackbird just told me the same thing. But he didn't say no homo.                 <img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/huh.gif" border="0" />

TheGameHHH

05-08-2006, 05:11 PM

dont even get me started on berman. he comes up with a bad nickname just about as often as One Eyed Stu yells something to prove he is black I just spit out a drink while reading that, hilarious. good work buddy.

Snoogans

05-08-2006, 05:22 PM

we need more of that, not cause its ego boosting, just in general. Ive made quite a few jokes and seen others make quite a few jokes that i thought were really funny and alot of them no one comments on so the people or i never know if they actually went over as well as we thought they did.

spoon

05-22-2006, 11:00 PM

Shut up and take it for what it's worth.  What, you turning into an attention puss like someone else on this board?  If it's funny it's funny, now shut up and make me laugh.  Don't cry if I don't give you props you fag!