You all are giving me a headache by stating Calabro lines. I don't watch games he calls for a reason.....
Ya, I know. I wasn't a big fan of Schonely either. They sour grapes he had towards Wheels turned me off. Climb the golden ladder was the worst too. I assumed Calabro decided to copy that to win some Blazer fans and I wouldn't know because I refuse to watch him. I imagined him saying it and wanted to puke. I did look up some other things he said for the Sonics and it makes me want to punch myself in the nads. “Good golly Miss Molly.” “Flyin’ chickens in the barnyard.” “Get on your magic carpet and ride.”
Nah I actually think all these guys are respectful of what the previous guys had used. It would be really interesting to hear @Travis Demers take on his approach to this, but I'm guessing you won't hear "BOOMSHAKALAKA" or Wheels' famous "stunned, stupefied, and shocked" or whatever he'd do. Travis is already using his own stuff. Gotta be hard to come up with original things though. Wheels didn't invent boomshakalaka but I don't think that phrase was really tied to any one guy.
It cracks me up when I see Blazers fans say something like this. You don't watch the team play because you don't like the freakin' guy calling the game? That's like saying you're not going out to a great restaurant because you don't like the lady at the reception desk. Man, turn down the sound or listen to the radio call.
Hell, I usually watch most games with the TV muted. The opposing team's announcers are worse. They just repeat everything recently said in the media about our team. So you end up hearing the same narrative over and over and over during a road trp I liked Rice but much like Walton, only in small doses. I find that the score of the game is the biggest indicator of how much the announcers are bugging me. If we are losing....the TV gets muted. If we are up big then I am not as annoyed. Similar to coming to this board when we are up or down.
I've watched enough of other teams broadcasts. Plenty of homers and irritating announcers on those calls as well.
I dont disagree. But they don't make me want to punch myself in the nads like Calabro does. He is like scratching a chalkboard to my ears. People didn't like Jordan Kent but I could listen to him and not want to punch myself in the nads.
If we had our pets spayed and neutered like Bob Barker always recommended, you wouldn't have that problem.
Last night, three times, cat fights outside my window. Im going to hook up my hose leave it on, and if they are back tonight I'll hit em good with jet nozzle. If that doesnt work I might have to bring out my pellet gun.
right across the cyclops at mid court NBC- nothing but cord Schonely was dorky but everybody ate it up.
Schonz was radio. (yes I know he did TV but he's a radio announcer.) Radio requires much more descriptive language. Wheels and Schonz painted a picture with their words so fans can "see" the game. TV announcers don't need to be as descriptive because we can already see what's going on.
