i like brent musberger sometimes and keith jackson most of the time

bob costas is great for baseball games, and i like jon miller just because he seems so stupid

everyone hates billy packer

and i'm learning to hate bob fucking uecker

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 9:27 PM. Reason : yeah, this thread is probably old, i didn't search, and i don't know why its in all caps]

4/25/2006 9:27:30 PM

i fucking hate Johnny Miller, the most obvious of all captain obviouses and on top of that, thinks he knows everything

4/25/2006 9:28:28 PM

i also don't like joe morgan or jim gray, they're dicks

i don't know if karl ravich and harold reynolds count, but i like them too

4/25/2006 9:31:27 PM

Dick Vitale

/thread

4/25/2006 9:31:40 PM

You can't even start to talk about the worst commentators without mentioning John Madden.

4/25/2006 9:31:59 PM

dick vitale is the bomb

i hope you aren't saying he's one of the worst

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 9:32 PM. Reason : ^agreed]

4/25/2006 9:32:22 PM

Worst: Skip Caray -- motherfucker puts me to sleep and always talks shit about the city of New York. Asshole. Michael Kay -- is a faggot.

Best: Keith Hernandez -- is a drunk, coked up, womanizing bastard who talks shit about chicks when he is liquored up in the booth. Bill Walton -- no explanation needed.

Oh and the absolute best team is Bilas, Raftery, and McDonough. Them talking about Canada drunk out of their minds in Maui is a site to behold.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 9:34 PM. Reason : x]

4/25/2006 9:33:41 PM

I cannot stand Vitale.


Good call on Madden

4/25/2006 9:33:54 PM

I hate all of them, sports would be much better without them.

4/25/2006 9:34:37 PM

i like skip, i like chip more

don sutton blows

4/25/2006 9:35:10 PM

brian baldinger. he and kenny alberts are fox's 4th string for football broadcasts. i once heard him say "the panthers really want to come out of the locker room and reduplicate their first half success. if they can reduplicate that performance they'll win this ballgame." the first time is one thing, but twice in a row? good god dude.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 9:36 PM. Reason : ,]

4/25/2006 9:35:45 PM

also, joe buck is the man

SLAMALAMA DING DONG

4/25/2006 9:36:32 PM

vitale is the most polarizing out of any announcer i can think of, most either love him or hate him

and

Quote :

"You can't even start to talk about the worst commentators without mentioning John Madden."

is money

musburger is especially horrible when doing college bball

4/25/2006 9:36:42 PM

I loved Chip Caray when he was with the Cubbies. Now he can choke on a fork and die.

Hawk Harrelson needs to die too..

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 9:38 PM. Reason : x]

4/25/2006 9:37:31 PM

i like vitale becuase the dude LOVES college basketball

he knows more about sports than all of tww combined

so what if his voice is annoying

---

on another note, i hate female college football commentators

like that black chick who calls shitty west coast games for espn

4/25/2006 9:38:58 PM

i think pam ward still calls games for espn

4/25/2006 9:39:31 PM

joe theissman can lick my balls, along with the other guy who did sunday night football last season (not the guy who also does college basketball, he's alright)

bill walton and bill raftery both get on my nerves sometimes, but they can also be funny, so they get an 'aight' in my book

4/25/2006 9:39:36 PM

i thought the Rose Bowl commentators were really bad

i mean with all the stuff that was happening at the end, their excitement matched what would be a NFL Preseason game field goal

it's like, i saw vince young running into the endzone, and i knew it was a big deal, but they just sorta said what happened without at least acting like they cared

4/25/2006 9:40:12 PM

i hate to keep posting in this thread

but i forgot about rafferty

he's #2 on my list, dude seriously has tourette's

4/25/2006 9:40:23 PM

half the stuff that comes out of raftery's mouth going to breaks or after big plays is gibberish

i swear one time i thought he was having a seizure when he got really excited after a "little kiss"

another time i thought i heard a "little chippy hangy" in reference to a layup, what the hell

4/25/2006 9:42:09 PM

It's a well known fact he does games drunk. He was doing a live ESPN set at the tourney one year when I went in New Jersey. He pulled out a bud light tall boy during every commercial break..

4/25/2006 9:43:07 PM

i believe it

4/25/2006 9:43:49 PM

ahaha

speaking of doing games drunk

a few years ago phil ford was the third man on the tarheel radio broadcast at the acc

i've never heard one dude slur so many fucking words

you could practically hear the ice hitting the side of his glass

i would KILL to hear that audio again

4/25/2006 9:45:22 PM

holy crap i forgot about lee corso, can't stand him

at least tirico gets away from him by going to MNF, i think tirico's a solid choice there btw, i mean it could've been way worse

4/25/2006 9:47:46 PM

Rafferty & Walton are both great to listen to.

4/25/2006 9:49:10 PM

Quote :

"i like vitale becuase the dude LOVES college basketball he knows more about sports than all of tww combined so what if his voice is annoying"

i can ignore his voice for a 5 minute interview... but 2 hours of him yelling "BABY!!!" into the microphone is just too much to tolerate...

4/25/2006 9:50:17 PM

kevin harlan is awful.

"kobe bryant with the seductive fake!" [/marv albert impression]

4/25/2006 10:04:45 PM

Keith Jackson is THE voice of college football.
I actually like Corso, and the rest of the gameday crew.
Bill Raftery can crack me up or piss me off. Depends on the day and how incomprehensible he is.

Billy Packer sucks. Len Elmore sucks. Vitale annoys me, though he is passionate about the game.

4/25/2006 10:06:17 PM

Not to give too much love to some ACC rivals, but I always liked Len Elmore. And I miss Brad Daugherty. He was really good.

4/25/2006 10:11:16 PM

one time i saw brad daughtery wearing cowboy boots

he blocked out the sun

and i like elmore too

4/25/2006 10:11:58 PM

I love the Gameday crew. Tirico and Herbstreit doing the Thursday night ESPN games might be my favorite commentating team at this point. I know that Tirico will be doing MNF, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that he might somehow continue doing Thursday night as well

4/25/2006 10:52:44 PM

gus johnson beats...he can make a free throw in a 50 point blowout exciting

4/25/2006 11:01:50 PM

ahaha i wish i could remember what he screamed at the end of gonzaga's last game

it was hilarious

4/25/2006 11:02:50 PM

Worst: Larry McReynolds.

Best: Dick Vitale.

4/25/2006 11:13:59 PM

oh yeah, I HATE bobby cremins and his over the top yankee accent

4/25/2006 11:17:02 PM

the canes commentator with the greasy mullet is the man. polar opposite of tripp tracy.

4/25/2006 11:21:58 PM

^That would be John Forslund. And, yes, he's pretty good.

4/26/2006 12:02:38 AM

HE GAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111

4/26/2006 12:04:22 AM

Best:
NBA: Marv Albert, Bill Walton, Tom Tolbert, Barkley
MLB: Joe Buck, Chris Berman, Rick Sutcliffe, Harold Reynolds
Nascar: Darrell Waltrip, Benny Parsons
NFL: Moose Johnston, Troy Aikman, Joe Buck, Berman
NCAA BBALL: Rafferty, STEVE LAVIN
NCAA FBALL: Mike Tirico, Herbstreit, DR. JERRY PUNCH
PGA: David Ferherity, Gary McCord, Jim Nantz, Andy North

Worst:
NBA: Jim Gray
MLB: Joe Morgan
Nascar: Buddy Baker
NFL: Paul Maguire
NCAA BBALL: Billy Packer, any Jefferson Pilot Announcer.
NCAA FBALL: Pam Ward or any other woman trying to get in on a man's sport.
PGA: Johnny Miller and Ian Baker-Finch

4/26/2006 1:07:18 AM

I like that but you are missing Corso. He is obligatory... "There have been better teams that have outplayed us, but Lou Holtz is the only man that I ever felt, out-coached me." - Lee Corso

4/26/2006 1:22:49 AM

worst: Steve Lavin

4/26/2006 1:29:00 AM

If you hate a guy strongly, or like him strongly, chances are, they are good commentators to some, and bad commentators to others, nonetheless you feel strongly about them. It's the ones that you don't even know they exist and offer things that you don't really understand what they are talking about that are awful and useless to the industry and miss obvious things they should say or comment on.

Watch on ESPN Classic the tOSU-Clemson Gator Bowl in 1978? and listen to Keith Jackson's assessment of the Hayes punching incident. He had no idea what took place even after replay. He said something like another tOSU player received an unsportsmanlike penalty, when it clearly shows Hayes jacking that Clemson defender, on replay, who intercepted the ball. Things that are obvious to viewers that commentators fudge on (with aid of replay, monitors, statiticians, etc.) make a bad commentator to me. But the Whooooa Nellie" thing is priceless.

4/26/2006 1:42:51 AM

^wait a minute... If you're saying that Keith Jackson says a bunch of dumb shit without having any idea of what just happened on the field, then thank God. Someone else realizes that he sucks. His blind/Alzheimer-tastic assumptions are as ridiculous as Bob Costas or Jim Nantz over dramatizing a goddamn first half free throw.

4/26/2006 1:56:34 AM

packer is just plain stupid.

4/26/2006 12:18:34 PM

i fucking hate raftery

he thinks he has some kind of, i dont fucking know, neat way of calling a game thats just so fucking irritating.

he just talk thenhetalksreallyfast!!!!!!

fucking moron

4/26/2006 12:21:42 PM

i love raftery

sometimes ill watch a game im not interested in just to hear him talk.

ok, not really...but he is one of my favorite commentators.

4/26/2006 12:23:30 PM

I don't care if they're "commentators", but I hate:

1) Jim Rome
2) Doug Gottlieb

I love:

1) Mike Tirico

4/26/2006 12:25:59 PM

I fucking hate listening to Joe Morgan. All he ever talks about is how much better baseball players were in the 70s and how the game has been ruined by the smaller stadiums, juiced balls, and juiced players. Even without the obvious advantages to the hitters in baseball today, the players today pwn the players from the 70s.

Also I hate Len Elmore because his teeth are a broke like a damn Enron investor and his commentary is horrible.

Keith Jackson is the shit for football and Berman is the man for baseball.





[Edited on April 26, 2006 at 12:41 PM. Reason : s]

4/26/2006 12:40:45 PM

i like tirico, musberger the best probably

i hate packer, packer, and packer

also whoever the white sox radio guy is that they always play on sportscenter saying "you can put it on the board, YES" is ok with me just cause he says that

4/26/2006 1:33:09 PM

Gotta love Keith Hernandez after his "I love you gals, always have" apology

4/26/2006 1:34:25 PM