HH: Rev finally over the cliff
Enraged at Steve Physioc because he was discussing AJ's chane to hit 4 HR in a game, and encouraged Angel fans to stay tuned.
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After hearing how bad the Angels broadcast was for so long ...
I was pleasantly surprised by how harmless they were. Very fair and admiring of the Rangers talent and success.
They weren't too terrible.
I can’t stand the SoCal stoner slurred speech patterned one, however. Interestingly enough, I heard him on a national show Sunday morning, and he sounded really nice and sincere, a cool guy. I wonder how much of that stoner affectation is for his baseball audience?
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
i don't see what's problematic
about being deferential and classy in a broadcast. calling a game in a way that is encouraging to home fans does not have to mean disrespecting the other team.
what’s weird to me is that in skimming the comments there seemed to be a lot of agreement with rev’s point of view. perhaps they are just letting off steam over other things they don’t like about physioc, but I would hardly consider a little restrained praise of andruw jones worthy of the juvenille hyperbole rev spouted.
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Jul 9, 2009 8:16 PM CDT reply actions
If Rev and the rest over there
are angry, it must be a good day to be a Rangers fan.
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by t ball on Jul 9, 2009 9:04 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
It's fairly obvious that Rev can't stand the Rangers, or anyone who gives them any credit for doing anything well
I don’t really know if this is a point of view he takes with other teams as well or if the Rangers are the only ones who get under his skin like this, but it’s pretty comical.
That said, Physioc and Hudler are an incredibly bad. I can’t stand them, but that’s just because they’re incredibly stupid and poorly articulate, not necessarily because they’re blindly homeristic (well, Hudler can be at times, when he makes 9,000 excuses for why Vlad can’t make routine plays in RF or why Ervin Santana gives up home runs but he’ll also give other teams and players he likes their due too). They lay on the Halo hyperbole plenty thick, but apparently not thick enough for Rev.
Get on base or die, Salty.
"You know, I’m playing entirely too much." - Andruw Jones
yeah
Because I’ve had the horrible misfortune of listening to the Angels TV announcers a few times, I was dumbfounded by that post of Rev’s. Their TV guys are horrendously one-sided towrds the Angels. Their radio guys are okay except when Hudler randomly fills in. Ugh.
I cannot imagine any circumstances where Adam would write a post complaining about what a disgrace Tom Grieve or Eric Nadel were for being excited for seeing baseball history. I remember Buerhle’s no-hitter last year – I can’t remember if I was listening or watching – but the Ranger announcer was geniuinely excited. He wasn’t screaming in joy, but you can tell that he was respectful of history being made.
Rev is an idiot.
Go Rice Owls!
I really just wish Lewin would stop saying
“[Pitcher A] is online for the win.”
Seriously? Do pitchers go get their laptops after they’re pulled from games? No. They don’t. That means that they are INLINE for the win.
This is easily my biggest pet peeve with a local broadcaster.
Hell...
They aren’t even “inline”; they are “in line.”
by NoNameOnCard on Jul 10, 2009 2:17 AM CDT up reply actions
You should twitter him about it
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
I assumed you meant
they were roller blading.
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by t ball on Jul 10, 2009 10:28 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well, CJ Wilson could be online for the win
Get on base or die, Salty.
"You know, I’m playing entirely too much." - Andruw Jones
And Grilli too, come to think of it.
Get on base or die, Salty.
"You know, I’m playing entirely too much." - Andruw Jones
is it really that different
than the waiting on line/waiting in line regional dichotomy? just a different preposition being used in a phrase that still makes sense and doesn’t change in meaning.
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Jul 10, 2009 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions
Regional?
There’s a whole region of people that say “on line” instead of “in line”? Which region is this? I’d like to make sure I never go there.
I’d prefer it if they said, “queued up.”
by NoNameOnCard on Jul 10, 2009 1:26 PM CDT up reply actions
It's used
in the northeast I think. Texans really shouldn’t be “fixin’ to” give anyone a hard time about regional turns of phrase.
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You shouldn't assume that I've ever used that phrase.
I have, but you shouldn’t assume it. Also, when “fixin’” is used as a replacement for “preparin’”, that phrase makes perfect sense. “In” and “on” are not interchangeable that way.
by NoNameOnCard on Jul 10, 2009 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
I didn't assume it.
It’s just a regional phrase I used for example; every region has them. And I assume you’re not assuming that every northeasterner uses on instead of in. Sense or no sense, fixin’ ta sounds just as odd to anyone not from here as on line does to anyone not from there.
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But my point isn't that it sounds weird.
I believe it is flat out wrong, like the urban phrase, “in a minute” not actually referring to 60 seconds but instead to a very, very long time. It’s just plain stupid no matter the level of colloquialism.
by NoNameOnCard on Jul 10, 2009 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
In New York City they say "on line"
it always annoyed me a little.
"You're going to love my nuts"
Vince from slap chop
Yeah
I think it’s mainly a New York/northeast thing. I only became aware of it a few years ago, and it kind of grated on me at first but I became accustomed to it. It’s just sort of silly to harbor sincere grudges against dialects other than one’s own.
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Jul 10, 2009 5:58 PM CDT up reply actions
This isn't about dialects.
It might be a turn of phrase, but it’s one that makes no sense. There’s no line to stand on.
by NoNameOnCard on Jul 10, 2009 10:47 PM CDT up reply actions
A Texas thing that bothers me
is the way insurance is pronounced, stressing the first syllable. That makes no sense to me. I am not INsured, I am inSURED.
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I have no idea what part of Texas they do this in.
In Dallas, I’ve never heard it pronounced that way.
by NoNameOnCard on Jul 10, 2009 11:47 PM CDT up reply actions
there's also no actual 'line' to speak of
should we abolish that phrasing altogether?
One of the neat things about language is the ability to convey meanings without always being literal. When you really consider it “in” is just about as arbitrary and vague a way of having relation to a so-called line as “on” is. But it’s rather easy to piece together meaning whichever preposition is used. “On line” might seem awkward to you, but that doesn’t mean it fails to make sense. It is just a different phrasing used by a different speech community than your own.
by Smoakin in the Boys Room on Jul 11, 2009 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions
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