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Blaha is awful and should be replaced
It's time this got traction. I love him, I always love listening to his calls as they're projected outside if he stadium on your way into a game. However, it's time to replace blaha in the booth. Everyone bitches about will tieman, and with good reason, but blaha is every bit as inane and non-descriptive with his game call and it's time to hire a guy who can do the entire game.
Shit, listening to the brandstatter call was considerably better than blaha's call.
Shit, listening to the brandstatter call was considerably better than blaha's call.
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Let him do Pistons games, the guy still does those with great effectiveness, but his effort during state games sucks and I'm tired of it. It's been this way for years now
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I love George. I'm incapable of criticizing him. I've met him a number of times and he is a great guy.
I will say that if you've ever been in the press box at SS it's a fucking mile and a half away. And I'm sure his eyesight isn't great at his age.
Also I lost my phone.
I will say that if you've ever been in the press box at SS it's a fucking mile and a half away. And I'm sure his eyesight isn't great at his age.
Also I lost my phone.
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George gave a great call tonight for the ages.
Guy is a broadcast legend and we are lucky to have him call Spartan games.
Guy is a broadcast legend and we are lucky to have him call Spartan games.
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WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:I love George. I'm incapable of criticizing him. I've met him a number of times and he is a great guy.
I will say that if you've ever been in the press box at SS it's a fucking mile and a half away. And I'm sure his eyesight isn't great at his age.
Also I lost my phone.
I love him too, he's a part of my childhood and wonderful individual. I just don't want to hear dead air anymore during the most impossible play in football history. It's over and that's okay.
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ass dan deserves the broad end of a baseball bat
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Bring it fuck faceThe Pantry wrote:ass dan deserves the broad end of a baseball bat
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Ass Dan wrote:It's time this got traction. I love him, I always love listening to his calls as they're projected outside if he stadium on your way into a game. However, it's time to replace blaha in the booth. Everyone bitches about will tieman, and with good reason, but blaha is every bit as inane and non-descriptive with his game call and it's time to hire a guy who can do the entire game.
Shit, listening to the brandstatter call was considerably better than blaha's call.
Next game you should tune into the radio broadcast done in American Sign and tell us what you think.
PS
I think Blaha is very good. We could have Will Tieman broadcasting both football and basketball and no one tuning in would have a clue about the score if you tuned in.
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Can someone help me find my phone? I got all distracted trying to con my wife into having sex with me
Now it's lost
Now it's lost
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It rang for a while
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WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Can someone help me find my phone? I got all distracted trying to con my wife into having sex with me
Now it's lost
My kid found it. He called his old tennis partner who's living in Germany. Said it worked good.
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Got my dog home after surgery.
We won in redic fashion. Celebrated with my kids.
Something something. Twice.
It was a great day.
I'll sacrifice my phone.
We won in redic fashion. Celebrated with my kids.
Something something. Twice.
It was a great day.
I'll sacrifice my phone.
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I'm fine with Blaha. Love, love, love Strayhorn.
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GRR Spartan wrote:Ass Dan wrote:It's time this got traction. I love him, I always love listening to his calls as they're projected outside if he stadium on your way into a game. However, it's time to replace blaha in the booth. Everyone bitches about will tieman, and with good reason, but blaha is every bit as inane and non-descriptive with his game call and it's time to hire a guy who can do the entire game.
Shit, listening to the brandstatter call was considerably better than blaha's call.
Next game you should tune into the radio broadcast done in American Sign and tell us what you think.
PS
I think Blaha is very good. We could have Will Tieman broadcasting both football and basketball and no one tuning in would have a clue about the score if you tuned in.
When I lived in Michigan I worked during the weekend a lot and had to rely on blaha a lot. He doesn't oerform the duties required of him anymore.
Strayhorn fucking rules and his reaction when Langford ran for a touchdown against osu in 2013 still gives me chills. Blaha is worse than tieman, really.
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Heat Miser wrote:I'm fine with Blaha. Love, love, love Strayhorn.
Ive fucking had it with Strayhorn. He's part of the reason George had a tough time calling the winning TD. Strayhorn ALWAYS starts whooping and cheering and otherwise stepping all over Blaha before George has had a chance to describe the play. That's not the role of the color commentator. It's like Strayhorn can't remember they're there to paint a picture of the events happening to the audience of listeners--not yell over the PBP call when something big happens.
Normally, the guy in charge of things would coach Strayhorn to shut up and wait for the PBP man to stop talking--but that's Will Tieman's role and Tieman
thinks he himself does a great job calling basketball games.
So fucking disappointed with the SSN overall. It's such a poor representation of MSU athletics.
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Ass Dan wrote:WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:I love George. I'm incapable of criticizing him. I've met him a number of times and he is a great guy.
I will say that if you've ever been in the press box at SS it's a fucking mile and a half away. And I'm sure his eyesight isn't great at his age.
Also I lost my phone.
I love him too, he's a part of my childhood and wonderful individual. I just don't want to hear dead air anymore during the most impossible play in football history. It's over and that's okay.
Were you listening to the game on the radio (and not watching on TV)?
I couldn't tell you what the guys on TV said because we were going nuts when he muffed the punt.
You went back and listened to both radio calls? And it lessened the play for you somehow? Seems like a stretch, but whatevs.
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Touchdown MSU! I love it! Blaha can say that all day, every day! I love the Strayhorn emotion on that play and I don't care if he was stomping on Blaha's call of the play! Back in the day, SCum had Bob Ufer and they loved him. Ufer would've been going bonkers and would've been beside himself with grief. If the roles were reversed, he would've been honking that touchdown horn over and over. I don't want a corporate, unbiased, announcer for the home team. I want a homer!!! That being said, I can't stand Will Tieman because he can't describe the action at all and I don't have a clue what's going on. With Blaha, I know what's going on - even when Strayhorn is going nuts and stomping on him.tGreenWay wrote:Ive fucking had it with Strayhorn. He's part of the reason George had a tough time calling the winning TD. Strayhorn ALWAYS starts whooping and cheering and otherwise stepping all over Blaha before George has had a chance to describe the play. That's not the role of the color commentator. It's like Strayhorn can't remember they're there to paint a picture of the events happening to the audience of listeners--not yell over the PBP call when something big happens.Heat Miser wrote:I'm fine with Blaha. Love, love, love Strayhorn.
Normally, the guy in charge of things would coach Strayhorn to shut up and wait for the PBP man to stop talking--but that's Will Tieman's role and Tieman thinks he himself does a great job calling basketball games. So fucking disappointed with the SSN overall. It's such a poor representation of MSU athletics.
I want a corporate, unbiased, announcer when a national broadcast team is doing the game. I hate homerism on a national level broadcast because it sends a bad message. However, each team has it's own home announcers and they should be biased for the home team because the fan bases can choose to whom they prefer to listen.
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Blaha have always been terrible doing football, but the Spartan loyalist love him.
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Blaha is better than the ABC crew that called the game. Spielman was beyond terrible yesterday. He slippedd a few times saying stuff that you say on your couch when youre rooting for a team. 'Dont get sacked here when uofm had the ball'. Also on a few plays was saying stuff that went 180 degrees against what the replay was showing. The catch that that you could see hit the groud he believed was a catch. On the peppers punt return he couldnt believe that was a block in the back when it was clearly a block on the back. Spielman acted like a buckeye that wants to get back to the old days of the big 2.
Bottom line nothing but ageism in here by assdan. Shame on you.
Bottom line nothing but ageism in here by assdan. Shame on you.
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NigelUno wrote:Ass Dan wrote:
I love him too, he's a part of my childhood and wonderful individual. I just don't want to hear dead air anymore during the most impossible play in football history. It's over and that's okay.
Were you listening to the game on the radio (and not watching on TV)?
I couldn't tell you what the guys on TV said because we were going nuts when he muffed the punt.
You went back and listened to both radio calls? And it lessened the play for you somehow? Seems like a stretch, but whatevs.
There's a deadspin link that has both radio calls on it.
Here's the link http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/msus-miracle-win-over-michigan-as-called-by-each-teams-1737144939
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steveschneider wrote:Blaha is better than the ABC crew that called the game. Spielman was beyond terrible yesterday. He slippedd a few times saying stuff that you say on your couch when youre rooting for a team. 'Dont get sacked here when uofm had the ball'. Also on a few plays was saying stuff that went 180 degrees against what the replay was showing. The catch that that you could see hit the groud he believed was a catch. On the peppers punt return he couldnt believe that was a block in the back when it was clearly a block on the back. Spielman acted like a buckeye that wants to get back to the old days of the big 2.
Bottom line nothing but ageism in here by assdan. Shame on you.
The ABC guys were great I thought. Blaha always sounds confused or lost during the game. Had nothing to do with age, has everything to do with the product
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Blaha's call was great. I dunno what you're bitching about. Strayhorn on the other hand... pretty unprofessional.
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Ass Dan wrote:steveschneider wrote:Blaha is better than the ABC crew that called the game. Spielman was beyond terrible yesterday. He slippedd a few times saying stuff that you say on your couch when youre rooting for a team. 'Dont get sacked here when uofm had the ball'. Also on a few plays was saying stuff that went 180 degrees against what the replay was showing. The catch that that you could see hit the groud he believed was a catch. On the peppers punt return he couldnt believe that was a block in the back when it was clearly a block on the back. Spielman acted like a buckeye that wants to get back to the old days of the big 2.
Bottom line nothing but ageism in here by assdan. Shame on you.
The ABC guys were great I thought. Blaha always sounds confused or lost during the game. Had nothing to do with age, has everything to do with the product
If you don't like Blaha, why are you listening to games on the radio? Is the audio on your TV out?
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Ass Dan wrote:steveschneider wrote:Blaha is better than the ABC crew that called the game. Spielman was beyond terrible yesterday. He slippedd a few times saying stuff that you say on your couch when youre rooting for a team. 'Dont get sacked here when uofm had the ball'. Also on a few plays was saying stuff that went 180 degrees against what the replay was showing. The catch that that you could see hit the groud he believed was a catch. On the peppers punt return he couldnt believe that was a block in the back when it was clearly a block on the back. Spielman acted like a buckeye that wants to get back to the old days of the big 2.
Bottom line nothing but ageism in here by assdan. Shame on you.
The ABC guys were great I thought. Blaha always sounds confused or lost during the game. Had nothing to do with age, has everything to do with the product
I don't understand how an announcer can be 'great' when he's making the wrong calls.
That was a dropped catch, they showed it in like 3 different angles and it was such an easy call to even make in real time. Even the dumb ass refrees got it right by calling it incomplete. He sat there with the benefit of replay and still couldn't get it right. It wasn't even close.
And then they showed the block from behind the back, clear as fucking day and he was saying it wasn't a block in the back.
He wasn't much better than the refs yesterday who were terrible
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He's a MAC level radio announcer. We just like the way he says "Touchdown MSU!"
On the rare occasion I'm forced to listen to a game on the radio, I prefer to listen to the other team's broadcast over Blaha.
On the rare occasion I'm forced to listen to a game on the radio, I prefer to listen to the other team's broadcast over Blaha.
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I've watched the last play so many times, I think I have the TV call memorized at this point.NigelUno wrote:I couldn't tell you what the guys on TV said because we were going nuts when he muffed the punt.
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You suck. Blaha is great!Vlad wrote:He's a MAC level radio announcer. We just like the way he says "Touchdown MSU!"
On the rare occasion I'm forced to listen to a game on the radio, I prefer to listen to the other team's broadcast over Blaha.
Agree with Steve. Spielman was awful.
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I agree. Usually, I like Spielman's take because he channels his inner Mikey Redmond and it's entertaining, but this game, he seemed to be off. I've got to think it's hard for him to keep his OSU feelings squelched, so maybe he was overcompensating. He had to be secretly jumping for joy inside on the last play, there's no way that I can see a former OSU star linebacker not relishing a total ass raping play against his most hated rival.The Pantry wrote:You suck. Blaha is great!Vlad wrote:He's a MAC level radio announcer. We just like the way he says "Touchdown MSU!"
On the rare occasion I'm forced to listen to a game on the radio, I prefer to listen to the other team's broadcast over Blaha.
Agree with Steve. Spielman was awful.
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Heat Miser wrote:I'm fine with Blaha. Love, love, love Strayhorn.
Man of few words, but he brings plenty of energy.
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We needed an AssDan thread on page 1 again. Thoughts and prayers for that man.
Pistons will have a fill-in play-by-play announcer for next four games
Pistons will have a fill-in play-by-play announcer for next four games
The Michigan State football team is headed to California, which means Michigan's NBA team will be without its television voice for a few games.
George Blaha, who handles play-by-play for the Pistons on Fox Sports Detroit and serves the same role, for radio broadcasts, for the Spartans' football team, is traveling to Santa Clara for the Redbox Bowl. Michigan State will play Oregon in that game on Dec. 31.
As a result, Blaha will miss the Pistons' next four games: a home game against Washington on Wednesday, plus road games against Indiana (Friday), Orlando (Sunday), and Milwaukee (Tuesday).
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LooseGoose wrote:We needed an AssDan thread on page 1 again. Thoughts and prayers for that man.
Pistons will have a fill-in play-by-play announcer for next four gamesThe Michigan State football team is headed to California, which means Michigan's NBA team will be without its television voice for a few games.
George Blaha, who handles play-by-play for the Pistons on Fox Sports Detroit and serves the same role, for radio broadcasts, for the Spartans' football team, is traveling to Santa Clara for the Redbox Bowl. Michigan State will play Oregon in that game on Dec. 31.
As a result, Blaha will miss the Pistons' next four games: a home game against Washington on Wednesday, plus road games against Indiana (Friday), Orlando (Sunday), and Milwaukee (Tuesday).
And shepherd sucks just as much at basketball as he does baseball
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aualum06 wrote:LooseGoose wrote:We needed an AssDan thread on page 1 again. Thoughts and prayers for that man.
Pistons will have a fill-in play-by-play announcer for next four games
And shepherd sucks just as much at basketball as he does baseball
Unpossible. His lack of baseball IQ is unmatched
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kingstonlake wrote:aualum06 wrote:
And shepherd sucks just as much at basketball as he does baseball
Unpossible. His lack of baseball IQ is unmatched
He just thought a Reggie Jackson airball was a home run
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aualum06 wrote:kingstonlake wrote:
Unpossible. His lack of baseball IQ is unmatched
He just thought a Reggie Jackson airball was a home run
I heard him say a Reggie Jackson home run was a quadruple single.
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