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Post by dK on Jan 10, 2018 21:08:23 GMT -8
I thought the let-up was Jay Reese? AKA JayBird. Warren was more: "0-2, full count pitch...CRUSHED TO DEEP LEFT CENTER!!! IT'S GONE!! Oh no.. caught by the right fielder." I make fun, but I'd be a terrible announcer. Yeah, I think you're right. My bad. JayBird had an even goofier name for a curve ball. Do you remember what it was? I can't recall right now. Parker is a great baseball announcer but I get a kick out of listening to him on the radio and watching games from just behind home plate. He guesses a lot on the pitches.
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Post by dK on Jan 10, 2018 21:28:03 GMT -8
JayBird had an even goofier name for a curve ball. Do you remember what it was? I can't recall right now. Spinner. Yes. Thanks.
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Post by kersting13 on Jan 10, 2018 21:59:55 GMT -8
I tried listening to a Civil War game from the yuck channel once and lasted all of about five minutes. I really don't mind homerism; it's a fact of colleges that have their sports announcers, but when you add a lack of talent to that, it becomes unlistenable. With Allen, I could not tell what was happening most of the time except at the beginnings of plays when he remembered to announce the down and yardage.
Terrible. Just terrible.
He's awful. Rarely gives times or score, once in a while he'll throw in the down and distance but half the time it's wrong. He doesn't paint a picture of the field at all. It's really bad. And I'm not saying that just because of who he is announcing either. He's just not very good at it. Not to mention the constant "And it's caught! Touchdown Oregon! No wait! Intercepted going the other way! No, just incomplete. My bad Jorgy." Tune into Parker and within a minute you'll know the down and distance, the score, the quarter, and time left. Half the time with Allen you have to wait until a commercial break and sometimes he doesn't even give it then. The really hilarious thing about this is: I've probably listened to the equivalent of one half of a game's broadcast done by Jerry Allen (broken into probably 3 or 4 different games), and had to turn it off because Jerry is so consistently bad. I've heard all of the examples listed here of Jerry's bad announcing in those 2 hours over just a few listens.
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Post by beaverbeliever on Jan 10, 2018 22:48:58 GMT -8
Jerry Allen and his color guy actually come across well on the radio - but you're right - it's painful how bad he is about painting the whole picture. Down, distance, score, time of game, etc. He gets so caught up in the excitement that he seems to forget his audience is relying on him for all of that. He's fine for a pre and post-game show, but absolutely maddening during games.
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Post by bennyorange on Jan 11, 2018 9:17:05 GMT -8
Jerry Allen and his color guy actually come across well on the radio - but you're right - it's painful how bad he is about painting the whole picture. Down, distance, score, time of game, etc. He gets so caught up in the excitement that he seems to forget his audience is relying on him for all of that. He's fine for a pre and post-game show, but absolutely maddening during games. As far as I'm concerned the best "picture painter" ever was Darrell Aune. Particularly during the losing streak in football you could feel the frustration and the futility taking place on the field. And was awesome during the glory days of man's basketball. I always thought he got screwed though he kind of screwed himself to a certain extent. I've tried to warm to Parker but just can't seem to get there. I find his delivery boring and he seems to feel obligated to fill the space with endless chatter that has nothing to do with the game going on and he likes to throw in big words to make himself sound sophisticated. He's probably a better baseball announcer but then again I'm not a huge baseball fan.
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Post by nabeav on Jan 11, 2018 10:17:51 GMT -8
I can't believe I missed out on a Jon Warren thread! I like to poke fun at him, but I very much appreciate his dedication to providing an outlet for OSU athletics.
My favorite Warren moments are when a guest calls in to the show and refers to him as Joe because it's the "Joe Beaver Show," or whenever someone calls in to talk to Mike or makes reference about how they waited until Mike was back to make their call.
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 11, 2018 11:13:10 GMT -8
Jerry Allen and his color guy actually come across well on the radio - but you're right - it's painful how bad he is about painting the whole picture. Down, distance, score, time of game, etc. He gets so caught up in the excitement that he seems to forget his audience is relying on him for all of that. He's fine for a pre and post-game show, but absolutely maddening during games. Jerry Allen and "Jorgy" are seriously one of the worst radio duos I have ever heard, lol. But it's not because Jorgy is terrible, it's really more that they have two color guys instead of having a decent play by play guy and a color guy. Jerry gets too excited and flustered to form cogent sentences so you wind up wondering just what the hell happened exactly.
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Post by calder on Jan 11, 2018 14:43:23 GMT -8
As far as I'm concerned the best "picture painter" ever was Darrell Aune. Particularly during the losing streak in football you could feel the frustration and the futility taking place on the field. And was awesome during the glory days of man's basketball. I always thought he got screwed though he kind of screwed himself to a certain extent. I've tried to warm to Parker but just can't seem to get there. I find his delivery boring and he seems to feel obligated to fill the space with endless chatter that has nothing to do with the game going on and he likes to throw in big words to make himself sound sophisticated. He's probably a better baseball announcer but then again I'm not a huge baseball fan. I loved listening to Darrell but I still don't know what the heck a "Holy Jumping Up and Down Martha" is. [shrug] However Parker has won me over so I like him as well but I do admit missing hearing that catch phrase.
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Post by obf on Jan 12, 2018 8:15:46 GMT -8
As far as I'm concerned the best "picture painter" ever was Darrell Aune. Particularly during the losing streak in football you could feel the frustration and the futility taking place on the field. And was awesome during the glory days of man's basketball. I always thought he got screwed though he kind of screwed himself to a certain extent. I've tried to warm to Parker but just can't seem to get there. I find his delivery boring and he seems to feel obligated to fill the space with endless chatter that has nothing to do with the game going on and he likes to throw in big words to make himself sound sophisticated. He's probably a better baseball announcer but then again I'm not a huge baseball fan. I loved listening to Darrell but I still don't know what the heck a "Holy Jumping Up and Down Martha" is. [shrug] However Parker has won me over so I like him as well but I do admit missing hearing that catch phrase. Parker is my absolutely favorite. An incredible technician and masterful broadcaster, with a nice voice that isn't annoying or grating. I ALWAYS know what is going on when he is announcing and that is the true mark of a good announcer. Nothing annoys me more than catching a few minutes of a Mariners game or Blazer basketball in the car and getting out after a short ride STILL not knowing the score, smh... As for the "Let Up" and the "Spinner" I never understood why people were upset about those names... it obvious what pitches he is talking about (pretty sure he called both curves and sliders spinners since that are pretty hard to tell the difference sometimes, and most pitchers throw slurves anyways), and who doesn't like a little variety in the call! If you listen to 30+ games of Beaver baseball you will hear the terms change up and curve ball a bazillion times I like the (pun intended) Change Up of the the terms let up and spinner!
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Post by BeaverG20 on Jan 12, 2018 10:21:06 GMT -8
Parker is masterful at baseball, good at football, and I think pretty good at basketball. He tends to get emotional, but if you listen to radio broadcasts of college sports, baseball in particular, you will come away thankful that we have Mike Parker.
I was told by a duck co-worker that Allen's call of Serna's FG with 1:12 remaining in the 2006 Civil War was something like;
The snap, the kick is up and.......... he missed it!...... no.......wait...... He made it? Did he make it?............ It's good........
Or something to that effect. I was at the game, but the co-worker said it was maddening. Even he thinks Mike Parker is a stud
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Post by orangeattack on Jan 12, 2018 10:27:40 GMT -8
Parker is masterful at baseball, good at football, and I think pretty good at basketball. He tends to get emotional, but if you listen to radio broadcasts of college sports, baseball in particular, you will come away thankful that we have Mike Parker. I was told by a duck co-worker that Allen's call of Serna's FG with 1:12 remaining in the 2006 Civil War was something like; The snap, the kick is up and.......... he missed it!...... no.......wait...... He made it? Did he make it?............ It's good........ Or something to that effect. I was at the game, but the co-worker said it was maddening. Even he thinks Mike Parker is a stud Jerry Allen calls: "Mariota drops back, to Carrington who makes a move and coULD GO FOR A TOUCHDO.. incomplete." To say nothing of every play being "one move and that was six!" haha
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Post by zebraworks on Jan 12, 2018 12:20:19 GMT -8
Did Tibesar say he was optimistic he could come up with 2 more guys for his 3 man front?
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Post by messi on Jan 12, 2018 12:28:08 GMT -8
As bad as Jerry Allen is doing play-by-play on the radio, I would love to hear his reaction to great Beaver moments. Such as the Simonton's winning run in 1998, the Beaver D stopping Jonathan Stewart in 2007, the final minute in every basketball Civil War victory. Did he also do the baseball games? If so, there are many I would have love to hear, especially if he called Conforto's Grand Slam in the 2013 rubber match.
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Post by messi on Jan 12, 2018 12:30:37 GMT -8
Parker is masterful at baseball, good at football, and I think pretty good at basketball. He tends to get emotional, but if you listen to radio broadcasts of college sports, baseball in particular, you will come away thankful that we have Mike Parker. I was told by a duck co-worker that Allen's call of Serna's FG with 1:12 remaining in the 2006 Civil War was something like; The snap, the kick is up and.......... he missed it!...... no.......wait...... He made it? Did he make it?............ It's good........ Or something to that effect. I was at the game, but the co-worker said it was maddening. Even he thinks Mike Parker is a stud HAHA, oh the emotions that duck fans must have gone through in that moment in radioland. To go from Civil War winners to f%#* WE'RE LOSING
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Post by Mike84 on Jan 12, 2018 13:14:04 GMT -8
Nothing annoys me more than catching a few minutes of a Mariners game or Blazer basketball in the car and getting out after a short ride STILL not knowing the score, smh... My #1 pet peeve with announcers is when they fail to let the radio audience know what's going on. Radio sports announcers have to *always* remember that their audience a) can't see anything about the game (where it is being played, the score, the weather conditions, what just happened, etc) and b) may tune in at any time, like when getting into a car and turning on the radio. I've actually heard Jerry Allen say, on multiple occasions, "Did you see that?!". Uh, no, Jerry, I DID NOT "see that". I'm listening on the radio. Good Lord. I used to make a game out of the lack of information given during Mariner's radio broadcasts when Dave Niehaus was announcing. I would get in the the car to head home from work and see if I could make the entire 30 minute drive home without knowing the inning, the opponent, the numbers of outs, and the score. I never did quite make the entire trip without being told those things but I got close. I'm sure there were multiple times where 20 minutes elapsed without me knowing at least one of those crucial pieces of information. Mike Parker drives me a little crazy with how negative he gets when things are going poorly (I don't need the announcer to make me feel worse than I already do) but he is one of the best at always letting the audience know the situation in the game. I know that I'll only have to listen for a few minutes to know the score, quarter/inning, time, etc. He'll also often recap what happened earlier in the game.
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