I have watched many, many games which he has announced, and I have never heard him say anything stupid, or make any mistakes, or act like an idiot, or anything like that. In fact, I have never heard him say anything at all because I never have the sound on. For those of you who haven’t tried that, do your self a favor and do it. Just leave the sound off, and see if you can figure out what’s happening and not happening in any sporting event. (OK, I’ll concede that in curling, you need an announcer to point out some of the nuances.)

I haven’t listened to an announcer in many, many years. (I think the first one I turned off was Tim McCarver, who was a skilled baseball player but who is even worse than Joe Morgan as an announcer.) I’m pretty sure I have been able to figure out what was taking place without the word’s eye view being provided by people who are causing Chick to be spinning like a top in his grave.

Do yourselves a favor. Turn the sound down. (Don’t use the mute, because you will get the subtitles and you’ll have to suffer with that crap, too.)

Is that you can’t hear the squeaking of the shoes or the crowd noise. I would like an option where I can select which sound feeds to use during the game. I’d almost always turn off the broadcasters. The only reasons to hear them are (1) so that I can yell at them when my team is not having a good day and (2) so that I can impress my friends by making a comment before the color analyst does.

I have never liked Packer much. His cliches: “nice piece of coaching,” “trading baskets” etc. grate like fake fingernails across a chalkboard. But I could deal with an occasional cliche if he had any enthusiasm at all for the most exciting event in sports. Instead, he was too serious, too negative, too unfriendly.

So CBS made a good decision in firing Packer. But why, oh why, couldn’t they also have announced that Jim Nantz would spend the entire month of March preparing for the Masters. The man can call a game of golf, but he calls college basketball as if it were golf. Golf without Tiger no less. Please give him a leave of absence.

at CBH at about the 1:40 mark in the video he literally walks onto the court and uses it as almost like a timeout setting up how he wants the Defense…just keep watching him, as Morrison gets stuck in the corner hes right there in a defensive stance on the sideline haha, gotta love the man’s intensity.

Why CBS has not realized that Gus Johnson is by far the most knowledgeable and most fun to listen to is beyond me.

A bit off topic but aren’t we all happy that SC was able to qualify DeRozan at long last. This guy was packed, had his passport in hand, and was on the way to europe, when somehow, SC “made it happen”. How do they do it, and right in the middle of the potential OJ/Bush mess?
Bill

Still gives me goosebumps after all this time….