Re: I take offense at "announcers" discussion

["JLyell" <jlyell@concentric.net>]

Bob, have to disagree with you on this one.  He must be doing something
right he has been there forever, and I have listened to him since the 70's
and think he is pretty good compared to most other announcers I have heard.

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> From: STRAUSS@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU
> To: celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: I take offense at "announcers" discussion
> Date: Monday, August 11, 1997 10:40 AM
> 
> If anyone thinks Chick Hearn is even beneath poor, they are welcome
> to him.
> 
> He is an insult. Without any doubt the poorest, more incompetent
> idiotic announce I have ever heard. And I have heard many since the
> early 1950s.
> 
> During the "Dream team", I got a subscription to the commercial
> free telecast. The games were great, but Hearn, with his
> total incompetence and gross anti-Americanism, made it almost
> intolerable. On most of my tapes, I had to turn off the volume,
> because he was so bad.
> 
> HOW BAD?
> He simply annonced as if it was a radio broadcast: "Magic takes
> the ball downcoard, dribbles around the key; looks left, hands off
> to soandso...." and on and on and on. No relief, except when he
> would hope that teams like Ghana would give the US a battle.
> Fair? Fuck fair! I remember the gross sell-out in 1970. We WON
> that game: twice. It was payback time with the dream team, and Hearn
> did his best to take that away from us.
> 
> I cannot believe the Lakers and their fans are such idiots that they
> think a radio announcer, on TV, is competent. He is a total moron.
> Silence was better than Hearn--he also had nothing intelligent
> to say about the players, either the Dreamers OR the opposition.
> 
> Well, enough flaming for a Monday.
> 
> Bob Strauss
> strauss@wcu.edu
> flames to: hearn@lalakers.com
>