Re: Quick game thoughts...

[Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Shawn Niles <shizzjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you elaborate on Indy's announcers? What were
> they saying?

Shawn, 

Honestly, I'm put most on their insanity out of my
mind, so I won't be able to give you a compelling
reason why I think they were so horrible.  Quinn
Buckner and Al Alberts were doing the game.  One thing
that stuck out was that every shot the Celtics took
was a "heave" as described by Al Alberts' canned
"play-by-play" voice.  Also, at some point in the 1st
half, when Pierce was 3 for 6 in field goals, they
said he was "struggling to make shots."  There were
other factual inaccuracies I can't remember right now.
 

Mainly I suppose it was the outward homerism that
bothered me.  Of course, most on this list hates Tommy
for that very reason (I don't btw, I love Tommy!), yet
I think his brand of homerism is less egregious. 
First of all, Tommy is so over-the-top that it becomes
caricature at some points, almost to the extent of
performance art.  Plus, there is the always objective
Mike Gorman to keep things in line.  They really do
balance things out.  The Indiana announcers, on the
other hand, both got into the homerism act.  In my
opinion, the play-by-play man should be the straight
man, telling it like it is in as objective a manner as
possible (that said, the play-by-play man for a
regional broadcast cannot help but skew that
"objective" play-by-play broadcasting towards the home
team, since he or she covers the home team for the
whole season), while the color analyst can play it
more off-the-cuff and personal.  It's like a stand-up
act.  That's why players are color analysts and
trainded broadcasters the play-by-play analysts.  The
player can just be himself with his own unique
personality, while the play-by-play man has a duty to
perform up to industry standards.  Al Alberts, like
every other lame Alberts brother, likes to tinge his
play-by-play with subtle digs at the opposition (like
the aforementioned "heaves").  

I suppose, in the end, it could probably be just
me-the-Celtic-fan reacting to extreme Indiana-based
homerism.  But I will stand by the fact that both men
speak horribly (to my ears, aesthetically speaking)
and have little knowledge of the game.

Ryan

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