Emrick
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Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 4:58 PM EDT
- wytopitlock
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Is Rome available to take Emrick out? I can't take it. How about teaming the play-by-play guy from one team and the color guy from the other team. They can alternate games with the p-by-p guy on home ice. Just my opinion. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 5:05 PM EDT
- 86redsox
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"87 seconds left in this period" -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 5:20 PM EDT
- brandonboys1
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Emrick is a complete tool! I mentioned this in another post- is anyone picking up on blatant and/or latant Canadian homerism by Eddie Olcykz? Is it just me, but his trying to rationalize the Rome hit was indefensible. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 5:25 PM EDT
- juniorfalcons19
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This is the finals. Yet this has been the most one sided announcing in history. Loungo makes a 80 foot dribbling save, and they rant and rave how great it was. Thomas makes a acrobatic break away save and the announcers say he nearly beat Thomas. Sedin 1 or 2 takes a shot, and it was a rocket super sonic shot. The Bruins take a shot, and we hear how well the Canucks defended. This has been a major fail for Versus and NBC. I can understand CBC or TSN being pro Canada. But come on there has too be somewhere to watch unbiased commentating In the U.S and Boston area!!!!!! -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 5:28 PM EDT
- Beorach
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Every game features some commentary from Edzo on how so-and-so could have beaten Thomas but I don't hear them talking about Luongo's glove. It must have skittered off their radar since the Olympics... -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 6:19 PM EDT
- dannycater
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It's too easy to pick on poor Doc, he just is the wrong guy to be promoting the NHL on NBC. There are several other announcers who could do a great job on these telecasts, Bob Miller in LA is just sitting around most post-seasons, superior hockey voice, knows all the players. As for color men, Brickley is superb and describes the game with knowledge rather than homerism. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 6:23 PM EDT
- burythehabs
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2 rounds we've been dealing with this now. Lets not forget the 7 game Tampa Bay slurp-fest. They're not from canada, but boy, did they love the Bolts. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 8:56 PM EDT
- Kennedy97
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When you're fed a steady diet of NESN, every other network's coverage will seem biased just by way of comparison. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 9:39 PM EDT
- SanDogBrewin
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I've had the hockey package the past few years and I like Mike Emrick he's hilarious. He's not even a homer when he calls Devil games. Eddie O has come around a bit since the Tampa series. I just block out Pierre Turtle Boy LoL! -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 9:59 PM EDT
- BadHabitude
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Doc has taken his game to another level, he dropped using the word "knifed" every other word. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 10:13 PM EDT
- Swerengen
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I think Emrick calls a great game -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 10:25 PM EDT
- tarpouch
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I've turned the sound down. cant take him anymore. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 11:13 PM EDT
- jerrynewyork
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folks in the New England area area should have the radio on and the TV sound off. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 11:15 PM EDT
- 4Adam13
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He's 100 time better than Kenny Albert.
It is obvious that the NHL wants Vancouver to win. They want the Canadian national pasttime to have a SC winner. I'm sure NBC and it's cast knows this, received the memo from the NHL, and are complying with the directive. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 11:21 PM EDT
- jerrynewyork
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In Response to Re: Emrick:He's 100 time better than Kenny Albert. It is obvious that the NHL wants Vancouver to win. They want the Canadian national pasttime to have a SC winner. I'm sure NBC and it's cast knows this, received the memo from the NHL, and are complying with the directive.
Posted by 4Adam13
yeah Kenny Albert. talk about a guy who got a job because of his last name. simply atrocious. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 11:31 PM EDT
- callodthedom19
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"And he walks into the zone with swagger." Best line of the night. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 11:39 PM EDT
- zamboni24
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In Response to Emrick:Is Rome available to take Emrick out? I can't take it. How about teaming the play-by-play guy from one team and the color guy from the other team. They can alternate games with the p-by-p guy on home ice. Just my opinion.
Posted by wytopitlockSorry -- just can't figure out the problem. If you don't like his voice -- so be it but Emrick is a passionate hockey fan and extremely knowledge about the game. His vocabulary is unique but descriptive. He caters to every type of fan realizing that some of the viewers in the finals may be neophytes. He colors the game for the newcomers without insulting the intelligence of the long time viewers. Never a homer even when doing Devils games. Think about all the potential garbage out there (Beninati, Albert, Etc). I just realized how goofy this is -- With all that transpired in the last 2 games -- I've lowered myself to talking about play-by play announcers. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/8/2011 11:44 PM EDT
- jerrynewyork
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In Response to Re: Emrick:In Response to Emrick : Sorry -- just can't figure out the problem. If you don't like his voice -- so be it but Emrick is a passionate hockey fan and extremely knowledge about the game. His vocabulary is unique but descriptive. He caters to every type of fan realizing that some of the viewers in the finals may be neophytes. He colors the game for the newcomers without insulting the intelligence of the long time viewers. Never a homer even when doing Devils games. Think about all the potential garbage out there (Beninati, Albert, Etc). I just realized how goofy this is -- With all that transpired in the last 2 games -- I've lowered myself to talking about play-by play announcers.
Posted by zamboni24
why does everyone hate Joe Beninati ? it sounds like he's enjoying his job and calls the game with passion . and i've seen enough Cap games to know he's not a homer. guy does a good job. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/9/2011 12:52 PM EDT
- dannycater
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Dan Kelly and Danny Galivan aren't walking through that door to the announcer's booth anymore....Boy, do I miss them. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/9/2011 1:01 PM EDT
- RickyHussle
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I got no beef with Emrick. I like him. Meanwhile we have Milbury on there talking about we in regards to the Bruins. I think it evens out a bit. I also agree that this series doesn't have half the slant the TB series did. I'm pretty sure they highlighted Roloson with a documentary piece in at least 4 of those games, St. Louis one time and Stamkos another. -
Re: Emrick
posted at 6/9/2011 1:08 PM EDT
- bigvig
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Id agree with that, Zamboni. I dont love Doc, but he isnt horrible, thats for sure. Now honestly guys, if Jack Edwards was calling the game.....come on. He is a HUGE homer and dumps on the other teams almost non-stop. As a Bruins fan I LOVE it, but you gotta have a guy on National TV who ISNT like that. Doc ISNT like that. Now, Pierre and Eddie on the other hand are flat out horrible, condescending "closet homers" and come off as super snide, belittling and incredibly arrogant and ignorant. I think they are so bad that they make Doc look bad because he calls the game with them.
PS: I hate Beninati too....with a PASHION! He played lacrosse up here in college at one of those smarmy, snot-nosed, stuck up schools and I think he IS that guy. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and he just rubs me the wrong way, like "Hey, I AM somebody because I was born and raised in the most expensive zip code in American and went to an overrated, super expensive college in Maine.....although Im JUST a hockey announcer". I REALLY cant stand him. Maybe Ive got him all wrong, I dont personally know the guy, but thats how he comes off to me. Like that Geico commercial where the caveman says "Its an honor" and Joe says "Yes it is".