Homer announcers....

[thekimmer]

These guys haven't been terrible but definite homers. Not fun listening. Think I'll mute.

 

[skydawg1]

Jim's voice is gone. Mute is the best option.

 

[stateguy]

Only listened to 1 inning on tv and considered starting a thread saying the same. Afraid I'm becoming a liberal with thin skin.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Aren't they the local Gamecock guys? It probably sounds the same when Bart and Jay do a game on SECN. They just know more about USCe

 

[KurtRambis4]

If you think these two

are bad, you should've heard Fri & Sat nights' broadcasters. Those two guys were homers x1000.

 

[thekimmer]

I wondered about that myself....

are bad, you should've heard Fri & Sat nights' broadcasters. Those two guys were homers x1000.

I'm just happy we can watch most games on TV now. Having lived outside of MS for the last 30 years I can well remember the days when you went into total media blackout 150 miles out from the state line. No radio and maybe one football game, a couple of hoops and maybe 1 BB game a year on TV. If I have to suffer through a few homer announcers it is well worth it.

 

[KurtRambis4]

For sure it's awesome, but

the technology is there to allow the user to pic which broadcasts they listen to. MLB has been at the forefront for over a decade. EVERY sport that offers tv packages should model it after MLB's.

 

[skydawg1]

These guys haven't been terrible but definite homers. Not fun listening. Think I'll mute.

After SCar got up 5-1, 6-1 whatever...they suddenly became very complimentary of our program/new ballpark. Said it would be the 31st best baseball stadium in America. Then Scar rolled out their closer and they drooled all over his knob in the b9th.

 

[patdog]

If you're talking about the SECN announcers, one of them was Gabe Gross, the former Auburn QB and baseball player. During the Polk II era, he once said that physically, we looked like a high school team. To be fair, physically we did look like a high school team.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

He is refering to the SECNW crew

that announced todays game.

And they should not be allowed to announce a USCe game ever again, on SECNW.

 

[CharlieWinfield]

Today's crew was Chris Burke and Roy Philpott. Burke was a shortstop at Tennessee.

 

[mount lefroy]

These guys haven't been terrible but definite homers. Not fun listening. Think I'll mute.

I didn't feel they were as much one sided as uninformed. They kept harping on not swinging at the first pitch when the first pitch kept being gut fastballs.

 

[Hump4Hoops]

I got sick of the Sunday guys talking about the talent difference.

They brought up several times how much better USC was on paper, discussing their pitching as if it were orders of magnitude better than anything we could trot out there. They also barely even mentioned that we had half of our staff hurt. The way they hyped up the "matchup" of Rooker vs each pitcher was a little strange, and the way they described us "missing" pitches that we took to the warning track was super strange.

I get that watching games on WatchESPN is almost always going to be the home team's guys, so a little bias is expected and accepted, but **** like that gets on my nerves.