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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #60 on: February 15, 2010, 09:29:31 AM »

The Olympics are on?  No way!   Who is playing?
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #61 on: February 15, 2010, 10:46:40 AM »
Quote from: Slack-E on February 14, 2010, 09:53:49 PM
Seriously, Germany? Clowns?

Those costumes were terrible and boring.

One thing I love about Olympics coverage (and tennis as an aside), is most of the announcers
are ex-competitors and are in no way shy about calling out the scoring, the athletes, whoever
and actually know and can explain the subtleties of the rules.  It's so nice to watch sports
where the announcers are contributing instead of ruining the experience.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #62 on: February 15, 2010, 10:53:20 AM »
Quote from: Pre on February 15, 2010, 10:46:40 AM
Quote from: Slack-E on February 14, 2010, 09:53:49 PM
Seriously, Germany? Clowns?

Those costumes were terrible and boring.

One thing I love about Olympics coverage (and tennis as an aside), is most of the announcers
are ex-competitors and are in no way shy about calling out the scoring, the athletes, whoever
and actually know and can explain the subtleties of the rules.  It's so nice to watch sports
where the announcers are contributing instead of ruining the experience.

Yeah, but the downside is that you're watching the Winter Olympics.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #63 on: February 15, 2010, 10:57:53 AM »
Quote from: Powdered Toast Man on February 15, 2010, 10:53:20 AM
Quote from: Pre on February 15, 2010, 10:46:40 AM
Quote from: Slack-E on February 14, 2010, 09:53:49 PM
Seriously, Germany? Clowns?

Those costumes were terrible and boring.

One thing I love about Olympics coverage (and tennis as an aside), is most of the announcers
are ex-competitors and are in no way shy about calling out the scoring, the athletes, whoever
and actually know and can explain the subtleties of the rules.  It's so nice to watch sports
where the announcers are contributing instead of ruining the experience.

Yeah, but the downside is that you're watching the Winter Olympics.

Yeah, but in this thread we're talking about watching the Winter Olympics and not being generally useless.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #64 on: February 15, 2010, 11:19:13 AM »
Quote from: Pre on February 15, 2010, 10:46:40 AM
Quote from: Slack-E on February 14, 2010, 09:53:49 PM
Seriously, Germany? Clowns?

Those costumes were terrible and boring.

One thing I love about Olympics coverage (and tennis as an aside), is most of the announcers
are ex-competitors and are in no way shy about calling out the scoring, the athletes, whoever
and actually know and can explain the subtleties of the rules.  It's so nice to watch sports
where the announcers are contributing instead of ruining the experience.

Maybe.

Honestly, though, for all we know, the luge color guy talking about the two "pressure points" in turn six could be the luge equivalent of Joe Morgan talking about how there's no such thing as a "check swing" in the MLB rulebook.

I'll stick with the theory that announcer quality is negatively correlated with audience knowledgeability.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #65 on: February 15, 2010, 06:13:13 PM »
Quote from: Dr. Nguyen Van Falk on February 15, 2010, 11:19:13 AM
I'll stick with the theory that announcer quality is negatively correlated with audience knowledgeability.

Meh, to some degree.  At the same time, as I mentioned above, tennis tends to have
actual excellent announcers.  NFL games have horrible ones.  I think the idea that there
aren't good announcers is just goofy.  I've followed a whole ton of winter sports this
year and I think for the most part the announcers really do know what they are talking
about.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #66 on: February 15, 2010, 06:48:24 PM »
Quote from: Pre on February 15, 2010, 06:13:13 PM
Quote from: Dr. Nguyen Van Falk on February 15, 2010, 11:19:13 AM
I'll stick with the theory that announcer quality is negatively correlated with audience knowledgeability.

Meh, to some degree.  At the same time, as I mentioned above, tennis tends to have
actual excellent announcers.  NFL games have horrible ones.  I think the idea that there
aren't good announcers is just goofy.  I've followed a whole ton of winter sports this
year and I think for the most part the announcers really do know what they are talking
about.
Might it be that a lot of these sports have readily quantifiable metrics about what makes a "good" showing? And that they are often individual sports, which means you can't be praised/blamed for teammates?
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #67 on: February 16, 2010, 08:04:16 AM »
Courtesy of Down Goes Brown...

So a Georgian luges into a bar...
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #68 on: February 16, 2010, 08:30:24 AM »
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #69 on: February 16, 2010, 02:43:02 PM »
USA 1, Switzerland 0 after one period.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #70 on: February 16, 2010, 03:32:41 PM »
Quote from: Slack-E on February 16, 2010, 02:43:02 PM
USA 1, Switzerland 0 after one period.

USA up 3 now.  USA USA!
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #71 on: February 16, 2010, 03:38:14 PM »
Quote from: Pre on February 16, 2010, 03:32:41 PM
Quote from: Slack-E on February 16, 2010, 02:43:02 PM
USA 1, Switzerland 0 after one period.

USA up 3 now.  USA USA!

GO ISA
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #72 on: February 16, 2010, 03:51:18 PM »
3-1 now.
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #73 on: February 16, 2010, 04:15:45 PM »
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Re: Winter Olympics 2010
« Reply #74 on: February 16, 2010, 07:13:34 PM »
Norway 0, Canada 0 after one period.

Color me shocked.
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