Toward the end of last night’s Dolphins-Jets game, Mike Tirico was talking about Dolphins rookie backup QB Pat White and how they’re developing him. Now, he could have said that White was working with a smaller playbook in order to learn the offense. Instead, Tirico noted that White “has a very little package”.
I was waiting for “White Decks Tirico” to appear in the postgame scroll at the bottom of the screen.
That can also imply “… but he hates practicing and conditioning and following the playbook”.
When Joe Carter was color commentator for the Cubs, he opined on how an opposing pitcher was difficult to hit because he pitched with “such precise . . . (long pause while he tried to think of a different noun, and couldn’t) . . . precision!”
That doesn’t strike me as obviously wrong. I mean, I take it that it IS wrong, but every team probably gives its version of the Wildcat a special cutesy name.
OJ Simpson once said “To win this one, the Dolphins are simply going to have to outscore their opponents.”
Can’t NFL games still end in Ties? I thought they played one quarter of “sudden death” and if neither team scores, then the game is a tie.
Anyways, I remember listening to a St Louis Cardinals Baseball game on the radio and Jack Buck and Mike Shannon were obviously had their share of Budwesier.
“And the batter hits the ball to deep, deep centerfield…[dramatic pause]…FOUL BALL”
hmmm, that ball must have hooked or sliced about 50 yds.
This one comes up a lot, but it’s actually got a specific meaning, and one that makes sense in game terms: the team’s defense has shown limited ability to stop the other team’s offense, so their offense needs to score many many points in order to win the game.
It’s not the greatest piece of rhetoric ever (and pretty cliched by this point), but not obvious idiocy.
“David Dwork is the first player in baseball history to have at least 2,500 career hits, 400 home runs, a .300 batting average, .450 slugging percentage, .700 OPS, and 10 stolen bases.”
SO WHAT?
The announcer said they should not have called timeout because the other team would have too much time to score. OT is sudden death, so if they score, it does not matter how much time is left on the clock.
This season Pat and Ron had recently retired Bears cornerback (who had been to the Pro Bowl) Jerry Azumah in the booth.
Pat: We’d like to welcome former Bear and Pro-bowler Jerry Azumah to our broadcast.
Ron: So, did you ever bowl a 300 game?
About a year ago, I heard part of a Steelers game on the radio when the announcer claimed that the Steelers coaches were “looking for a reach around on that play.”
Love to see how you draw that one up.
Not many people heard Bill Maas do color for the Panthers-Vikings game back in 2006. (Thank God!) Many of us who did still shudder at the thought.
Soon after the game, a blog went up celebrating the amazing commentary from the game. The blog is no longer up, but the Internet Archive still has a copy. (Note: I need to highlight the text to get it to show up). This blog didn’t get everything, nor did it do sufficient justice to the quality camera work during the game. No less than 3 times during the game did a QB take a 5 step drop off of the TV screen to the side. A moment later the ball could be seen flying across the screen to a receiver off the screen on the other side. The camera didn’t move from the line of scrimmage until after the ball got to the receiver.
There was also some NASCAR person doing play-by-play. As far as I could tell, he had never done play-by-play for football at any level before this game.
But if they don’t score, there is finite amount of time left in the game. If 11minutes is on the clock, the point* is moot. But if there is 1 minute and 30 seconds left in the OT period, then the opposing team has to get into the “hurry-up offense.”
To me, and to everyone I’ve told this to, the first thought was the use of “package” to mean “male genitalia.” And a stallion would have a particularly impressive package. It’s not wrong, just funny. Of course, it’s not funny if that usage doesn’t occur to you.
This would be even stupider if it was in a college game where the OT (may be multiple) is untimed.
Actually I can see what they mean by that. Some players look intense and serious all the time, and very frustrated when things go badly. He looks more relaxed.
I bet some of them play because, as Dave Barry said (about his own job of writing for a newspaper) “otherwise I’d have to get a real job.”
NASCAR does play-by-play? What do they say, “yep, third time around the track . . . fourth time…”?
I said the exact same thing while watching that game. :smack:
At least the announcer realized his idiocy and corrected himself.
There is a guy on Vancouver radio (Blake Price) who has a strange conception of how probability works. For example, in a game between the Red Sox and Blue Jays he predicted a Boston win, even though the Jays were starting Halliday. The reason: The Jays had won the previous two games in the series. According to Price, it was just too unlikely that the Blue Jays would win three in a row in Boston, so bet against the Jays. Naturally Halliday threw a three-hit shutout.
My favorite example: This past August, there was a chance that the Canucks might sign Marian Hossa. He is a very good hockey player, but Price was against it. Hossa had played in last season’s Stanley Cup final as a Red Wing, and in the previous season’s final as a Penguin. “What are the statistical odds of going to the final three years in a row with three different teams? What are the statistical odds? It’s astronomical!” etc. He was convinced that any team that signed Hossa couldn’t get to the final because of Hossa’s recent success at getting to the final.
A few weeks ago, I think the guy calling the Chiefs game (against the Raiders, I believe) said something about “the whole bowl of wax”.
I can do a pretty decent John Madden impression. My favorite thing to say, and it is important to note that Madden has never actually said this, is, “You’ve got to make plays. The team that makes the most plays usually scores the most points. And the team that scores the most points usually wins.”