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Originally posted by canuckrefguy
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It seems to me that the general tenor of this board is that people who are not officials have no business criticizing officials because they are not qualified since they have never officiated.
Yet posters on tbis board frequently complain about announcers, even though I haven't heard of any posters being professional announcers.
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Jim -- In general, I agree with your philosophy. But I also know stupidity when I hear it and those guys today were unbelievably stupid. Just a few minor examples:
"What they should do is double team every one except Davis..." That's , let's see, 8 players on the floor?!?
"lackadaisical" pronounced as "laxadaisical". This is incredibly uneducated. Anyone who uses language for a living should be able to pronounce words like this correctly.
ditto for "prophesizing" instead of the correct "prophesying".
And then mis-pronouncing players names, the one I noticed today was "Obazuki" and "Ozbee-uki" and "Ozuki" for"Ozbuiki".
These kinds of "small" errors add up to a huge flop, in my opinion. Obviously, CBS doesn't agree. But I certainly can criticize these kinds of lapses, even though I've never been a sports announcer.
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While it's crucial for announcers not to mispronounce players' names, some of those other ones are the equivalent of a sports announcer coming to one of your games and picking apart your signals, mechanics, and the way you run.
AND....talking at the fast rate that sports announcers do, I'd really like to see someone use perfect pronunciation with the word "lackadaisical"
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There are lots and lots and lots of people who speak in public and speak very well and pronounce things correctly day after day after day after day. "Lackadaisical" isn't any more difficult than "laxadaisical" if you know in your head how to pronounce it and want to do it right. That's why I say it's uneducated. The guy doesn't even speak English well. If you want to compare it to signals, and the way I run, I will too. I've seen refs held back pretty severely because their signals and the way they ran looked weird, or were not proper. When Howard Cosell said things strangely, it was personality and it was criticized, but it wasn't because he was unconcerned about proper English. When whoever it was today says, "prophesizing" I think he may not have even graduated from high school.
And how he can get away with saying that the coach should double team everyone but Davis is beyond me. Don't viewers hear how bafflingly goofy that is?