Defending the announcers

canuckrefguy · #11 (**permalink**) Sun Mar 27, 2005, 08:29pm

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Originally posted by rainmaker

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Originally posted by Jimgolf
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.

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.

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"