i love reading stuff about stupid announcers and/or writers. i probably miss a lot of stuff though, as do others. i figure if we post them here we can better circulate the stupidity and maybe even start some serious movements to get these buffoons top be held accountable for the idiocy they spew.

this one is courthesy of joe morgan, found on the great site FJM...

I wonder what the grander scheme of things is.

I was told I would be banned if I included the phrase "Skip Bayless said" in any of my posts, so I cannot participate.

The grander scheme of things would be a 5-game series in which the team loses 0-12, 4-3, 3-2, 1-7, 4-3.

The site FJM mentions today is great also:


tradearod because we are idiots

I am pretty sure the most recent post from 'confused' in the 'pro arod' section is Ken or one of the others from FJM.

watching pti today and the clowns were setting percentages on upcoming events.

chargers beat the pats: korn said 25, wilbon said 10
tiger wins upcoming event: both said 100

i dont remember the others but it was obv these clowns would be broke if they ever bet on sports.

On ESPN tonight, Lou Holtz said that if Notre Dame loses to Michigan on Saturday, they'd have a tough time making a BCS Bowl. I'm not making that up. Look in the Week 3 college football thread for confirmation.

fwiw i don't think they're supposed to be handicapping these events. it's pretty clear they're taking a fan's point of view on these events.

lol...that guy only sounds like he ******ed, he looks like he should be in some institution for old people.

ya it sounds idiotic but hes right.

Similarly, if LSU goes undefeated, they have a great chance at a BCS bowl game.

Even if that is the case, Kornheiser(sp?) isn't off by that much (relatively speaking of course). 3.5 point fav wins about 65% off the top of my head.

craig

did you get ahold of lous script for tomrrow?

agreed. like in 2k and whatever when they didnt. and when auburn didnt go that one year.

I tried to post a photo of Yahoo's sports page which says "The impact of Greg Oden's injury will be felt throughout the entire NBA as well as Portland but photobucket is down right now for some reason, so you all just get the synopsis.

ESPN was on in the poker room, with the sound off, but while discussing the upcoming ND/Mich game, the graphic on the bottom of the screen said:

ND/MICH: THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME BETWEEN NON-RANKED TEAMS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY

Now I know that ESPN is in the hype business, but they outdid themselves with that one.

i was watching when that went up youtalkfunny

I wonder if they had a poll or something

hmmmmmm

did ESPN really say that 'most important game between non-ranked teams' crap?

Wow.

Just when I thought the bashing is way too much and out of hand they end up doing something so ridiculous that it makes me thing there isn't nearly enough bashing of them.

No self-respecting announcer or organization would ever say this.


In other news: I think some of the things posted already really aren't THAT stupid.
Not that some guys aren't pretty dumb nor is it that hard a freaking job just to talk about sports and have SOME kind of a clue...but when guys are on the air that much there's bound to be some slip-ups or just some plain-old dumb things said.
I would be scared to death for you guys to listen to me when I was a broadcast or if I ever get back into broadcasting again. I said some pretty dumb stuff daily I think....and still do around here I guess.

Regarding Joe's "grander scheme of things"...it might be one of the few times I partly agree with him.
TEX scores 30 on BAL. Then if they lose 4-2, 5-3, 7-2 and 5-1 they stilll have a + run-diff. I'm not quite as impressed by the overall run-diff or win-projection type stats as maybe I should be.

It's about winning it on the field and some runs really are more valuable than others.

Bob, run differential over a season is obviously different than run differential over a 5 game series where they score 30 in one game. Come on now.

Right, and the win differential of aces over 7-2 isn't really that important because sometimes the flop comes 7-7-2. Come on now. Teams that have a larger positive run differential are likely going to be teams that win a lot of games over time.

Unless you think there is some unique talent or skill set that allows certain types of teams to regularly win by ten and lose by one. Its not impossible, and "bullpens" is probably a good candidate, but I think this effect gets washed out for the most part. Probably has SOME impact, reducing the usefulness of run differential, but RD is still a good predictor.

Not to mention that he said OPS means nothing as well.

When was the last time OPS hit a grounder to the right side with a runner on 2nd and nobody out? How many times has OPS gone out there without his best stuff and turned in a gutty 7 IP to carry his team to victory? OPS doesn't hustle to 1st on every grounder, hit the cut-off man, get his uniform dirty, or any of the other things that real baseball players do. Did OPS steal 2nd in game 4 of ALCS? Didn't think so. [censored] OPS. (/end old-timey [censored] stupidity)

yeah, but OPS did win a few HR titles and derbys back in the day. OPS for president!

The whole "Pythagorean W-L" thing holds very little water for me. Run differential is a "decent indicator" of how "good" a team is. But how "good" a team is isn't directly related to how many games they will win.

Some control pitcher going out and "not having it" on a given day, say a Jamie Moyer type, getting pummelled for 9 runs in 2-2/3 innings would be something I'd just shrug off as a fan. It's just a loss. But I do agree that over the course of a season, it should flatten out a bit.

Unless your team has 4 aces and 1 chimpanzee with an ERA of 15.56. Obviously your Pythagorean W-L will vary greatly from your actual W-L.

Something stupid I heard earlier this year, when Orestes Destrade was in Boston after Felix Hernandez beat down Daisuke he was all excited and said (paraphrasing) "Everyone was looking forward to a great game today, most maybe thinking DICE K would win, but I tell ya, us Latinos sure do know how to crash a party ."

Bolded part was verbatim. What an absurd thing to say, in more ways than one.