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Worst Sports Media Personality - Group G Worst Sports Media Personality - Group G
View Poll Results: Who shall advance (vote for 2)?
Hawk Harrelson
14 22.22%
Rick Reilly
36 57.14%
Jim Rome
19 30.16%
Chris Broussard
48 76.19%

04-17-2016 , 05:30 PM
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And now it's Group G. To begin, I will include a (very) brief profile of each contestant. Further information can be provided by voters to champion their douchebag.

First, we have:



Name: Hawk Harrelson
Age: 74
Employer: WGN
Specialty: Chicago White Sox commentary
Known for: Hawkisms

Next:



Name: Rick Reilly
Age: 58
Employer: ESPN
Specialty: Sports journalism
Known for: Gracing the back pages of subpar sports magazine with subpar sports articles

Thirdly:



Name: Jim Rome
Age: 51
Employer: ESPN
Specialty: Sports commentary
Known for: Getting beat by Jim Everett

And finally:



Name: Chris Broussard
Age: 47
Employer: ESPN
Specialty: Baseball
Known for: Having multiple sources
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04-17-2016 , 05:35 PM
oh god this is the group of death
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04-17-2016 , 05:35 PM
Reilly & Broussard
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04-17-2016 , 05:38 PM
Reilly is clearly the worst person in this group, which is good since he'll have no issue advancing.

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04-17-2016 , 06:22 PM
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04-17-2016 , 07:54 PM
Will wait for people to make their cases for who I pick along with Broussard, who should win the whole damn thing IMO.
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04-17-2016 , 07:56 PM
Just advance them all.
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04-17-2016 , 07:57 PM
Ya, this is by far the worst group.
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04-18-2016 , 09:13 AM
For me, Jim Rome is a slam-dunk.

I flipped a coin to decide between Reilly and Broussard. Broussard "won" the flip and got my 2nd vote.
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04-18-2016 , 10:43 AM
I wish I had been able to build a case for Hawk Harrelson before he bowed out so meekly. He is the worst play-by-play man I have ever listened to. He gives advice on hitting as if he was Clemente (Hawk hit a career .239) and talks about guys like John Danks as if they're the second coming of Sandy Koufax. He talks about his exploits on the golf course nonstop and often refuses to broadcast the game. Every time the Sox are awful it's someone else's fault, be it the economy, the tides, but most often just plain bad luck. He's also just plain mean-spirited a lot of the time, constantly complains about umpires, and rankles his coworkers. Without Tom Paciorek, an awesome color man who left in 2000, Hawk has become known for being the terrible pbp man he is. GQ named him the worst guy in baseball in 2010.

Harrelson stepped out of the broadcast booth in 86 for the White Sox. The result: During his one season as GM, Harrelson fired field manager Tony La Russa (who was soon hired by the Oakland Athletics) and assistant general manager Dave Dombrowski (who became baseball's youngest general manager with the Montreal Expos just two years later). Harrelson also traded rookie Bobby Bonilla, later a six-time All-Star, to the Pittsburgh Pirates for pitcher José DeLeón.

The only good thing one could really say about him is that his calls are appropriate in big moments but that's only because his calls in mundane moments are so ****ing overbearing an annoying. Hawk is awful and a dip**** on the air and by most accounts a complete ass off it. He deserves to make the final.

Also voted for Broussard because of course.
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04-18-2016 , 10:54 AM
Group Godawful


And yeah, most people know Hawk sucks, but if you aren't a WS fan, you'll never have to hear him.
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04-18-2016 , 04:18 PM
I really don't know anything about Harrelson and I actually liked Jim Rome when he was hosting "Jim Rome Is Burning". He's a dick on his radio show and was an even bigger one when he kept calling Jim Everett 'Chris Evert'. I hope Everett beat the **** out of him when the cameras were off.

But I think he's improved since then. Definitely enough that he shouldn't advance.
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04-18-2016 , 08:08 PM
I'm pretty sure that Chris Evert bit was staged. Rome was the OG Skip Bayless. Both are huge trolls but can be entertaining and can give good interviews, Broussard and Reilly have my votes.
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04-18-2016 , 09:30 PM
I like Jim Rome's radio show.
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04-18-2016 , 09:53 PM
Haven't seen a White Sox game in at least a decade, but enjoyed Hawk during the 1990s Sox era. Gets lifetime pass for nicknaming The Big Hurt and making those teams more fun than they probably deserved.
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04-18-2016 , 11:58 PM
I am not seeing this being the group of death. Sure, none of them are great. But there is no Berman or Cowherd in this group. Just a bunch of 8 seeds

Hawk may be bad, but I always found it funny how much he complained. Then again, I never listened to entire white sox games with him calling so
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