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Stacker Sports- Meta Takeover- Day 54
220 sats \ 42 comments \ @grayruby 27 Aug 2023 meta
It's Sunday Funday so it's poll day.
I generally can do without play by play commentary in most televised sports. Just give me the action and some crowd noise and I am good to go. I do like colour commentary as long as it is not long winded. An expert explaining some nuance of a play after it's complete is a nice add on. However, I seem to enjoy the commentary in football more than other sports for some reason. So, how much commentary do you enjoy during televised games:
4yr old on sugar high level0.0%
A nice balanced approach 27.3%
Give me the facts or zip it27.3%
Whisper the sounds of silence9.1%
Depends on sport/commentator36.4%
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71 sats \ 1 reply \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Aug 2023
Romo I felt was a brilliant commentator, great at explaining things. Seemed to be able to call plays to viewers before the snap and explain what's happening. But there are others who spend most of their air time reminiscing over when they used to play.
I like Paul Allen for Vikings related stuff, he's a homer for sure, but that dude brings a level of excitement to his commentary that I don't get from others.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Aug 2023
I like Romo. He is pretty good.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @StackerSports 27 Aug 2023
Only commentary I need to hear is the sweet sound of @grayruby sobbing when he is the first eliminated from the Survivor Pool.
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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Aug 2023
For me it's very different between football and basketball.
I'm usually watching football with my dad, so there I prefer less commentary, because we're usually talking about the game in real time. As long as they cover what happened on plays where it wasn't super clear, I don't want anything more than occasionally pointing out something neat that fans at home might have missed.
Basketball games are pretty tedious in the middle, so a crew that has good banter or launch into epic rants (a la Jeff Van Gundy) is what I enjoy. Also, I'm usually watching basketball in the morning by myself.
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Aug 2023
Interesting that you watch basketball in the morning. Oh and awesome you still watch football with your dad. I try to catch one baseball game a week with my dad. Usually a saturday or sunday we will go over to my parents place, watch the game and then bbq. Fun times.
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Aug 2023
I have a 3 year old, so there's no chance I'm staying up late enough to watch an NBA game. This also lets me get enormous value out of league pass, since I can watch almost any game the next day and get every possession in about 30 minutes per game.
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Aug 2023
My 4 year old is a night owl. She usually goes to bed around 10pm but doesn't sleep until 11pm. We are all night owls in this family. Even when I was running my business and had to be up early I used to stay up at least until 1am and then I would just take a nap in the afternoon for half an hour before I had to go back out for the evening.
Because of this I have always loved west coast games that start at 10pm on the east coast. Better for me. Kids are in bed, my wife is usually watching something on her tablet that I have no interest in or shopping on amazon. So I can hang out with the dog in the living room and watch a game without distraction. Maybe mine some sats playing bitcoin solitaire during commercials.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Aug 2023
4 for one more day I should say. Her birthday is tomorrow. I might need to bring the 4yr (now) 5yr old stacker back to SN.
Had her post a couple times on here. People seemed skeptical, thought I was running a child exploitation grift for sats or something. Haha.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 28 Aug 2023
I grew up so far west that the early NBA games used to start before I even got home from school.
What I miss most is the all-day football Sunday. The early games started first thing in the morning and the night games ended in the late evening.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 28 Aug 2023
Football Sunday was the best as a kid. No obligations. I used to get up have breakfast. Watch the pregame show for the 1pm est games then watch whatever game was on. Usually the Bills being the closest team. A couple of my friends on my street would do the same and we would go out and throw the football around after the 1pm game for half hour or so and then return to our homes to watch the rest of the 4pm game (usually miss the first quarter or so). I usually liked this game better because it was west coast so 49ers were featured a lot. Then I would have dinner, watch the pregame for the SNF game and the game and then go to bed. I did this for years on football sundays until I was old enough to have a social life and go hang out with friends.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 27 Aug 2023
Cris Collinsworth must be stopped
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 28 Aug 2023
Haha I think you would have a lot of support on this petition.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 29 Aug 2023
I'd be content just muzzling him
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50 sats \ 23 replies \ @siggy47 27 Aug 2023
I turn off the volume. I can't stand the chatter.
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20 sats \ 22 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Aug 2023
Sometimes the commentators audio cuts out and you just hear the crowd and the sounds of the game and it is amazing. I don't know if I would enjoy it more if all games were like that or if it is like going on a short vacation.
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20 sats \ 21 replies \ @siggy47 27 Aug 2023
About 30 years ago I worked for a firm that didn't want to go to New Jersey for Jets games, but they wanted to keep the season tickets. I went to almost every home game for about 4 years and got used to not hearing play by play. With today's screen graphics you really get all the information you need.
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20 sats \ 20 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Aug 2023
Free corporate seats are always a nice perk. Around 10 years ago a buddy of mine called me a couple hours before an afternoon Blue Jays game. His CEO was supposed to take a client to the game but the guy couldn't make it so the CEO gave the tickets to my buddy and told him to take the rest of the day off and go catch the game. Fortunately I was heading to meet a client close to downtown at the time and could just make the game in time after my meeting.
I have sat right beside the bench for a hockey game (in detroit) and I have sat third row courtside for a basketball game (in toronto) but these were the best seats I have ever sat in. 2nd row in the action seats down the first base line. The blue jays don't even have these seats anymore since they expanded all the netting for fan safety. But these were two small rows of seats they used to have boxed in, in front of the stands down the first and third base line (essentially putting you on the field of play). Amazing. Thought for sure we would get a screeching liner coming our way but no luck.
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50 sats \ 19 replies \ @siggy47 27 Aug 2023
Damn. That's nice. Corporate perks. I was all excited that I basically got free seats, and they were good seats too. Not quite as good as yours. But, then reality set in: The Jets have been terrible for 50 plus years. The stadium is pretty damn cold and windy. 2 1/2 hour car ride each way. I eventually stopped accepting the gift. I went to a Monday night blowout against Buffalo, when drunk fans set fire to seat cushions. That night changed the rules for beer sales. I think they stopped at halftime after that.
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20 sats \ 18 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Aug 2023
Haha Jets fans can get a bit rowdy I guess.
I was at a Jays game that went 19 innings once. It was brutal. 6 hours and all the drunk people around me in the 6th inning were either sober or sleeping by the 19th. Haha.
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10 sats \ 17 replies \ @siggy47 27 Aug 2023
Jets fans have been stereotyped as drunken idiots. Stereotypes often have some basis in truth.
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0 sats \ 16 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Aug 2023
I don't drink anymore but in my youth I tended to overindulge especially at sporting events. I am pretty sure my buddies and I would have been part of the "drunken idiots" crowd at a number of games.
Regrettable now that I have kids. I can't stand when I take my kids to a game and people are just sloppy drunk. Have your drinks, have fun, yell at the players, refs, but don't make everyone around you uncomfortable because you are trashed and an idiot.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 27 Aug 2023
Very few commentators are enjoyable to listen to. Most are atrocious.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Aug 2023
The good ones really set themselves apart.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 27 Aug 2023
If I’m watching I tend to turn the volume down and certainly avoid too much pre- and post- commentary.
If I’m listening on the radio and they are decent commentators I like the play by play description. Sport dependent obviously!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 27 Aug 2023
Radio is totally different. Used to like listening to baseball on the radio when I had my business and was running around the city at all hours of the day and night.
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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 27 Aug 2023
Baseball on the radio. Football on the TV. Cricket either.
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