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 Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:22 pm |
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http://bases.nbcsports.com/2009/11/tbs-boss-admits-chip-caray-made-some-errors.html.php
Chip Caray's awful announcing caused me to watch much of TBS'
postseason coverage with the television muted and Richard Deitsch of
SI.com recently asked Turner Sports president David Levy about the oft-
criticized play-by-play man:
Certainly, Chip made some on-the-air errors that we are well aware of,
and like we do with all our sports, we will sit down in the next two
to three weeks and evaluate everything. including our production and
our talent. We always want to make our telecasts better. We add
people. We subtract people. We add cameras. We take cameras off. I
can't make any decisions or comments today, but we will look at it the
next few weeks.
But I do think it almost snowballed to the point where some of the
sportswriters and columnists were actually missing an incredible
postseason. Instead of writing about the game and the storyline and
what was happening, it became about Chip. And I think they missed a
lot. I'm not saying he didn't make errors. Don't get me wrong. But was
it that big? Was it that big of a story? That was always my question.
I'll never know the answer to that, but obviously the writers and
columnists do.
Is an announcer doing a horrible job really a huge story? Perhaps not
in the grand scheme of things, but it's tough to ignore when TBS put
Caray in position to be the lead play-by-play man for the early
portion of the playoffs and he failed miserably. That's going to get a
ton of attention, right or wrong. Levy and Turner Sports probably
don't mind the positive attention that Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson,
and Kenny Smith get for doing a great job on TNT's coverage of the
NBA.
Levy's comment that "the sportswriters and columnists were actually
missing an incredible postseason" sums up why Caray was such a
disaster. He caused huge baseball fans like me to actually turn off
the sound accompanying the events TBS was covering and thus took away
from the games being played. You can blame that on sportswriters and
columnists, but ultimately TBS picked Caray for the job and Caray
performed horribly. Luckily it sounds like we won't have to suffer
through him again next October. |
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