Talking Heads

I plan my day around doing work all day and then watching the Rockets game as a wind down for the evening. Though Rockets game have been more stressful than recreational this season a lot of the time. Then Yao is scratched with an upper respiratory infection right before the damn game. I am still not going to get back to work.

I may have been wrong when I mentioned the NFL announcing being worse than the NBA announcing, however I have watched many more NBA games this season. The highlights of bad announcing. The NBA announcers rarely have head trauma to fall back on as an excuse. In some cases names aren't mentioned to make the person look better, and because I don't remember.

-Jazz announcer- "This team plays better with intensity and passion." Most teams play better when they are unfocused and apathetic. Thanks.

-ESPN announcer-Somehow this person felt compelled to compare Marcus Camby with Deke in his prime in Denver. I really don't understand how this is OK, both are shot blocking centers, but I have never seen an entire team avoid the paint anytime someone was in a game the way they did for about six years when Deke's finger wag was frequent. Marcus Camby is good... at getting injured. And being the defensive anchor on a team that does not play defense.

- Clyde Drexler- He called Iceland a continent. Bill Worell then proceeded to properly pronounce the jumble of vowels and consonants that is Iceland's capitol in order to show that he does indeed know which land masses are continents. One of the best insults ever because Clyde will never know that it was condescending unless he reads this post.

- Tommy Heinshon- Everytime he opens his mouth. He is the Billy Packer of the NBA.

- Bill Walton- This is reaching back, but Bill's commentary during the FIBA America's tournament that included much educational content on the current state of affairs on any country mentioned was phenomenal. It wouldn't have been so funny if not for the long silences and blank stares that it elicited from the rest of the coverage team.

- Portland's coverage team. Making jokes about Gred Oden's bobblehead not having scars on it. Um....

- The Knicks crew- Rarely do you here home commentators sound disgusted with their own team 85% of the time... during a win.

- Clyde "Walt" Frazier- I swear this man has an Abecca vocabulary list that he tries to work into each broadcast. Words get worked into game broadcast that only someone like Dennis Miller could pull off, and then they would fire him for using them correctly and making the common viewer feel stupid. Wait that happened. Clyde won't get fired, he says the words slowly enough so as not to be insulting. No one watches the Knicks anymore anyway, unless they want sit around bitch about them anyway.

- Chicago's crew- The last time I watched they still seemed like they believed in this team. That is admirable.

- The Heat's crew- Wait, I haven't watched a Heat game.

- The Mavs crew- I seethe with hatred whenever I watch these games so it is just a high pitch noise that is about as annoying as the Lamb Chop song combined with the noise that Jim Carrey makes in Dumb and Dumber.

- Sean Elliot- This man talks mad shit during games. I want to see Sean and Reggie Miller do a game with Charles Barkley. No one would be safe.

The Captain signing off for now...