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02-13-2007, 10:43 AM
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Re: Commentary at its best
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Originally Posted by Deb!.
Leif Shiras, after Berdych hit a lovely backhand return winner
"He's got plenty of skills to pay the bills"
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The two standard Shiras quotes are "The first knock-down of the day!" when anyone slips over on the court, and "A little hand-to-hand combat up at the net" whenever there's a rare volleying duel.
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02-13-2007, 10:57 AM
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Re: Commentary at its best
There's a guy on eurosport, dont know his name, sounds kind of old and has a little twang of australian in him seemingly and every match wawrinka plays, he talks about his skin which is sort of hard to listen to!
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02-13-2007, 08:37 PM
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Vamos Mandy :)
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Re: Commentary at its best
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Originally Posted by Sjengster
The two standard Shiras quotes are "The first knock-down of the day!" when anyone slips over on the court, and "A little hand-to-hand combat up at the net" whenever there's a rare volleying duel.
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i don't mind Leif Shiras that much, but he was commentating all weekend with Barry Mackay, and I think he is the worst commentator of them all. What bugs me most about him is that every time a player hits a good shot, he'll say "That was Player X's best backhand of the day!" and it might be the first point of the match  |
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02-17-2007, 02:48 AM
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Re: Commentary at its best
Did Roddick suddenly grow two inches? Barry Mackay keeps saying he's 6'4. I thought he was 6'1 or 6'2 at the most.  |
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02-17-2007, 04:46 AM
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Re: Commentary at its best
Ken Thomas, calling the action on the live feed from San Jose all week
Annoying. Continually calling Safin "The Daddy Mack". Honestly I was almost glad he lost in the end.
I'm tired of (and slightly surprised by) him continually saying "The best tennis players in the world are here in San Jose" I realise he's bigging it up, but come on.
He also keeps calling it Wimbleton.
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02-17-2007, 04:50 AM
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Vamos Mandy :)
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Re: Commentary at its best
Leif Shiras and Barry Mackay were just simply ridiculous tonight during the Roddick/Spadea match.
First off was them calling Spadea "baby Agassi" and talking about his sense of "style" with positive connotations.
At one point they said that "Spadea hung on to his serve and Roddick is trying to hang onto his sanity" which was pretty amusing since it was even before Andy went haywire 
They said so many things I can't even remember them all to share with all of you  |
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02-17-2007, 06:55 AM
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Re: Commentary at its best
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Originally Posted by Deb!.
They said so many things I can't even remember them all to share with all of you |
Started getting annoying when every winner off Spadea's forehand was suddenly "his best forehand of the match." Must've said that at least 6 times.
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02-17-2007, 11:46 AM
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Re: Commentary at its best
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Originally Posted by scoobsuk
Continually calling Safin "The Daddy Mack".
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What? Oh my God. That's wrong.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Deb!.
First off was them calling Spadea "baby Agassi"
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....and the wrongness reaches previously unheard of levels on the very next post. I mean, Spadea? Baby Agassi? I'd laugh if I wasn't so  . |
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02-17-2007, 05:21 PM
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Vamos Mandy :)
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Re: Commentary at its best
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Originally Posted by General Suburbia
Started getting annoying when every winner off Spadea's forehand was suddenly "his best forehand of the match." Must've said that at least 6 times.
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That's Barry Mackay's *thing* - everything is the "Best of the match so far" even if it's only the 2nd point
That man should not be allowed to commentate, IMO. He is just almost incompetent and for me 10x worse than any other commentator out there. |
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02-17-2007, 06:02 PM
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Vamos Mandy :)
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Re: Commentary at its best
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Originally Posted by Kalliopeia
....and the wrongness reaches previously unheard of levels on the very next post. I mean, Spadea? Baby Agassi? I'd laugh if I wasn't so . |
ok I was going through the match on my DVR again to get rid of the commercials and such, and I heard it again. This is exactly what Leif Shiras said: "....for many years sort of known as a 'baby Agassi' - that kind of skill"
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03-13-2007, 05:54 PM
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Re: Commentary at its best
During the Blake-Benneteau match one of the commentators on Star Sports was describing how fit, athletic etc... Benneteau is, when the other guy said:
- You have been checking him out in the locker room.
- Oh please!
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03-13-2007, 06:21 PM
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Re: Commentary at its best
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 You know when they say, "Oh please!" they doth protest too much!  |
Yes, I was surprised he didn't laugh or say anything else after that. They just continued as if nothing had happened. |
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03-13-2007, 06:56 PM
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Re: Commentary at its best
Some British commentator during the Ferrero match yesterday (masters series TV):
"Coria used to be unbeatable, himself, on clay. Now he can't beat his grandpa."
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03-13-2007, 07:02 PM
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Re: Commentary at its best
Simon vs Santoro in Dubai this year on Eurosport 2. There was some kind of buzzing noise all the time at the start of the match.
Commentator A: Meanwhile we keep on hearing the sound of a grasshopper...
Commentator B: Well, that must be a big grasshopper!
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03-16-2007, 11:07 PM
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Re: Commentary at its best
On Star sports during the Ferrer-Djokovic match, about Djokovic:
"He's very flexible too. I've seen him do his stretching routines, he's like a gymnast."  |
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