Victor and Gubi

[Lhalo]

Once the team quits sucking swamp ass Victor might be a little bit more positive. This team is so terrible that even the manager over at Clown Dogs couldn't put on a happy face.

 

[yk9001]

Angels are playing bad, time to be critical of the announcers. We should just sticky one of these threads. We can combine the ten or twelve we have from this season and stick it right up there with the Introduce yourself here thread.

 

Put a sticky on this thread.  Its a great idea.

 

Only one team in 30 is going to win a World Series. The other 29 teams aren't.  We know that going in, so to hold our interest for an hour or so a day (let alone 3 hours), the product better be entertaining.  That product includes the announcers.  I think they are super important.

 

Look at the Dodgers.  They are going on 30 years without even playing in a world series.  Yet a large percentage of their fans (at least the ones in not in jail) are ecstatic to be able to watch and hear a fantastic broadcaster most nights.  He's an incredibly valuable part of the franchise.

 

I don't expect for the Angels to have a once-in-a-century announcer like Scully.  But I don't think its too much to ask for something more than "barely competent" that Gubicza and Smith are in their roles (in my opinion).

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Agree 1000%

[2112]

Scully paints a picture.  He always tells the score, which I love.

 

Too bad he paints a picture of the Dogs.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Smithward is so awful. I hate being in the car when the game is on.

[Angel Oracle]

Smithward Tentacles.......I love it! 

 

Goober = SpongeBob Gooberpants?

Edited August 27, 2015 by Angel Oracle

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Victor must be reading AW in the hotel room.

 

"Now.. i'm not being critical of Trout when I say he was flat-footed."

 

hahaha

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Smithward Tentacles.......I love it! 

 

Goober = SpongeBob Gooberpants?

 

I did not point this out, but ever since the person who said Smith is a dead ringer for Squidward, I cannot get that visual out of my head.

[Jay]

And I like Langston as well.

 

I especially like when Langston does the Captain Morgan spot, and then squawks like a parrot: "awwwwwwwwk!! Captain's orders!!"

[Vladfan]

Bigger problems than the announcers of this team IMHO.

[Chuck]

Victor Rojas is great.  I don't care for Gubi.

 

Same.

 

I would love for Victor and Langston to team up. 

 

Gubi bothers me. I prefer my Angels games on mute most of the time because of this. 

[Guest]

Same.

 

I would love for Victor and Langston to team up. 

 

Gubi bothers me. I prefer my Angels games on mute most of the time because of this. 

I don't think that would work out. It would need to be Langston and a Hudler/Goober type everyman. 

[Stradling]

In before someone btches about "ShoeShoeKaChoo"

[Guest]

I can't listen to Smith when driving home from work because I am honestly worried about falling asleep.

Kudos to the people who can somehow find something interesting in the Smith broadcast, because for 14 years, I haven't.

I used to think Smith was bad until one weekend Victor Rojas was out sick so they had Terry Smith announce the game on TV and they brought in Roger Lodge to call the game on the radio. It had to be that weekend when I was driving for seven straight hours Edited August 27, 2015 by ScottLux

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

I used to think Smith was bad until one weekend Victor Rojas was out sick so they had Terry Smith announce the game on TV and they brought in Roger Lodge to call the game on the radio. It had to be that weekend when I was driving for seven straight hours

That was brutal. Had to follow the game on my phone in silence.

[meat]

I used to think Smith was bad until one weekend Victor Rojas was out sick so they had Terry Smith announce the game on TV and they brought in Roger Lodge to call the game on the radio. It had to be that weekend when I was driving for seven straight hours

As someone who has studied and followed sports media closely for nearly 40 years, I can say with all confidence that Lodge is the worst in the business.  Past and present.

[yk9001]

Gubi bothers me. I prefer my Angels games on mute most of the time because of this. 

 

I watch a lot less of the endless string of 162 games because of Gubicza.  I don't think he's a bad guy.  I just don't think he's a good color baseball announcer.  There has to be more than "compact swing" and "keeping your hands through the zone".

[yk9001]

I used to think Smith was bad until one weekend Victor Rojas was out sick so they had Terry Smith announce the game on TV and they brought in Roger Lodge to call the game on the radio. It had to be that weekend when I was driving for seven straight hours

 

Because Smith is better than Lodge doesn't negate the fact that he's still bad.

 

Back a decade ago, I used to call Smith Drone #2.  He sounds like he's one of an assembly line of automated baseball announcers.

[yk9001]

In before someone btches about "ShoeShoeKaChoo"

 

Who says that?

[Jobu]

I watch a lot less of the endless string of 162 games because of Gubicza. I don't think he's a bad guy. I just don't think he's a good color baseball announcer. There has to be more than "compact swing" and "keeping your hands through the zone".

Every color guy says those things.

[Homebrewer]

Gubi makes me cringe at least a few times a game. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Should we start a petition?

[Stradling]

Who says that?

Gubi said it

[yk9001]

Every color guy says those things.

 

Fair enough.  The good ones also say interesting things about other aspects of the game, the players, etc.  Or just have a funny, witty personality.

[yk9001]

Gubi said it

 

I guess I don't watch enough.

 

I said it before.  I am a bigger fan of consuming Angelswin than I am the current Angels baseball product (radio/tv/attendance).

[Jobu]

Fair enough. The good ones also say interesting things about other aspects of the game, the players, etc. Or just have a funny, witty personality.

I think Gubi has some decent insight on pitching. My biggest pet peeve is how it sounds like he's trying to follow and narrate the camera shot instead of just finishing his thought on the actual baseball event. Every time they show Scioscia in the dugout he just adds "for Mike Scioscia there" to whatever he was already saying.