You Would Rather Have a Root Canal Than...

[tlb747]

Because if you have a bad hammy, then you are jacked up.

[mrbowie]

than watch coiffed heads TALK about track on TV, rather than actually WATCH ALL the athletes compete. Commentators - it's not about YOU, it's about the athletes. Just show us ALL the events.

This goes for all sports. This is why I stopped watching pro football.

[tandfman]

than watch coiffed heads TALK about track on TV, rather than actually WATCH ALL the athletes compete. Commentators - it's not about YOU, it's about the athletes. Just show us ALL the events.

This goes for all sports. This is why I stopped watching pro football.

For many years, when I used to pay attention to other sports, I turned the sound off the tv and either listened to music while watching the game, just to avoid the annoying and totally useless comments of the tv announcers, or, if I really cared about the game, listened it on the radio while watching the tv picture. Radio commentators tend to be much more informative and are much less prone to babble.

[EPelle]

I agree in principle to this... That is one reason sport on the radio won:t ever die out... sportscasters leave it up to the imagination, and they also paint vivid pictures for their audiences.

[Halfmiler2]

Any current events or history involving anything to do with the following events:

100
200
400
800
1500
mile
3000
3000St
5000
10,000
Marathon
110H
400H
Long Jump
High Jump
Triple Jump
Pole Vault
Javelin
Hammer Throw
Shot Put
Decathlon
Heptathlon
Race Walking
Indoor Track

:twisted:

That leaves the high school 1600 and 3200 which are the last thing that I want to talk about. :wink:

[gh]

For many years, when I used to pay attention to other sports, I turned the sound off the tv and either listened to music while watching the game, just to avoid the annoying and totally useless comments of the tv announcers, or, if I really cared about the game, listened it on the radio while watching the tv picture. Radio commentators tend to be much more informative and are much less prone to babble.

My next door neighbor was clearly ahead of his time. The first World Series I ever saw on TV was '56, and he used the radio sound then.

Alas, I don't know if it's just a legitimate technical issue, or if TV people (i.e., those who sell advertising) have gotten hip to too many people doing it, so they make it difficult, but virtually every sporting event now seems to have an unacceptable time delay between the two media. And it's usually the radio a couple of seconds ahead of the TV, so any sense of wonder about whether the guy will stretch out and catch the ball is gone, because they tell you beforehand on the radio.

I do notice that this phenomenon also applies to the same telecast if you're watching it on one TV through a digital box (and a hi-def screen) and on another TV with an analog box.

[tandfman]

Alas, I don't know if it's just a legitimate technical issue, or if TV people (i.e., those who sell advertising) have gotten hip to too many people doing it, so they make it difficult, but virtually every sporting event now seems to have an unacceptable time delay between the two media. And it's usually the radio a couple of seconds ahead of the TV, so any sense of wonder about whether the guy will stretch out and catch the ball is gone, because they tell you beforehand on the radio.

Ah, yes, but the advantage of that is that if you're only half paying attention, the radio will alert you to what you want to look up and see. The guy stretches out and catches the ball (or drops it), you watch it. But if it turns out to be a routine play, you continue doing whatever else you were doing with the other half of your mind. I must say, I've haven't done the tv/radio thing since they built in this time lag, but it doesn't sound like a totally negative thing.

[tafnut]

99% of my TV sports watching is now done with my back to the TV - if and when something exciting happens, I know it will be reshown 12 more times from every conceivable angle in various modes of super-slo-mo/stop action. Live T&F and the US National Men's soccer team (and even they get the behind-the-back treatment when they're losing) are all I can stand now. Even the Super Bowl (except, of course, when the commercials are on!).

[mojo]

Who knew taf was the Llwellyn Herbert of the couch potato world?

8) :P

I guess Herbert has retired? Quite nice to look at I must say...oops technically of course. :wink:

[mike renfro]

I used to do the radio for audio trick for NFL (actually for old Warriors games when Bill King was announcing), but I'm not sure I have a working radio anywhere near a TV, and mostly I am time sharing. Easy for football, not too cool for basketball. But this habit has been entrenched for at least 15 years, maybe more. On Sundays in the fall, I can watch 2 games, read the Sunday paper, do 2 crosswords and the acrostic and mostly not miss anything. When we were still going to the games (49er, back when they had a team), tailgates and transit to and from stretched the paper reading out.

[Helen S]

I used to do the radio for audio trick for NFL (actually for old Warriors games when Bill King was announcing), but I'm not sure I have a working radio anywhere near a TV, and mostly I am time sharing. Easy for football, not too cool for basketball. But this habit has been entrenched for at least 15 years, maybe more. On Sundays in the fall, I can watch 2 games, read the Sunday paper, do 2 crosswords and the acrostic and mostly not miss anything. When we were still going to the games (49er, back when they had a team), tailgates and transit to and from stretched the paper reading out.

goodness, when do you fit in the time for your exercise?