columnist decries modern stadium announcing

[gh]

basketball in particular (and he's right!)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 17E89F.DTL

[tandfman]

The SF writer may have gotten the idea from an nytimes.com piece that ran about a week ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/sport ... ounce.html

[bad hammy]

The only major pro sporting events I attend are baseball games. The sideshow entertainment stuff and announcing there are fairly tame compared to basketball, but still way to loud and constant and obnoxious for my taste.

[BillVol]

Great column. The PA man at the Boston Garden during the Bird years was Andrew Jick. Have no idea why they don't still use him as PA. He's now at Boston College... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Jick