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That tool must have one hell of a bag of dirt on somebody. [roll]


"They wear leather suits..... and helmets.... and the leather suits, uh..... and they have plastic pucks on thier knees, uh..... etc etc.


Somebody at CBS actually said.... lets go with Greg  :o


Derby.... go fill out an application...PLEASE!

Well CBS is National Broadcast so A LOT of people dont have a clue about Road Racing...

I think Craig make it more exiting... anlike Spencer....

I dunno about a blackmail list, I just see this as a new advertising campaign for motogp.com - "Live video and no Greg White, can you think of a better way to spend 60 bucks?"

FTR, I watched it on motogp.com so I have no idea how bad he was, but if I know Greg I'm sure it was plenty pitiful.

i did both, one after the other.  he was painful.  really painful.  shoulda been announcing a tractor pull.

Who is Craig?  Jenny?


Having a guy who has no clue, teach the clueless, aint gonna bring the nascar crowd over to the two wheeled darkside.

To be fair, Greg White DOES know what he's talking about.  He's raced for many years and still competes with current FX champion Josh Hayes on an endurance team.  He knows what he's saying, he just doesn't know how to say it.

He very well may know...... but everytime he opens up his empanada hole.... he sounds like an a spokesman for Team  Tourette's .  It's almost like CBS bought the rights to broadcast the races, then regreted it. There are no race listings on CBS's sports page, or even a mention of it anywhere. I cant imagine anybody listening to him last week, thinking.... great pick, lets do it again. Hell.... last week it amost looked like they picked him because he was the only person who would fit into the sportcoat. (nice t-shirt poking out from under it) The only changes made this week.... he and Kevin had matching shirts this time.

too bad that can't coordinate while broadcasting.  they sounded like they were playing a bad game of verbal catch.

true.  and undoubtedly someone, somewhere with a bigger title than his told him to say, "those are leather suits.."

but i've said it before: that is unquestionably a really hard job.  i definitely couldn't do it and for the most part i know what i'm talking about.  problem is, greg can't do it either.

I worked for ESPN/NBC doing the senior skins game once. I worked on a roaving camera crew. They/we all had headphones on and there is a ton of chatter going on that does not get broadcasted. Maybe Greg was just repeating what the voices in the headphones were telling him to say.

yep.. you have to stand there, be intelligent and clever and aware and engaging.. all while 10 other people are talking in your ear, about stuff you do and don't need to pay attention to.  it's a *really* hard job.

but that doesn't mean those that suck at it should somehow be given then job anyway.  =)

get Vin Scully...he's the master ;D

i actually couldn't hear greg white over our own screaming and yelling  [laugh]
but what i did hear, it was no worse than the last race, and it was live

Kevin and Greg are the new Cotton Mcknight and Pepper Brooks.....

Cotton McKnight: I'm being told that Average Joe's does not have enough players and will be forfeiting the championship match.

Pepper Brooks: It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

(http://www.garycole.net/Films/Dodgeball/Gary_Cole_with_Jason_Bateman_in_Dodgeball.jpg)

can someone explain why whoever broadcasts the GP in the states doesn't just use the commenting from the official GP website?

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When did Rossi become Vali?

mitt

every other referance   [laugh]

poor CBS viewers must have thought Amy, Rossi and Vali were one and the same.

....CBS might as well get "The Big Swag" from Monster Garage.......


"YOU gotta be kidding me..........!"

I sent some, um, "expressive mail", to CBS, Speed, & MotoGP.   [evil]

i'm not sure what the agreement is this year, but for the previous three years, dorna paid cbs sports to produce the show AND for the airtime. maybe this reflects dorna's impression of the average american viewing audience and "motogp for stoopies" is exactly what they asked for.

another point, if you ever frequent the wera board, and greg does, the masses are constantly critical of the shaheen/spencer team as being really boring. i think that's part of the reason for greg's "excitement".

some of the GW comments on the WERA board are a hoot. I picture Greg creating mulitple login names to say nice things about himself. Gregs excitement comes across like an autistic 4 yearold at Kmart in the candy aisle.

Shaheen/Spencer are bland, but they are at least informative.

If dorna and cbs are gonna keep this up.... make it a two hour show.... and spend the first hour informing the uninformed, as to whats going on. For GW to switch from calling Rossi to Vali, without telling people "it's the same guy" just confuses people even more.

Imagine watching nascar for the first time..... it's visually exciting, and you hear the announcer say... "they wear helmets.... and suits .... and gloves. and there is a pedal on the left that is for the clutch"..... I'd turn that shit right off. I cant for the life of me believe GW was the only choice CBS had.

for the record i think that shaheen is really not bad overall.  he at least comes across as a professional, even in the moments where his moto expertise is not quite up to par.  i'll take him over THEY WEAR LEATHER SUITS any day.

imo freddie has absolutely no excuse for his pronunciations.  i know he has an accent yadda yadda.. but he's also been in this sport for a looong time.  "shinya nakano" is just NOT that hard to say.  try, dude.  at least try.  it's as if he's never even seen these words before the moment he tries to say them.

I looked for a "send us a message" section on CBS's website.

send me a linky, and I'll send  a note or two as well.

Because one guys Austrialian and the other is English.

And, to be fair, those guys accents combined with rider names, makes things a lil hard to understand, for those who dont know the game.

it was painful to hear him say dee-POON-eh over and over again.  *shudder*

How about the one guy who butched BRNO. I think he said BEE ARE NO. I watched the WSBK right after and the both them guys prononce it BREW NO

and yet, they're both wrong... "burn-oh" is correct.

10 out 10 on the rant scale - bravo  [thumbsup]

mitt

Some reading for all of you:

http://www.speedtv.com/members/greg_white

http://gregontv.com/

Greg on Greg


MY WIFE AND I SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE!

My dog, has fur, I pet it, and that thing around it's neck, it's his collar, it's used to attach a leash.

 [roll] yawn

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My wife, who watches two races a year, could not believe how dumbed down White's comments where.  I guess they are trying to create "interest" and " awearness".

The AMA cats where particularly annoying this week as well.  I thought the one guy was trying to make love to the new AMA owners at one point.

I guess we should get down on a knee and thank the TV gods that the races are on TV at all. [beer]

given that dmg finally released the rules for '09, and they sucked nowhere near as much as everybody expected, i can't really blame 'em.