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poker player
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 Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: Jim Rome's take on why WC fans drink so much |
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| Like you are going to be able to sit through a 1-0 crapfest without a heavy beer fog surrounding you? You have to be plastered to get through that garbage. |
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TheFonz
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: North Georgia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Jim Rome's take on why WC fans drink so much |
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| Like you are going to be able to sit through a 1-0 crapfest without a heavy beer fog surrounding you? You have to be plastered to get through that garbage. |
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Jim Rome is the worst sports commentator in America. He refers to his show in the third person and tries to have this reputation of an "in your face" sports commentator. He will brag about how great he is and goes on a shameless self promoting rant at least once a day. The guy pauses in between every comment so there is a second of dead air every other second. He rarely has an interesting topic but when he does he beats it to death. How this guy has a show on ESPN radio and television is simply amazing. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| Ahhh American sports journalism at its best. |
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poker player
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: On the river
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:20 am Post subject: Re: Jim Rome's take on why WC fans drink so much |
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| TheFonz wrote: |
| How this guy has a show on ESPN radio and television is simply amazing. |
Not to mention about 400 stations in the US and Canada.
http://www.jimrome.com/home/apr/affiliate_list.html |
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JAWINSEOUL
Joined: 19 Nov 2005
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: Re: Jim Rome's take on why WC fans drink so much |
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| Like you are going to be able to sit through a 1-0 crapfest without a heavy beer fog surrounding you? You have to be plastered to get through that garbage. |
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Pundits and sports commentators aren't paid to make middle-of-the-road pronouncements. They get paid to make extreme, hair raising remarks that make people either love them or hate them. That is what draws in listeners, not some wishy-washy unbiased, truth laden examination of the facts. In short, they are professional trolls. YHBT. HTH. HAND. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: |
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I remember Jim Rome as cutting edge a dozen years ago.
(A half-notch up from the Babe and JT in the Brickhouse.)
These days he's just cut.
The same guys who agree with him find chess boring: lack of patience, strategy, and pattern development recognition. American football can be quite analytical, or just sensational. Basketball is a game of flow too, but with instant gratification. Hockey is midway between basketball and soccer in terms of mental commitment. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Me and the citizens of the other 179 odd nations in the world don't know who Jim Rome is, nor do we care. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Me and the citizens of the other 179 odd nations in the world don't know who Jim Rome is, nor do we care. |
If you aren't a sports fan and aren't connected digitally to sports radio stations, then yeah, you don't know. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Rome's show has gone to shit...
He drags on bits WAY too long, is all about hyping himself or his other shows and turns every interview these days into a love fest..
Time for him to go. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| jaganath69 wrote: |
| Me and the citizens of the other 179 odd nations in the world don't know who Jim Rome is, nor do we care. |
If you aren't a sports fan and aren't connected digitally to sports radio stations, then yeah, you don't know. |
If your idea of sports consists purely of baseball, basketball and NFL, maybe. Most of the rest of the world don't give a crap. Sports fan my fat arse. PS, forgive me if the digital stations I listen to don't give a toss either. |
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