OT Every Game Calabro Pulls a Boner

[Lanny]

People, people, not that kind. Get your head out of the gutter.

He makes some sort of glaring mistake every single game. It's getting old.

Tonight he claimed it was gonna be side out for Okie City when we clearly committed our 5th team foul.

 

[TBpup]

Mike and Mike made mistakes every game for years. That happens when you are talking 100 m.p.h. for 2 1/2 hours.

 

[BonesJones]

If this is all there is to complain about, they're doing a great job.

 

[Lanny]

Mike and Mike made mistakes every game for years. That happens when you are talking 100 m.p.h. for 2 1/2 hours.

No, they didn't err that often. And each of them knew more about basketball than Kevin and Lamar put together, especially Rice.

 

[Lanny]

If this is all there is to complain about, they're doing a great job.

No, there's more but that's a salient feature of their broadcasts.

 

[TBpup]

No, they didn't err that often. And each of them knew more about basketball than Kevin and Lamar put together, especially Rice.

They messed up so often a group of us made a drinking game based purely on just that. No one went thirsty.

 

[tester551]

No, they didn't err that often. And each of them knew more about basketball than Kevin and Lamar put together, especially Rice.

Rice was beyond horrific. It was well past time for him to go.

I like Barrett better than calabero, but overall the broadcast crew has improved

 

[TBpup]

Rice was beyond horrific. It was well past time for him to go.

I like Barrett better than calabero, but overall the broadcast crew has improved

Rice was amusing at times with his seemingly beverage aided style and I like Barrett as well. My issue with him was that he overly anticipated calls over and over again and always in the Blazers favor. Then he was constantly having to correct himself when on TV, it was obvious he'd made the wrong call to begin with.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'm interested in the mechanics of how they watch the game. Sometimes you can tell from commentary that they're on the monitor, because they talk about things you can't really see from Courtside. I got the feeling again today after a couple of small errors/omissions that Calabro and Hurd probably watch the game live more (like Rice did), which screens some angles or obscures some views of swipes, off-the-ball action, etc, while Barrett used the monitor more so he could comment on something the courtside fan may not see but the viewer at home could. But I don't know.

Edit: I'm with TBpup, though...what they do is hard, and a couple of minor misses during a 48-minutes game is fine by me. Dear God, we could be listening to 20+ other horrible duos--I like our guys.

 

[julius]

Mike and Mike made mistakes every game for years. That happens when you are talking 100 m.p.h. for 2 1/2 hours.

You take that back! mike and mike were an institution, and NEVER made a mistake.

 

[tykendo]

People, people, not that kind. Get your head out of the gutter.

He makes some sort of glaring mistake every single game. It's getting old.

Tonight he claimed it was gonna be side out for Okie City when we clearly committed our 5th team foul.

He's getting better, and sounds truly excited when the Blazers do well. That's good enough for me. Give him a break.

 

[julius]

No, they didn't err that often. And each of them knew more about basketball than Kevin and Lamar put together, especially Rice.

You do realize that Kevin started calling NBA games in 83, right? I think it's safe to say he knows as much, if not more, than Mike Barrett did.

 

[TBpup]

You do realize that Kevin started calling NBA games in 83, right? I think it's safe to say he knows as much, if not more, than Mike Barrett did.

I, along with everyone else on here is away of his history. It doesn't make anyone perfect. He was good enough to be the national voice for ESPN so apparently they didn't think he messed up to often.

 

[Binx]

His biggest blunder tonight was totally missing Lillard setting the All-time Blazer record for most consecutive free throws made. He never said a thing about it.

 

[Pinwheel1]

People, people, not that kind. Get your head out of the gutter.

He makes some sort of glaring mistake every single game. It's getting old.

Tonight he claimed it was gonna be side out for Okie City when we clearly committed our 5th team foul.

Thats nothing compared to the OKC announcer who call CJ "Evan Turner" 3 times in the last 2 minutes of the game. (In a game whee CJ scored 34)

 

[kingslayer]

Thats nothing compared to the OKC announcer who call CJ "Evan Turner" 3 times in the last 2 minutes of the game. (In a game whee CJ scored 34)

Shit, ET is probably gonna pay that dude off too lol

 

[SIeepwalker]

His biggest blunder tonight was totally missing Lillard setting the All-time Blazer record for most consecutive free throws made. He never said a thing about it.

............He talked about it before, when he did it, and after when he extended it

 

[SIeepwalker]

Our broadcasting crew is great too bad so many people decided to hate them for no reason

 

[Pinwheel1]

Shit, ET is probably gonna pay that dude off too lol

Actually 2 of those mistakes was the OKC announcer going off on "ET" for making a stupid foul....and of course he was not even in the game.

 

[Binx]

............He talked about it before, when he did it, and after when he extended it

No, he didn’t. I was watching when Lillard broke the record and Callabro never said a thing. He and Hurd were talking about a completely different topic.

 

[dviss1]

Mike and Mike made mistakes every game for years. That happens when you are talking 100 m.p.h. for 2 1/2 hours.

Mike and Mike NEVER said:

"Sets his tootsies"

"To the cup"

" Snuggles it in"

He also sounds like he smoked 3 packs a day.

 

[dviss1]

Our broadcasting crew is great too bad so many people decided to hate them for no reason

No. No they're not. They regularly do each other's jobs too.

Mike Barrett >> Calabro

 

[Hobbesarable]

Hey, Lanny, you mentioned Boner.

I thought you might like this.

 

[B-Roy]

............He talked about it before, when he did it, and after when he extended it

He can't shut up about it. Literally he talks about it every time Lillard shoots free throws.

 

[Lanny]

You take that back! mike and mike were an institution, and NEVER made a mistake.

Now we're getting somewhere.

 

[Lanny]

............He talked about it before, when he did it, and after when he extended it

I only recall hearing him mention it when he got to 56 and not beyond. Not saying he didn't mention it after 56 just saying I don't recall it.

 

[Strenuus]

............He talked about it before, when he did it, and after when he extended it

Actually, I was paying attention to it, and I don't remember him saying anything when he hit it... but when he went to the line afterwards for the 59th and 60th makes, he mentioned it.

 

[Lanny]

Actually, I was paying attention to it, and I don't remember him saying anything when he hit it... but when he went to the line afterwards for the 59th and 60th makes, he mentioned it.

I don't even recall that. Admittedly I was pretty engrossed in a very important and extremely close game.

 

[Strenuus]

I don't even recall that. Admittedly I was pretty engrossed in a very important and extremely close game.

I'll watch the replay, but I'm pretty sure he mentioned it before, not during, and mentioned it when he was going to extend it.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Shit, I loved Rice, but he was CONSTANTLY mispronouncing players' names. It was so bad at times it almost seemed intentional, or at least like he didn't really give a fuck.

Kind of reminds me of back in the day when Lou Boudreau used to do the radio broadcasts for the Cubs. He spent and entire season mispronouncing Ivan DeJesus' name - his own team's starting shortstop.

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