OT Every Game Calabro Pulls a Boner

[Boob-No-More]

I predict we will win the rest of our games and steal the #2 seed from Golden State.

Now you're talking!

BNM

 

[THE HCP]

I might start posting like that next September. Just so everybody will be nice to me.

 

[jlprk]

↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ This guy is RUINING the board!!!! ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

 

[PDXFonz]

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.

The argument about Calabro aside..
Let's not act like ESPN sets the standards high.

 

[PDXFonz]

Calabro should desperately try every phrase he finds in this thread.

"Westbrook down the lane. Look out folks! He pulls a boner, and that's a turnover on the Thunder as Turner handles it on the break."

 

[BonesJones]

You have to test me after all this time? I give and receive more shit than anybody here in NerdVille. You know that.

Awww poor HCP!

 

[TBpup]

The argument about Calabro aside..
Let's not act like ESPN sets the standards high.

They used to....but good point about them more recently. They've become a joke.

 

[Hoopguru]

I predict we will win the rest of our games and steal the #2 seed from Golden State.

I think the Thunder lose the rest of their games and drop out of off's.
Look at their schedule....

 

[dviss1]

I haven't heard anyone substitute cup for basket. Occasionally I hear the word hoop or bucket but never cup. That would be dumb.

Listen better to Calabro. He says it probably 7+ times a game.

 

[dviss1]

Colabro says it ALL the time, and it drives me nuts every stinking time. It makes no sense. A cup in golf is about the same diameter as a coffee cup, and like a coffee cup, it has sides and a bottom. The rim in basketball is way bigger than a coffee cup, and has no rigid sides and no bottom. Calling it a cup makes no sense at all. Makes me think I'm watching golf when Calabro says it, which makes me want to sit on my hands and whisper, not leap to my feet, clap and cheer my fool head off.

So, poor analogy that kills excitement, instead of encouraging it. Especially when there are already plenty of perfectly usable things to call it: basket, rim, hoop etc.

But I jump up and clap my hands and cheer my fool head off anyway. 50 years as a basketball fan is not to be dissuaded by a play-by-play announcer co-opting a term from another, less exciting sport.

BTW, this is my only real complaint about Colabro. Other than this, he's fine. Not perfect, but perfectly fine.

BNM

The MF said.... Sets his tootsies....

GET HIM GONE.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I'd rather watch the games on mute than listen to Calabro and Hurd.

 

[Hoopguru]

I never liked him in Seattle and he always look at PTown as inferior to Seattle. I used top spend lots of time there and heard him on KJR.
He's here because of Paul and Colabro got is sidekick here.
Colabro however, used to be viewed as an equivalent NBA all star with the NBA broadcasting group.

I think we must give then the chance and Im sure he will go on us in time.
I didn't like Wheels at all when he took Shonz place. Seemed really homie to me but I did get used to him and like him know.
You can pick your friends but we are stuck with our relatives.....

 

[julius]

I never liked him in Seattle and he always look at PTown as inferior to Seattle. I used top spend lots of time there and heard him on KJR.
He's here because of Paul and Colabro got is sidekick here.
Colabro however, used to be viewed as an equivalent NBA all star with the NBA broadcasting group.

I think we must give then the chance and Im sure he will go on us in time.
I didn't like Wheels at all when he took Shonz place. Seemed really homie to me but I did get used to him and like him know.
You can pick your friends but we are stuck with our relatives.....

Could you imagine if this place had been around when Wheels took over? Or when Mike Rice came in after the 89-90 season?

 

[SIeepwalker]

I swear people find the dumbest shit to hate him on

 

[dead247]

He's here because of Paul and Colabro got is sidekick here.

Just another part of PA's plan to move the blazers to Seattle.

 

[Hoopguru]

Just another part of PA's plan to move the blazers to Seattle.

They made it pretty clear up there they didn't want an NBA team! And that happened many moons ago!
Mariners are next I bet......

 

[PDXFonz]

I swear people find the dumbest shit to hate him on

Should have posted dumbest in italics.

 

[dead247]

They made it pretty clear up there they didn't want an NBA team! And that happened many moons ago!
Mariners are next I bet......

Didn't mean it in any serious way bro.

Btw, only the state and city politicians at the time didn't want an NBA team (and David Stern is an ass, which didn't help). The general public did and still do want them back, no question.

 

[Hoopguru]

Didn't mean it in any serious way bro.

Btw, only the state and city politicians at the time didn't want an NBA team (and David Stern is an ass, which didn't help). The general public did and still do want them back, no question.

oh I know you didnt!
That city dodged a bullet when the Seachickens were packed up and ready to go. Plus I think the M's were gone till they had that one run, but its been downhill ever since.

 

[dead247]

oh I know you didnt!
That city dodged a bullet when the Seachickens were packed up and ready to go. Plus I think the M's were gone till they had that one run, but its been downhill ever since.

You too? Eh...

As for the M's, I guess I wouldn't be surprised if they actually did skip town sometime soon. Personally, I'm not really into baseball anymore so I wouldn't care that much.

 

[Lanny]

Colabro says it ALL the time, and it drives me nuts every stinking time. It makes no sense. A cup in golf is about the same diameter as a coffee cup, and like a coffee cup, it has sides and a bottom. The rim in basketball is way bigger than a coffee cup, and has no rigid sides and no bottom. Calling it a cup makes no sense at all. Makes me think I'm watching golf when Calabro says it, which makes me want to sit on my hands and whisper, not leap to my feet, clap and cheer my fool head off.

So, poor analogy that kills excitement, instead of encouraging it. Especially when there are already plenty of perfectly usable things to call it: basket, rim, hoop etc.

But I jump up and clap my hands and cheer my fool head off anyway. 50 years as a basketball fan is not to be dissuaded by a play-by-play announcer co-opting a term from another, less exciting sport.

BTW, this is my only real complaint about Colabro. Other than this, he's fine. Not perfect, but perfectly fine.

BNM

I consider Calabro barely tolerable. And now, I have to add 'cup' to my list of pet peeves about this guy. Thanks a lot for showing me yet another screwup by him.

 

[Lanny]

I predict we will win the rest of our games and steal the #2 seed from Golden State.

If nothing else, we've got the tie breaker.

 

[julius]

Colabro says it ALL the time, and it drives me nuts every stinking time. It makes no sense. A cup in golf is about the same diameter as a coffee cup, and like a coffee cup, it has sides and a bottom. The rim in basketball is way bigger than a coffee cup, and has no rigid sides and no bottom. Calling it a cup makes no sense at all. Makes me think I'm watching golf when Calabro says it, which makes me want to sit on my hands and whisper, not leap to my feet, clap and cheer my fool head off.

So, poor analogy that kills excitement, instead of encouraging it. Especially when there are already plenty of perfectly usable things to call it: basket, rim, hoop etc.

But I jump up and clap my hands and cheer my fool head off anyway. 50 years as a basketball fan is not to be dissuaded by a play-by-play announcer co-opting a term from another, less exciting sport.

BTW, this is my only real complaint about Colabro. Other than this, he's fine. Not perfect, but perfectly fine.

BNM

"climbed the golden ladder"

"lickety brindle, up the middle"

"On the pine"

"tip down"

"Iron"


Schonz used to say things that were strange too.

 

[tester551]

I consider Calabro barely tolerable. And now, I have to add 'cup' to my list of pet peeves about this guy. Thanks a lot for showing me yet another screwup by him.

Are you going to go get some professional help for that?

 

[julius]

Hey - the pedophiler is back. Are you going to go get some professional help for that?

Why does this sound vaguely familiar?

 

[jlprk]

Why does this sound vaguely familiar?

Sounds like someone being an asshole.

 

[Lanny]

"climbed the golden ladder"

"lickety brindle, up the middle"

"On the pine"

"tip down"

"Iron"


Schonz used to say things that were strange too.

Yeah, and I liked them all immediately. Schonz was and still is my idol. Little known fact, we traded the Portland Beavers announcer Bob Blackburn to Seattle for Bill Schonely (or so it seemed).

You left out Rip City, an expression that will forever be famous in this town and throughout the NBA. Has Callabro ever done that? No. Will he ever? Again, no.

 

[Lanny]

Hey - the pedophiler is back. Are you going to go get some professional help for that?

Are you in need of a nap today?

 

[santeesioux]

You too? Eh...

As for the M's, I guess I wouldn't be surprised if they actually did skip town sometime soon. Personally, I'm not really into baseball anymore so I wouldn't care that much.

If the M's left the northwest I could finally start liking the Giants like I should have when I was a kid!

 

[dviss1]

"climbed the golden ladder"

"lickety brindle, up the middle"

"On the pine"

"tip down"

"Iron"


Schonz used to say things that were strange too.

SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!!!! COMPARING CALABRO TO SCHONZ.....