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ESPN's Worst Play by Play Announcer

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by SSreporters

Here's a nice little vote as I hit the hay, name the worst play by play announcer that ESPN has in any sport they cover (except poker and the spelling bee). When I mean that, I mean Mike Tirico, and not Joe Theismann, who's allegedly an analyst.

My entry: Gotta go with Dave O'Brien. He sucks at soccer, and from what I've heard, he's a bad announcer with the Red Sox.


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RomiezzoLegend
887 days ago
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I think he could be a little better, but I'm satisfied with what he does announcing..
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RomiezzoLegend
887 days ago
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I don't know how he announces soccer, but I don't think he'd be the best announcer for soccer. I should get other people's opinions about that.
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ThecrookedcapAll-Star
886 days ago
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He is always telling stupid stories during the game. That would be fine if he was the color guy, not the play-by-play announcer. He kind of treats it like a baseball game, which is totally the wrong way to do it.
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Cobras36Red-Shirting
887 days ago
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Tirico isn't all that good at football, but excels at covering golf. There's a coupla "second tier" college football guys that should be doing something else. All that being said, who ever schedules people for coverage duty and pust brent "idjit" musburger on any sport needs beaten senseless. The dude may have had is day at one point, but he's completely incompetent now.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
886 days ago
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He Tirico is pretty solid at football I think. I think he will do better this year since the booth is better. Agreed on the second tier football guys there are a lot of bad ones there. Berman is horrible, Ive never liked him.
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SeanmcseanVarsity
886 days ago
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Mike Greenberg doing Arena football is absolutely putrid. He sounds lost the entire broadcast. I caught him yesterday doing a game, and I think he should ditch the play by play and stick to yukking it up on the AM Radio show. This is aside from the fact that Arena football is a joke to begin with.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
886 days ago
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Mike Greenberg doing anything I cant stand him or his fat friend.
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Pfiore03Waterboy
886 days ago
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To be honest, I really couldn't stand the Monday Night Football announce team. Now here is a question, how does Tony Kornheiser get hired to be an announcer for MNF, the best football show of all time, with 0 qualifications except PTI? I mean can we write and become announcers too.

I hate Greenberg and Golic. There new ESPN Radio set is unprofessional and they hardly take fan callers.

"This is aside from the fact that Arena football is a joke to begin with."- Well, Sean, I guess that's why ESPN signed a TV contract with them. To make it not a joke but then again, I've not watched an Arena football game for more than 5 minutes because it's a joke.
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Cobras36Red-Shirting
886 days ago
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But they called 7 AFL games this year and did an above average job of it. Could they have been better? Sure. But they weren't the worse announcers ever to call and AFL game and are better than quite a few that have.
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TyduffyRed-Shirting
886 days ago
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There is nothing worse than Dave O'Brien doing Soccer. He's not a great baseball announcer to begin with, and then they threw him cold turkey into a sport he knew absolutely nothing about. He was busting out his high-school Spanish and saying names like "Ramos!!!" and trying to roll the R with a flourish. It was terrible. Just terrible. It would be like sending an English Soccer commentator to do a baseball game.
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
885 days ago
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You are thinking of somebody else, genius. Not O'Brien. Listen closer next time.
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Anonymous Fanatic #1
885 days ago
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HE'S A VERY POPULAR RED SOX ANNOUNCER. One of the major problems with soccer fans is their collective small-mindedness. Get over it! BTW, ESPN/ABC was nominted for an Emmy for that coverage. You are wrong on all counts.
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SSreportersLegend
884 days ago
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I find that stupid on the fact that virtually everything gets nominated for an Emmy. We want to listen to the ^%^%^ game!! Not who's mother ate a hammer. In several Boston online votes, it has been determined to be much less popular than his predecessor, Jerry Trupiano, mainly because he talks too much.
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Anonymous Fanatic #2
880 days ago
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SSreporters is a soccer snob, and a is simply lying. Absolutely not true. O'Brien is one of the few baseball announcers around who allows crowd noise - one of the reasons he is immensely popular with Red Sox Nation. These soccer idiots at so dishonest it is pathetic.
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SSreportersLegend
871 days ago
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Are you a relative of Dave? Because you are coming up with utterly stupid remarks.
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