Collmus to replace Durkin?

[Frost King]

Announcers are only needed on track, and for simulcasts that don't have TRACKUS. Otherwise who listens? I just follow the chicklets. The chicklets will let you follow the complete trip of your horse. Who needs an announcer with TRACKUS.

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by Frost King

Announcers are only needed on track, and for simulcasts that don't have TRACKUS. Otherwise who listens? I just follow the chicklets. The chicklets will let you follow the complete trip of your horse. Who needs an announcer with TRACKUS.

I work for Trakus, and love it.

But with any sport on TV, the cameras show you the action. It sure gets more exciting and enlivened with the play-by-play though. Vin Scully, the late Harry Kalas, the dulcet Pat Summerall, etc...some legendary voices made the pictures even better.

I haven't heard anyone in the US quite capture the race like the melody offered by Tom Durkin.

[tector]

Enough of Denman already. Whenever I hear his call of Blame (whose name somehow acquires two extra syllables at the wire) winning the BCC, I think "Jesus, this guy sounds like he had an impacted turd blocking his sphincter."

[TouchOfGrey]

Originally Posted by tector

Enough of Denman already. Whenever I hear his call of Blame (whose name somehow acquires two extra syllables at the wire) winning the BCC, I think "Jesus, this guy sounds like he had an impacted turd blocking his sphincter."

You mean his call of Zenyatta losing the BCC? He called her name more than Blame's the entire way.

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by TouchOfGrey

You mean his call of Zenyatta losing the BCC? He called her name more than Blame's the entire way.

This is dumb, national attention wise she was the star of the show coming into the race, not Blame, why wouldnt he call her out more?

People just are hell bent out of making something out of nothing.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

This is dumb, national attention wise she was the star of the show coming into the race, not Blame, why wouldnt he call her out more?

People just are hell bent out of making something out of nothing.

The stretch of that BC Classic will not be on his highlight reel. The fact that he more or less rooted her home and barely gave the winner any mention is probably the biggest faux pas an announcer can commit.

[TouchOfGrey]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The stretch of that BC Classic will not be on his highlight reel. The fact that he more or less rooted her home and barely gave the winner any mention is probably the biggest faux pas an announcer can commit.

Yes, this exactly.

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The stretch of that BC Classic will not be on his highlight reel. The fact that he more or less rooted her home and barely gave the winner any mention is probably the biggest faux pas an announcer can commit.

Yes, the millions and millions who were listening to the race on the Radio were upset.

Denman said his most upsetting race he had ever called was Zenyatta losing in that race. What you heard wasnt a faux pas, it was human emotion.

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The stretch of that BC Classic will not be on his highlight reel. The fact that he more or less rooted her home and barely gave the winner any mention is probably the biggest faux pas an announcer can commit.

99% of the people watching that broadcast were as well. I don't understand this at all, when I watch the last Olympics didnt you think Dan Hicks was rooting for Micheal Phelps in his call in some of those close races? I am sure on some swimming board someone was critical but the rest of the people would not have seen it strange at all.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

The stretch of that BC Classic will not be on his highlight reel. The fact that he more or less rooted her home and barely gave the winner any mention is probably the biggest faux pas an announcer can commit.

Respectfully (and with lots of it too! ) I think it's really easy, years after the fact and not having been the one in the announcers booth, to forget that he's just a person. You know? It's not like they get to do it over.

Could you be at the BC watching the Classic go off and call it simultaneously?

Again, what 10 Point said. She was (not the only one, but...) the star of the day.