Atlanta Braves Thread XI (Gary Sheffield edition)

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Golf is bowling or darts with better scenery. I understand why playing it is fun; I don't understand why watching other people play it is fun.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
No idea how he managed to secure the job as lead announcer for both the FF and The Masters.
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It started with golf for him and he just became the CBS lead guy from there. I know he's cheesy as hell but he was a pretty good college golfer at U of Houston (I think) with Couples so he knows his ish when it comes to golf.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Golf is bowling or darts with better scenery. I understand why playing it is fun; I don't understand why watching other people play it is fun.
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Can't say I can give you a reason why it's different from those sports but Sunday at the Masters and the US Open are two of my favorite days throughout the sporting year.
 
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I should say that I like watching the last half hour or so on the Sunday of any major golf tournament, just because the drama of human sport is always interesting regardless of what the vehicle is. I don't get the appeal of watching the however many dozens of hours of coverage there are before that.

Unless you play seriously yourself, of course -- I myself have watched televised chess before, and there's not much that sucks more than that.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I don't get the appeal of watching the however many dozens of hours of coverage there are before that.
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That's one thing that The Masters does right. Like how we were discussing the NFL and overexposure earlier in the week, Augusta National isn't going to allow that to happen. They stick to the first rule of showbusiness and always leave you wanting more. Even on Thursday and Friday I don't think they come on the air until 3:00. It's not like the British and US Open that are literally on from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM every day.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
That's one thing that The Masters does right. Like how we were discussing the NFL and overexposure earlier in the week, Augusta National isn't going to allow that to happen. They stick to the first rule of showbusiness and always leave you wanting more. Even on Thursday and Friday I don't think they come on the air until 3:00. It's not like the British and US Open that are literally on from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM every day.
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Due to work schedules I barely get to see much of Thursday and Friday but you couldn't give me enough Masters coverage on the weekend. I'd watch it from sunup to sundown.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I should say that I like watching the last half hour or so on the Sunday of any major golf tournament, just because the drama of human sport is always interesting regardless of what the vehicle is. I don't get the appeal of watching the however many dozens of hours of coverage there are before that.

Unless you play seriously yourself, of course -- I myself have watched televised chess before, and there's not much that sucks more than that.
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Was this on ESPN the Ocho?
 
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I did not watch my comedy. Guess I'm going to watch the last of these irrelevant tall-men-bouncing-a-ball games and then either watch Enter the Dragon or Idiocracy, neither of which I've seen before. Still so much rage. Wish I were a cyborg like GA.
 
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NochNoch said:
Due to work schedules I barely get to see much of Thursday and Friday but you couldn't give me enough Masters coverage on the weekend. I'd watch it from sunup to sundown.
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In a practical sense, all day coverage makes more sense the first two days because with the big names being all over the place with start times, the best you can hope for is to see most of a guy's round one day. Once the field is set by scores on Saturday, almost nobody that has a prayer of being a factor is going out before noon.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I did not watch my comedy. Guess I'm going to watch the last of these irrelevant tall-men-bouncing-a-ball games and then either watch Enter the Dragon or Idiocracy, neither of which I've seen before. Still so much rage. Wish I were a cyborg like GA.
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So far tonight UT lost a heartbreaker and the Pacers got humiliated by the Wizards. If UK somehow wins this game it's going to be a triple kick in the nuts for me today.
 
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slh1089 said:
Was this on ESPN the Ocho?
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It might even have been on full ESPN, because I think that's all there was at the time. They televised some of the world chess championship once. This was 20 years ago. I remember being out at happy hour in a bar in Washington DC in 1994 and tipping the bartender five bucks to get her to put it on the TV. Impossible to follow it at happy hour, of course, but it just about made my head explode that it was on TV at all. And obviously it hasn't been since.
 
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I would be happy to see Michigan State win the whole thing. One, one of our best friends is a Sparty alum and it would make her happy. Two, Tom Izzo might be the best college BB coach in the country and is not (to my knowledge) reprehensible and it would be nice to see him win a second championship.

This of course is assuming that Dayton can't pull off the unthinkable.
 
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