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MilWarrior

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Re: Wayne Larivee
« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2009, 03:28:11 AM »
Neutral bias? That would probably be the definition of an oxymoron.

I would agree with the general consenus here that Laravee is good with radio FB but very poor with basketball on TV. And baseball, too. He did some fill-ins for the Cubs in the 90s and was about as bad at that as he was with buckets.

Good job at pointing out the oxymoron. Very proud of you. You're right, he's a good football announcer, but not one for the home team. Would you like Wayne Larivee to be a Bears announcer? The whole point here is that the Packers should have a homer as an announcer, not a Big Ten announcer with a side job. Once again thank you for pointing out the oxymoron and ignoring the legitimate points that I presented. 

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Re: Wayne Larivee
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2009, 07:42:50 AM »
I know it's been said but Jim Irwin and Max McGee were far and away better. Why? Because they were homers. The problem with Larivee is that he's so used to calling neutral games during the Big Ten football season that some of that neutral bias starts to spread into his Packers broadcasts. I guarantee you will never hear another announcer get as excited as Wayne does when the opposing team does something good. I know he doesn't mean it, but I hate it! This should probably go into the SB.


Well, I guess you could call Jim and Max homers, but they weren't ridiculous, over-the-top homers.  I just think they were funny, especially for someone who came of age during the lost years in the late 70s and 80s.

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Re: Wayne Larivee
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2009, 01:31:25 PM »
I still can't stand Wayne doing play-by-play for the Packers after all those years of having to listen to him call the Bears games down here in Illinois.

Got to hand it to him though, he seems to be one of the hardest working radio sportscasters out there.  Just wish he'd call another team rather than the Pack.

When he did the Bears game he was bogged down by two of the worst color commentators in the history of modern sports broadcasting.
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Re: Wayne Larivee
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2009, 07:23:41 PM »
Good job at pointing out the oxymoron. Very proud of you. You're right, he's a good football announcer, but not one for the home team. Would you like Wayne Larivee to be a Bears announcer? The whole point here is that the Packers should have a homer as an announcer, not a Big Ten announcer with a side job. Once again thank you for pointing out the oxymoron and ignoring the legitimate points that I presented. 

To be honest, I could care less about Larivee and FB. Not a Packer or Bear fan, and haven't been into the NFL a whole lot since the mid-90s. The whole point of my post was to maybe get people to recall that he was awful on baseball, too, IMHO.
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