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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: Chris L on May 05, 2008, 03:34:45 PM
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Tom, where would you rank EJ, Kenny and Charles' antics on the Funny Scale? 10 being Jeff Van Gundy and 1 being Reggie Miller (granted, it's a highly imperfect scale...)
The incessant funny photos and such are not my bag, but as far as sports talk banter goes they occasionally crack me up. Enough so that I spent an alarming chunk of time watching old YouTube clips yesterday.
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Funny Scale? 10 being Jeff Van Gundy and 1 being Reggie Miller (granted, it's a highly imperfect scale...)
This is a flawed scale - reminds of the the sarcasm scale from 7SD last week. Gundy, funny? If you mean for his hilarious looks, then yes. I miss him as the Knicks coach -- all covered in flopsweat, combover waving around, holding on to the leg of a fighting player. The saddest/funniest (uh-oh, not ha-ha) story ever was when they returned from an away game in the finals (after losing) and the plane landed low to the parking lot and flipped his car over. And only his. Poor guy.
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OK, you've convinced me that scale was bogus. 10 is now Bill Walton and 1 is Jon Barry.
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My brother can still make me giggle by calling and just saying "THROW IT DOWN, BIG MAN, THROW IT DOWN" in a Bill Walton voice. That was 85% of his commentary when he did play by play.
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Sorry I stopped paying attention to the NBA last year after David Stern ruined what had been the best playoff series in years (Suns-Spurs) with those insane suspensions of 2 Suns for stepping a few inches on the floor during a stare-down. I'm convinced the Spurs owner is married to his daugher or something. Based on my dusty memory, I'd rank Van Gundy a 6 and Barkley an 8. Barkley gets a least one extra point because there were time I was wondering if he was drunk or had been awake for 3 days playing poker.
David Stern is the commissioner of my personal Hate Pit.
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My brother can still make me giggle by calling and just saying "THROW IT DOWN, BIG MAN, THROW IT DOWN" in a Bill Walton voice. That was 85% of his commentary when he did play by play.
He does have a more thoughtful side...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZS6sRVWsk[/youtube]
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WOW. That's fantastic. I want to write down the end part of that clip but won't ruin it for the others.
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Kenny Smith's finest moment.
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Barkley gets Burgandy'd
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Charles, Kenny and Ernie are the best.
THE BEST!
10 of 10!
They make me laugh without qualification, and when they break it down, it's good stuff. None of the sad pandering that goes on with the commentators - apparently Doc Rivers is a top notch coach, according to the dimwits calling Game Seven today. And I say that as someone who used to cheer for Jeff Van Gundy wholeheartedly as the Knicks coach.
Tom.
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As a Knick fan, I too loved Van Gundy and was sad to see him go at a time when a lot of knick-fans were booing him. We thought we could do better and we couldn't. Don Chaney, Herb Williams, Lenny Wilkens, Larry Brown, & Isiah. JVG might have seemed like a drip, but the guy preached tough D and was a basketball gym rat. Loyal to Pat at the very end, too. Of course, I'm loyal to the core, so I'm going to be cheering for D'Antoni. Tough job ahead.
The Inside The NBA team has been great for years. Kenny is a better TV guy than he was a player and he won a ring! Ernie The Elevator Johnson is a perfect sideman/straightman to Charles and Kenny. And Charles? The man is reinventing himself. It's a great example to many networks who feel the need to wheel out four, five and sometimes six people to break down and hype games. A good tv crew needs time to get to know each other (kind of like a championship NBA team). And TNT is good about incorporating the Rando Guest Athlete into the crew--they made Chris Webber look good doing TV.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfhO23NIRP0[/youtube]
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OK, you've convinced me that scale was bogus. 10 is now Bill Walton and 1 is Jon Barry.
A much better scale here. I'm not a Van Gundy fan but Bill Walton is classic. He's been MIA doing commentary during the Playoffs though, instead leaving us with Stephen A and Stuart Scott.
Barkley, EJ, and Kenny are also 10+
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Anyone see that horrific father's day video of Luke and Bill Walton together. It featured the priceless quote "in my life everyday is father's day". There is not enough cheese left in the world to duplicate such a piece. I mean I love the idea, but they should have hired a re-enactment team or something.
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I saw it during the Finals and it was certainly cringe inducing at times. It looked like Luke was embarrassed and did not want to be doing it but Bill always talks in cliches. I love him though and can't complain. He's one of the funniest and happiest TV personalities out there.
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
invoking strong emotion. it's good to be loved and hated i think.
curious, knicks fan?
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
invoking strong emotion. it's good to be loved and hated i think.
curious, knicks fan?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463f9vIeO6E[/youtube]
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
invoking strong emotion. it's good to be loved and hated i think.
curious, knicks fan?
Nope, Bulls. So I was never emotional destroyed by him like Knicks fans. But I still hate him. My top 5 most hated would be Starks, Laimbeer, Ewing, Charles Smith, and Karl Malone.
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
invoking strong emotion. it's good to be loved and hated i think.
curious, knicks fan?
Nope, Bulls. So I was never emotional destroyed by him like Knicks fans. But I still hate him. My top 5 most hated would be Starks, Laimbeer, Ewing, Charles Smith, and Karl Malone.
i like ya still. starks and ewing are bad.
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Remind me, how many titles didn't Reggie win? :)
Deep down I have to love him - used to go see him play at UCLA when I was a wee lad.
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Remind me, how many titles didn't Reggie win? :)
Deep down I have to love him - used to go see him play at UCLA when I was a wee lad.
he was darn close against the lakers. he could have joined the celtics team last year, but that would almost diminish the work he did in indiana.
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
invoking strong emotion. it's good to be loved and hated i think.
curious, knicks fan?
Nope, Bulls. So I was never emotional destroyed by him like Knicks fans. But I still hate him. My top 5 most hated would be Starks, Laimbeer, Ewing, Charles Smith, and Karl Malone.
Karl Malone was a good player but apparently a horrible guy. He impregnated a 13 year old girl when he was a sophomore in college and has ignored his son. Hos son is Demetrius Bell, now an offensive lineman for the Buffalo Bills.
Here are some gems from Malone's wikipedia page about it:
"Malone challenged the court's ruling with regard to Bell, claiming that the judgment holding him responsible for $125 per week in child support, plus past and future medical expenses, was excessive."
"Bell's first and only meeting with Malone came shortly after Bell graduated from high school. According to Bell, Malone told him at that time that it was "too late" for them to have a father-son relationship and told him to never ask him for money."
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while reggie isn't funny, he's pretty good at calling the games on tnt or whatever. not to mention being one of the best SG ever in the NBA, the best 3 point shooter ever, and super clutch. i'll always have love for reggie.
And he will remain one of my top 5 most hated NBA players ever.
I understand the hate for Reggie, but he's part of one of my favorite Kramer moments ever on Seinfeld.
KRAMER: [comes in, subdued] Hey. [grabs a water from refrigerator]
JERRY: Hey, I thought you went to the game.
KRAMER: No. I was kicked out for fightin' with one of the players. [leaving]
JERRY: Wait. Way--way--way--way--way--way--wait! Who?!
KRAMER: [stops] W--Reggie Miller.
ELAINE: Cheryl Miller's brother?
KRAMER: Yeah. [leaving]
JERRY: Hey--hey--hey--wait, wait, wait, wait! What happened!
KRAMER: [stops again] Well, first of all, for some reason, they started the game an hour Late. And uh, I was sittin' next to Spike Lee an' he an' Reggie were jawin' at each other, so I guess I got involved. [leaving]
ELAINE: [same time as JERRY] --Wait, whoa--whoa--whoa--whoa!--
JERRY: Well--wait--wait--wait--wait! What do you mean "involved"?!
KRAMER: [stops again] Well I ran out onto the court an' threw a hot-dog at Reggie Miller. "Involved." And they threw me, and Reggie, and Spike out of the game.
ELAINE: So that's it?
KRAMER: Well I, well I, felt, pretty bad about everything an' uh, then the three of us, we went to a strip club. [leaves]
JERRY: Can you believe that?
ELAINE: I didn't know Cheryl Miller's brother played basketball.
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Karl Malone was a good player but apparently a horrible guy.
Ah, that 18-wheeler-driving, Utah-living ass. I had a moment of conflict when both he and Payton signed with the Lakers (how can you root for a guy you've spent a solid 12 years hating?), and it was great to watch them lose in the Finals. It was as if order had been restored to the universe. So glad he retired without a championship, that big schlub.
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Plus he deserves to fail for his career-long mangling of the English language. A guy at my old work said he swore he'd heard Malone say he was going to "Momma the ball," as though the rest of us could understand what that meant.
So, of course, now I can't hear Karl Malone's name without thinking "Momma the ball."
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What, I'm not saying that!
You're the one thinking it!
Shame on YOU!
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Plus he deserves to fail for his career-long mangling of the English language. A guy at my old work said he swore he'd heard Malone say he was going to "Momma the ball," as though the rest of us could understand what that meant.
So, of course, now I can't hear Karl Malone's name without thinking "Momma the ball."
I think they had a recurring Karl Malone character (played by Jimmy Kimmel) on the old Man Show with the same unintelligible quotes.
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Karl Malone was a good player but apparently a horrible guy.
Ah, that 18-wheeler-driving, Utah-living ass. I had a moment of conflict when both he and Payton signed with the Lakers (how can you root for a guy you've spent a solid 12 years hating?), and it was great to watch them lose in the Finals. It was as if order had been restored to the universe. So glad he retired without a championship, that big schlub.
Add to the list of reasons to hate 'the Mailman' that his Toyota dealership in New Mexico recieved so many complaints that the Attorney General went after it in 1999.
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Barkley, from the Times; pure magic.
NO KNICKS NATIONALLY Not a single Knicks games will be on TNT, ESPN or ABC this season, and that is fine with Charles Barkley.
“They haven’t earned the right to be on TV,” said TNT’s Barkley, during a news media gathering at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan.
Not even locally, on the MSG Network? “You’re walking a fine line,” he said.
There are 30 N.B.A. teams, and only 19 will be visible on TNT. The N.B.A. does not mandate the number of teams a network must show. That pleases Barkley, too.
“Why would I want to watch Minnesota play?” he said
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There are 30 N.B.A. teams, and only 19 will be visible on TNT. The N.B.A. does not mandate the number of teams a network must show. That pleases Barkley, too.
“Why would I want to watch Minnesota play?” he said
I agree with the sentiment but I have to admit I want to see Kevin Love play. Twice a year against the Bulls should be plenty.