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[slappy4428]

Am I the only one who doesn't mind either of them?

Pretty much, yeah.

And did anyone else find it funny to hear Michele Tafoya to expound on Koren Robinson's alcohol problems?

[DyePack]

The booth is an unquestioned failure at this point.

[indiansnetwork]

The booth is an unquestioned failure at this point.

I really think this booth has no cohesion right now and I highly doubt it will ever. I don't know why they just didn't take the sunday night crew and put it on Monday night. I though they balanced each other out pretty well.

[markvid]

Because, sometimes you apparently just gotta make changes for the sake of making changes.

[Oz]

I think Tirico is equally as bad as Kornheiser and Theismann. I just don't like him, can't really put a finger on it as to why.

I think it's his voice. He just doesn't have a play-by-play voice.

Maybe it's because he can't get his facts straight this season. Like after he mentioned that a punt rolled dead down at the 2-yard line, he said, "They're going to have 97 yards to go for a touchdown."

Um, yeah.

[lantaur]

I think Tirico is equally as bad as Kornheiser and Theismann. I just don't like him, can't really put a finger on it as to why.

I think it's his voice. He just doesn't have a play-by-play voice.

Maybe it's because he can't get his facts straight this season. Like after he mentioned that a punt rolled dead down at the 2-yard line, he said, "They're going to have 97 yards to go for a touchdown."

Um, yeah.

Or that he said it was a Ben Franklin statue (it's William Penn). They all suck. Tony panders, Theisman contradicts and Tirico tries to sound like he knows what he's talking about but usually f*cks up the facts.

[Blitz]

I'd rather hear someone prattle on about their kids than their fantasy team.

Same here. I hate fantasy sports!

[Bubbler]

And considering that Bubs wanted these devices used on Jue, I can't even imagine what he wants used on Carroll.

EDIT: And come to think of it, I'd prefer to have these devices used on me than have to listen to Joey Theesman.

Actually I prefer the comfy chair.

[poindexter]

I watched probably a quarter of  the game and for th efirst five minutes, I didn't think Kornheiser was there.  Nothing.  Was he sick?  Was there a fight?

Then the Eagles scored their first touchdown, and Tony said something to the effect of, I think the Eagles would rather have the ball in Donovan McNabb's hands than anyone else on the team".

Oh.  Okay.

I mute the in-game player interviews, and I've been lucky enough not to hear fantasy stuff, so I haven't been irritated while watching.  But Kornheiser has either been silent, or pedestrian.  And pedestrian might be reaching it.

[beefncheddar]

With the exception of his FFL team, which seems to have the largest roster of any FFL team ever, Kornheiser is doing exactly what they hired him NOT to do: Talk about the game. Make football points.

Tony, any of us could call a game as badly as you. They hired you for personality. Rip a guy or two. Quit trying to be Joe Announcerguy.

[JackS]

Bring back Dennis Miller

Worst idea EVER.

[beefncheddar]

For one week, I'd like to see them go without a PBP guy. Just let Kornheiser and Theismann (preferably Wilbon, though) riff during the entire game. The football fans will know what's going on and the folks watching in bars won't care. Just quit trying to recreate what you once had, because it isn't working.

Are there really THAT many people who get THAT much out of Tirico telling you it's 2nd and 10 when there's a fucking graphic on the screen already telling you that?

[Bob Cook]

Speaking of Favre-slobbering, I caught in passing Madden making a reference to how Rex Grossman does something-or-other like a Brett Favre. Of course, now I can't hear Madden without thinking of Frank Caliendo talking about lasanga being the "Brett Favre of pastas."

[Barsuk]

Speaking of Favre-slobbering, I caught in passing Madden making a reference to how Rex Grossman does something-or-other like a Brett Favre. Of course, now I can't hear Madden without thinking of Frank Caliendo talking about lasanga being the "Brett Favre of pastas."

I'm with you, Bob. Every time I hear Madden say "Brett Favre," I hear Caliendo saying, "Brett Favre is Brett Favre. He does Brett Favre things."

[Medial Collateral]

From Kornheiser's Post column of July 13, 1990 on those who play Fantasy/Rotisserie baseball:

The proper way to end a conversation with a Roto Guy is by saying:
"Get a life."

Well said. Then and now.

[Medial Collateral]

Two more Kornheiser insights from that July 13, 1990 column:

"My problem is with the concept of Roto Ball.
It's techno-nerd.
Wise up, Roto-Maniacs. Celebrate sports, don't calibrate them.
Sports shouldn't be faxed. They should be played. If you can't play, watch. Or listen on radio.
Roto Ball doesn't demand you do anything except arrange numbers. If that's what drove baseball, they wouldn't draft infielders, they'd draft accountants. Roto Guys have no need to go to the ballpark."

"Roto Guys are the antithesis of sports. They're the decimal point brigade, the Info-cult of the 21st century, the wax works of western civilization.
Roto Guys have no souls."

[Bob Cook]

Speaking of Favre-slobbering, I caught in passing Madden making a reference to how Rex Grossman does something-or-other like a Brett Favre. Of course, now I can't hear Madden without thinking of Frank Caliendo talking about lasanga being the "Brett Favre of pastas."

I'm with you, Bob. Every time I hear Madden say "Brett Favre," I hear Caliendo saying, "Brett Favre is Brett Favre. He does Brett Favre things."

I say we lead a movement to get Caliendo-as-Madden to be an announcer. You might be able to put him next to Al Michaels, and no one could tell the difference.

By the way, I heard Caliendo testing out his Bill Walton a while back on Mike and Mike. It's not ready yet, but it's not HOR-rible.

[lantaur]

From Kornheiser's Post column of July 13, 1990 on those who play Fantasy/Rotisserie baseball:

The proper way to end a conversation with a Roto Guy is by saying:
"Get a life."

Well said. Then and now.

Playing fantasy sports is fine. Telling everyone about your team, no so much. No one cares.

[broadway joe]

From Kornheiser's Post column of July 13, 1990 on those who play Fantasy/Rotisserie baseball:

The proper way to end a conversation with a Roto Guy is by saying:
"Get a life."

Well said. Then and now.

Kornheiser is a pretty bright guy and I can't help wondering if his token weekly fantasy football references aren't meant to do exactly what they're doing: illustrating how stupid people sound when talking about their teams.

I mean come on, the guy has been on four weeks, done it once a week and always has the best player on a team on "his" fantasy team? I have two teams and there have been four Monday night games and I've yet to have a single player in any of them.

I think it's all a ruse that's flying over everyone's heads. Or, he's turned into a mega-dork.

I was thinking the same thing, Junkie. There's no way TK has all these guys on his fantasy team. There's no way he even has a fantasy team. He doesn't even know the name of 80 percent of the players in the league. Can you imagine him sitting through a fantasy draft? No way. I think this is a subtle dig at fantasy geeks, a little shtick. Unfortunately, like everything else Kornheiser's done on MNF, it ain't funny.

As for putting him and Wilbon in the booth, I'm all for it. I don't understand why they put these three guys in the booth and hoped they would have chemistry, when they could have put two guys with obvious chemistry, Wilbon and Kornheiser, together. They could have been like Al McGruire and Billy Packer in the old days on college hoops. Stick Tirico or Nessler in there as a traffic cop, and you're set.

[beefncheddar]

But, in all honest, why the need for a traffic cop? I don't think you want anybody settling things down. Let the two of them go at it -- they're each intelligent enough, IMO, to do it without a third person who would look/feel incredibly out of place.

[Van Lingle Mungo]

I would rather hear about the consistency of one's bowel movements than their fantasy team.

Then you should've sat in my window seat on a flight I took last week.  By the time I could put on my headphones, I knew more about the lower intestine of the guy sitting next to me than I knew about mine.

[daveevansedge]

Xanadu,

Love the Smiths reference. My lone regret, musically, is never having seen them live.

LONDON (via Philadelphia)

Ball, fumbled through his fingers
Drive, thrown out the window
Do you think Reid made the right decision this time?

....
Left the football on the carpet
For the second time since this game started
Now Reid knows when Buckhalter blows
He really blows

[Chi City 81]

I would rather hear about the consistency of one's bowel movements than their fantasy team.

Then you should've sat in my window seat on a flight I took last week.  By the time I could put on my headphones, I knew more about the lower intestine of the guy sitting next to me than I knew about mine.

Outing alert -- Van Lingle Mungo is Peter King.

[Gutter]

I would rather hear about the consistency of one's bowel movements than their fantasy team.

Then you should've sat in my window seat on a flight I took last week.  By the time I could put on my headphones, I knew more about the lower intestine of the guy sitting next to me than I knew about mine.

Outing alert -- Van Lingle Mungo is Peter King.

I think the guy next to Van Lingle Mungo is Peter King ... all those lattes can't be good on the bowels.

[Van Lingle Mungo]

I would rather hear about the consistency of one's bowel movements than their fantasy team.

Then you should've sat in my window seat on a flight I took last week.  By the time I could put on my headphones, I knew more about the lower intestine of the guy sitting next to me than I knew about mine.

Outing alert -- Van Lingle Mungo is Peter King.

I think the guy next to Van Lingle Mungo is Peter King ... all those lattes can't be good on the bowels.

If it were, would finding out Peter King's bowels moved 12 times on September 21 warrant its own thread?