They haven't seen the light yet, but they will.Oh. Tough crowd.
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They haven't seen the light yet, but they will.Oh. Tough crowd.
Totally agree with everything you say.Nope, he was as horrible as ever, with the same lame jokes, puns and general cluelessness as always. When there was the 3 together, it was better as there was less Kirby. The only thing that stopped me from putting it on mute. Hopefully this means it will be someone else for Paris-Roubaix as having my two favourite races destroyed by his gibberish nonsense would be very annoying.
Cosmo Catalano, who is like the OG Lanterne Rouge except without valuable insights, keeps doing the same. "Phillipsa" really irks me, as does "Ess Day Works". Please, you don't know the language and you aren't speaking it, just stick to the language you and your audience do speak. Same reason I don't ask for a "KWAASAAWn" at the bakery down the street.Rob Hatch is bugging the crapola out of me right now. I don't understand the pronunciation of any proper name with an "n" at the end. Most frequently he pronounces PhillipseN as "Phillip-suh". Stuyven is "Stuh-vuh", and the last couple of weeks there's been a whole lotta "Vlaander-uh" instead of Vlaanderen.
I don't speak Flemish/Dutch, but half my family does and I've periodically been around it my whole life. Never have I heard this pronunciation. I don't seem to hear it from the Belgian commentators on TV either. Is this some Dutch pronunciation? Some dialect of Flemish I'm not familiar with? Rob Hatch just being wrong? Me hearing things?
I absolutely want to give him credit for attempting to pronounce things correctly. Certainly an upgrade to the horrific noises coming from Bob Roll or Chris Horner. Hatch seems to speak many languages? I could be totally off. But he's got Dan Lloyd doing it, and it feels like an infection has started.
Native speakers, can you shed some light? Thank you! Not sure why this bugs me so much but I'm starting to find it really distracting.
Hey, hey! Ease up on my man CK, will ya?Totally agree with everything you say.
Sould only be allowed on minor stage races like Tour of Antarctica, and always paired with Cox, might waffle themselves to exhaustion.
Totally agree with everything you say.
Should only be allowed on minor stage races like Tour of Antarctica, and always paired with Cox, might waffle themselves to exhaustion.
Not much chance of that considering the usual response to hearing Kirby on commentary is reaching straight for the mute button. I didn't bother watching Cataluyna recently, primarily because he was the commentator.They haven't seen the light yet, but they will.
Why didn't you just reach for the mute button? Was it unavailable?Not much chance of that considering the usual response to hearing Kirby on commentary is reaching straight for the mute button. I didn't bother watching Cataluyna recently, primarily because he was the commentator.
I think you make good points here, minus the clown part. Notice how CK went from calling de Ronde Van Vlaanderen to the Spanish stage race in less than 24 hours. He had very little time to get acquainted with different riders, different terrain and different strategies after a good night's sleep.Kirby and Brian Smith are clowns. they get simple facts about the route and the race completely wrong and then continue to run with them until they realize they've been wrong for the last 45 minutes and then "ah, welp". they're just plain lazy and terrible at their jobs. Brian Smith cant be bothered to correctly identify any rider than isn't a superstar or British and Kirby just goes on and on about riders completely irrelevant to the race (Ethan Hayter, Fred Wright, "Manny Bookman") in place of talking about things that are actually happening in the race. yet both of them have this air of superiority as if they're untouchable experts. Senile Phil Liggett runs laps around these two losers. at least he has some sense of humility when he makes a mistake and he was an actual good commentator at one point in his career, unlike the other two clowns.
Not much chance of that considering the usual response to hearing Kirby on commentary is reaching straight for the mute button. I didn't bother watching Cataluyna recently, primarily because he was the commentator.
Always find it a bit tragi-comic when native English speakers cry about commentators using 'strange' pronunciation. Remember there being a lot of furious indignation in England when we were asked not to say 'Josey' for Mourinho's first name.
They did!god i cant imagine having to suffer through that race and also having to hear from adam blythe. did they also have jens on the motorbike to take up half the screen and tell you about something that happened 4 minutes ago? dear god. my condolences.
by request Sean Kelly only does PN and the Grand tours.What happened to Sean Kelly?
I had GCN+ and he was on a LOT of races
I now use flobikes in Canada and they seem to have Eurosport commentators for about half the races, but I never hear Kelly.
Lots of Brian Smith, Jose Been, Rob Hatch, Carlton Kirby....
by request Sean Kelly only does PN and the Grand tours.
If only there was a handy list to look up which races he did. Thanks argylflyerHe did Paris-Roubaix. And I think MSR? Really can't remember if he was on Flanders co-coms.
If only there was a handy list to look up which races he did. Thanks argylflyer