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Couple questions about the broadcast
« on: January 20, 2008, 04:28:47 AM »
I am taking the year off bowling all together and am watching the PBA telecast for the first time this year.  Questions are as follows...

What is a hambone, is it suppose to be funny or is it a serious bowling term now?

Why does every commercial break start and end with a dennys/motel 6 commercial?  And why the same two commercials?

Why does the one tool announcer keep yelling things like "drop and give me ten" or  "gravy train with biscuit wheels" when it does nothing in the way of entertainment.  Why is he there?

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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 12:33:29 PM »
Hambone is a made up word compliments of Rob Stone. Basically it just means a 4-Bagger.

Denny's and Motel 6 are the big time title sponsors/tour sponsors for the PBA, and im not sure why its always the same commercial.

That announcer would be Randy Pederson, and he is just having a little fun. He is known for his quirky comments. He is there because he is/was a successful PBA bowler with 13 titles, and he brings a knowledge base that neither Rob Stone or Dave Ryan (who was there before Stone) had. I enjoy randy.
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 12:59:03 PM »
Rob Stone is about 20,000 percent better than Dave Ryan was, because he's enthusiastic. All those "hambone" signs in the crowd show that people are listening. He's generating interest.

No, he didn't know much about the game at first. But he has thrown himself into his work and has learned more in six months than Ryan learned in several years.

Think about this, as well: How many play-by-play guys out there are serious bowlers? And if you're going to answer with the name Mike Durbin, please do not do so unless you're going to give me a complimentary snooze alarm.

Stone has taken a lot of heat this year for "disrespecting the game," which is a euphemism for "he isn't stuffy like virtually everyone they put in the PBP chair since Schenkel." We've had some of the most exciting telecasts in years this year and a large part of that is due to the change in the booth.

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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 01:21:34 PM »
Give me the Denny Schriener/Mike Durbin days of ESPN broadcasts.  At least Denny had a functional knowledge of the game and made announcing both meaningful and educational.  He asked questions whcih gave Mike Durbin the opportunity to dispense a decent amount of bowling knowledge.  

Durbin was just the professional bowling analyst.  It wasn't his job to be exciting.

Randy is OK, but ESPN's color commentators just don't have it these days.
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 01:41:36 PM »
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Give me the Denny Schriener/Mike Durbin days of ESPN broadcasts.  At least Denny had a functional knowledge of the game and made announcing both meaningful and educational.  He asked questions whcih gave Mike Durbin the opportunity to dispense a decent amount of bowling knowledge.  

Durbin was just the professional bowling analyst.  It wasn't his job to be exciting.

Randy is OK, but ESPN's color commentators just don't have it these days.
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Durbin was fine as a color man. But those broadcasts where he was the PBP guy were painful to listen to. Every shot had the same "OOOOOOOOOOHHHH!" reaction when the ball hit the pins. And when Durbin was sitting in the PBP slot, he wanted to be the guy that told you everything, rather than punting it to his color man.

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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 01:47:07 PM »
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I am taking the year off bowling all together and am watching the PBA telecast for the first time this year.


  Sorry to hear that. Hope everything is well

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 Questions are as follows...

What is a hambone, is it suppose to be funny or is it a serious bowling term now?


  Just supposed to be comedy relief, I think.  Mr. Stone interjected that one day when it was explained to him exactly what a "turkey" was.  He said he needed to create a term denoting 4 strikes in a row and deemed it a "hambone".
  Somehow the term just keeps seeming to try and stick.....

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Why does every commercial break start and end with a dennys/motel 6 commercial?  And why the same two commercials?


  These are the two "big" sponsors this year.  Even that, they are probably pretty cheap and only have a couple of commercials to run in the first place

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Why does the one tool announcer keep yelling things like "drop and give me ten" or  "gravy train with biscuit wheels" when it does nothing in the way of entertainment.  Why is he there?


  One can only assume ( and you know what they say about THAT ) that it is his attempt to interject some humor.  While some of his utterings seem to dawdle on, some of them can be uniquely humorous.  My father used to use the "gravy train with biscuit wheels" thing, so I sort of though that was funny, but I grew up thinking it was funny because my dad used it.

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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 01:56:07 PM »
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 Questions are as follows...

What is a hambone, is it suppose to be funny or is it a serious bowling term now?


  Just supposed to be comedy relief, I think.  Mr. Stone interjected that one day when it was explained to him exactly what a "turkey" was.  He said he needed to create a term denoting 4 strikes in a row and deemed it a "hambone".
  Somehow the term just keeps seeming to try and stick.....


Now if we could just get him to stop SCREAMING, "Drop and give me ten" which has zero relationship to anything except Army nightmares ....
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2008, 02:28:05 PM »
Randy needs to cut out the "sweet roll" comment every week.  It is just as bad as Ryan's "60 feet to success".
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2008, 09:17:02 AM »
I like the new guy over Ryan.
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2008, 10:50:43 AM »
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Now if we could just get him to stop SCREAMING, "Drop and give me ten" which has zero relationship to anything except Army nightmares ....
 


I kinda like that, it's just another expression of enthusiam which Stone brings to the announce post that Ryan failed to.  I actually found myself shouting it while on a string of strikes just the other night--it just came out.
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2008, 04:59:03 PM »
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Now if we could just get him to stop SCREAMING, "Drop and give me ten" which has zero relationship to anything except Army nightmares ....
 


I kinda like that, it's just another expression of enthusiam which Stone brings to the announce post that Ryan failed to.  I actually found myself shouting it while on a string of strikes just the other night--it just came out.
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Re: Couple questions about the broadcast
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2008, 06:45:41 PM »
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Now if we could just get him to stop SCREAMING, "Drop and give me ten" which has zero relationship to anything except Army nightmares ....
 

I kinda like that, it's just another expression of enthusiam which Stone brings to the announce post that Ryan failed to.  I actually found myself shouting it while on a string of strikes just the other night--it just came out.
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Charlest, I'm w/you 100% on that, LOL.  I remember those days too well also & it's been almost 28 yrs. since I heard em.  Other than that, I have no complaints of the 2 announcers.  I hope Randy can make the TV finals in the TOC coming up.  That'd be cool.  Do you think he'll be throwing Storm?
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