I am pretty harsh on announcers in general although they have a very difficult job to be certain. Dave Ryan is not very good at all. His voice is ok, but as was stated some of his sayings are just dumb. When the real dramatic moments occur Ryan just doesn't bring it home for me. I give him a 4 out of 10.
Randy Pedersen is an enigma to me. To those who are new to the telecasts, Pedersen is pretty good at keeping it simple while still yet explaining what is happening and why. My problem with him is personally. I think the guy is a jerk and its hard to respect someone you don't like. I give Randy a 7 out of 10.
There is no duo better than Schenkel and Burton. They played off eachother so well. Schenkel delivered the dead pan straightforward news while Bo filled in with the whats happening and why and was excellent at building the drama. Even though these guys are pro's, I will never forget Burton's description of throwing a 300 on tv.
"It's down to the last ball, you just have to stop thinking and go on instinct, and hope that today is your day."
Of the backups, I like Brian Voss commentary. Not many know the game better and he really isn't very boring. I think Voss could do very very well as the color guy but to be honest I think him doing play by play would be fine. The only problem would be stepping on Randy's toes in terms of explaining technical things. Those two together and you'd have your serious yet highly qualified play by play and Randy could still go off and be goofy which is normally entertaining. Those tandems usually play very well together in terms of commentary.
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D <~~~~ Used to be terrible wiffing 10 pins. Now through much practice, can wiff any single pin spare at any time.
Darrell Guzman
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