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Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« on: January 04, 2012, 08:52:20 AM »
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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 06:00:58 PM »
is that why CB has been getting air time lately? Will he or BV fill the hambone seat from now on?


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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 06:14:02 PM »
Or does he know(using that loosely) that with all the changes going on in bowling, he has an inside scoop that the tour may not be the tour anymore after this years WSOB?


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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 07:19:48 PM »
No more tour?

 

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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 08:02:40 PM »
Rob Stone played soccer in college and is a soccer fanatic.   The move to Fox is to work on their soccer channel.  It would appear to be a move to a more of a "dream job" than it would be the PBA ceasing to exist.

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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 11:23:11 PM »
I think its great having Barnes on the show...etc. He is so so much knowlegable than someone like Rob when it comes to the sport. Now on the other hand, Rob may have had a better personallity so forth. I enjoyed both dont get me wrong, but sometimes its nice to have one of the best players on tour talking and giving details that someone like Rob couldnt.

 

 

Im sure Rob, just moved for the money... Thats what its all about. No worries about the tour folding anytime soon. Because hell they just have got the WSOP event going and next year I think it will be bigger than ever. I see that even becoming very popular and helping the tour out in years to come...
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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2012, 07:03:57 AM »
I still say that I would love to see a "guest" along side Randy each week.  One week, have Barnes.  Next week, have Voss.  Next week, have Parker.....etc.  Instead of the monotony of having the same two guys every week, change it up a little bit. 



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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2012, 07:05:14 AM »
Guys a broadcast team is made up of 2 parts:
 
- Color guy (Randy Peterson, Kirk Herbstreit, John Gruden, Joe Morgan, Tim McCarver, Johnny Miller)
 
- Play by Play (Rob Stone, Brent Musberger, Joe Buck, Vern Lundquist) 
 
The Color guy's job is to give insight into what is going on.  Generally someone who has been in the sport at the professional level, in most cases a coach of some kind.  The Play by Play guy is not necessarily fluent in the game, but knows how to describe the action well, and give sound to what is going on.   Putting Barnes in the booth with Peterson would be putting 2 color guys together.  ESPN will bring another experienced play by play person in to call the action.  Again the message boards will light up with people complaining about it not being someone who knows the game inside and out.


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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2012, 07:26:45 AM »
Rob Stone leaving ESPN's bowling coverage is a good thing as far as I am concerned. Almost anyone would be an improvement.
 
 


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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2012, 08:04:39 AM »
Stone is OK not great but OK.  The factor that pushed Stone into the foreground was the hambone thing.  I gotta think the PBA pushed him more towards that kind of broadcasting in that they want that more modern hoopla kind of thing for the shows for the casual viewer.
 
Think about casters like Joe Tesatore.  Ugh.  Go find Denny Schreiner and Mike Durbin.  
 
notclay wrote on 1/5/2012 8:26 AM:
Rob Stone leaving ESPN's bowling coverage is a good thing as far as I am concerned. Almost anyone would be an improvement.
 
 


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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2012, 01:11:55 PM »

While Rob Stone wasn't amazing, he was at least enthusiastic about it and was willing to learn.  You can tell the progress he has made and how much he has learned listening to him now compared to when he started.  The exact opposite of Dave Ryan before him.  Ryan's voice was so plain and boring and he had no intentions of learning a thing.  It was just another assignment for him that he could not care about.


It could be a lot worse than Rob Stone.  Hopefully the Hambone things goes with him. 



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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2012, 01:33:14 PM »

 



Russell wrote on 1/5/2012 8:05 AM:
Guys a broadcast team is made up of 2 parts:

 

- Color guy (Randy Peterson, Kirk Herbstreit, John Gruden, Joe Morgan, Tim McCarver, Johnny Miller)

 

- Play by Play (Rob Stone, Brent Musberger, Joe Buck, Vern Lundquist) 

 

The Color guy's job is to give insight into what is going on.  Generally someone who has been in the sport at the professional level, in most cases a coach of some kind.  The Play by Play guy is not necessarily fluent in the game, but knows how to describe the action well, and give sound to what is going on.   Putting Barnes in the booth with Peterson would be putting 2 color guys together.  ESPN will bring another experienced play by play person in to call the action.  Again the message boards will light up with people complaining about it not being someone who knows the game inside and out.


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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2012, 08:21:36 PM »
don't worry about Dave "60 Feet to Success" Ryan. he's at CBS.














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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2012, 08:44:45 AM »
Rob Stone was entertaining as hell.  Loved him.  I don't think I could ever imagine a bowler turning to Schenkel, Burton Jr., Durbin, or Ryan (or all the other dullards that wanted to make bowling the old folks in church experience it used to be on television) like Weber did last show and giving them a "hambone" shout out.  Hilarious and entertaining and what bowling needs more of.

 

Only person that I would like to see on the telecast regularly now with Pedersen is Marshall Holman.   As Russell pointed out, the chemistry might not work due to having two "color" men on.    



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Re: Rob Stone leaving ESPN to join Fox
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2012, 05:20:28 AM »
Can only wish Rob Stone the best of luck with Fox. I do watch MLS soccer and Rob Stone does some great work doing commentary and sideline reports for the games. 

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