Ever watch Dancing with the Stars? Well, they have these three judges. I don’t know their names and I’m not going to look them up, but you’ve seen them. On one side is the pretty lady judge, in the middle is the grumpy old judge and on the other side is the jumping up judge. I’m him today. Every time someone brings up the game I start flailing my arms around jumping up and down telling them how marvelous the Kings are. I have to stop that – but not too soon.
I’m putting a few cool pics up here that were on LAKings.com photo section. Just a few of my favorites to share.
We have a few things to talk about. One is the announcing last night. Brian Hayward and Brian Engblom should be embarrassed on how they announced the game. I hope they watch their tapes and realized their non-professionalism. If not, they are worse tools than you or I thought. Who in God’s green earth thought it was a good idea to have Hayward call the Kings game? Actually, you know what they were? They were atrocious! Check out what atrocious means.
This is from Webster’s Dictionary (I changed the examples):
Definition of ATROCIOUS
Or how about this gem? One of the announcers, and I can’t remember who so I won’t guess, says this:
“The Kings goalie had a great save!” (He was down on the ice at the time). The Kings goalie. Really? You can’t remember the Kings goalie’s name? Well let me help you.
His name is JONATHAN QUICK and he is up for A VEZINA!
Second, The Blues slit their own throats last night. They needed no help from us. The refs gave them so many chances to get back in the game and they were too disorganized to do anything about it. Crombeen challenged King to a fight to avenge Petrangelo and that was the right thing to do. Of course King practically wrung his neck but they got it out of their system. Wait, what? They didn’t? No, they did not. The Blues just put the hockey game on hold and instead pretty much threw the 2nd game away. I had nothing against the Blues but after last night, they really are getting to me. Playing the “victim” may work for a kid to get their parents to buy them a toy, but it doesn’t sit well in the NHL.
The Kings play at home Thursday and I’ll be there cheering and screaming for our guys. We win two out of the remaining 4 and we make the Western Conference Finals. I think we all can admit it’s really hard to keep our feet on the ground today!
Go Kings!
The Recipe Seeker
May 1, 2012
Great game, Great win. Except for the announcing. Here’s on more example… One of the idiots actually said that Kopitar’s goal was a “lucky one”. I hope we never have to hear the 2 of them ever again, otherwise I’ll have to mute the whole thing and just watch it.
tracykingslover
May 1, 2012
I heard a lot of people muted and listened to Nick and Daryl. Its always off by a few seconds so they dvr’d it and played with it until it matched. LOL! I’ll definately try that if we have to listen to those idiots again.
Bev
May 1, 2012
Enduring 3 hours of listening to Hayward and Engblom, in addition to the horrible ref calls and lack therof, was only made fun by the Kings and their outstanding patience and talent.
Engblom may have finally fixed that horrible hair-do he used to go with but, he sure didn’t improve what’s inside that head. Agree that he,Hayward and the other announcers should be ashamed and called before Shanny for breaking some kind of rule because announcing a game like that should be against the law. Hayward is as dumb as a fence anyway and to have him call a Kings game was just plain mental cruelty to cause so much suffering to so many fans everywhere.
Kings were the best by far and to the announcers, move to St Louis and enjoy. I’ve been there and it’s a hole.
tracykingslover
May 1, 2012
haha! Tell us how you really think Bev.
joking aside, I totally agree. They should be talked to and not call the game again unless they can do it unbiased. Hayward is a total Homer and Engblom doesn’t know anything about what is going on. He should have done his own homework instead of following Haywards lead.
I wish our petition for Bob and Jim would work!
Rosie
May 1, 2012
They are horrible ! I wish Miller and Fox could announce the game. Why they would pick these two is so horrible and annoying. I think my husband would do a better job of calling the game or maybe even me. They suck so badly it was horrible to have to hear them ! Before I had a little respect for the Blues but now they’re acting like crybaby sore losers, who did have a million and one chances thanks to the sucking refs t.
tracykingslover
May 1, 2012
Hey Rosie! You know I was thinking about this and you know what makes me upset? It’s the newer fans, or the ones who are casual fans. You and i and others may know the game really well and don’t even hear what the announcers are saying except peripherally. But we don’t learn the game by them. Others, new fans, etc, learn from what they are saying. To have them call a game so biased is cheating new fans on what the reality of the game is.
just my opinion but I had a lady tell me that today. She was upset because she usually listens to Foxy and Bob and learns about the game but last night she felt there was something wrong and could not put her finger on it. She just felt that there was hatred going and didin’t understand.
So NBC sports needs to rethink what they are doing.