Snapper FTW

and have to watch other commentators all the time. Last night was bad, but NO had to be the worst. Their analyst was dogging the Blazers bad… well until they came back. Then he had only bad things to say about his own team.

Rice is just funny. People who don’t like Rice probably don’t like people in general. I ran into Rice after a game once, said hello, and he started talking to me rather than just nodding and walking off. That guy’s cool. He sounds drunk often enough, but I LOVE that.

And who cares about being a homer. Isn’t that the point? Being a fan of basketball is cool, too, but only when your team is terrible. Otherwise, you just come off as a snob or someone that doesn’t understand the function of sports in our society (a distraction from things that actually MATTER).

Snapper was hard to listen to.

it only reminds me how depressing brian wheeler is on the radio. he is so high on the blazers and soooo looowww on everything that goes against them. he makes everything sound so awful, hardly calls a decent play by play on anything the other team does, if it is something successful he sort of just trails off in a whimper. rice and barrett, like you said, may irk some people here, but compared to ANYONE else in the league, they are amazing. i like the lakers radio announcer because he is the opposite of what wheels is, he loves everything going on. he is heroicly pro-laker but he’s a good broadcaster.

and like you said, the sacramento tv announcers, theyre great. i was amazed after watching the blowout on leaguepass which was the sactown feed, they were losing terribly and managing to say nothing but nice things about the blazers. the old cleveland announcers, the sacramento announcers, and our mike and mike are the cream of the crop

…All I have to compare him to is Snapper Jones, but Rice is starting to wear on my nerves. I agree with everything you guys said about him not being too biased, and giving opponents respect, etc. I appreciate that. But all I see him do is read off stat sheets and say stuff like this:
 
“He’ll do that!
He can do that!
He’ll do that! That young man from <glances at stat sheet, sees player played with Florida State 2 years ago, and averaged 4.8 points in the paint> Florida State, he’ll run right past you and get the bucket! Just like he did at Florida State where he averaged 4 points in the paint.”

I wouldn’t miss that kind of commentary if it went away, although some of his (unpaid) interns might lose their jobs.

Watch one game with the Cleveland announcers or Boston announcers and you’ll realize how luck we are to have Mike Rice.

but he and everyone else on the broadcast team is better than Pete Pranica.

I couldn’t stand Snapper, he was arrogant, or atleast came off that way to me. For a color commentator I like those like Rice or Walton. Someone to make me laugh but who also knows the game and can break it down quickly. I don’t need really indepth stuff, just enough to show how a play happened, or didn’t happen. Mike and Mike do this great.

i can’t help but lol about this guy,m.rice is 1 of the greatest human beigns i’ved ever came across.i’m seriously holding back my tears right now.it all statred back at the end of the 05 season.a sunday night game vs the jazz,before the pregame started rice*barrett
another great human beign i might add,walked right pass me.i congradulated barrett on the birth of his 1.st child jack,then i looked at rice and seriously apologized to him.why do you ask because my heart went out ot them both.for covering a bunch of sorry a*** sob’s on a nightly basis.they both shook my hand and said thank-you for your patience&loyalty to the franchise.and i said i’ll die wearing the scarlet*black*white.fast foward to last season at the izod center,i said the m&m boys my 2 favorite guys in the world.what a difference 3 years make.they stopped what they were doing and hugged*shook my hand,and m.rice said i told you it would turn around thanks your patience and loyalty.the morale of this story is that rice*barrett remember who i was and everytime we hook up it’s like being with my 2 deceased uncles all over again

for that last post but mike rice and mike barrett"i love you"guys from the bottom of my heart.bless both of you guys and your families too god bless the m&m boys.i"m seriously tearing up now i really really love those 2 guys.

I love the two blazer commentators they are hilarious. Rice is fiery and a edgy like R2D2 and like C3P0 Barret is always trying to cover up for Rice and keep him under control. A blazer game when i have to listen to the TNT or ESPN calls is no where near as entertaining as listening to Mike and Mike have a down right good time doing their jobs.

I just love how Mike Rice forgets where he is sometimes, or honestly doesn’t seem to remember where his last game is. I’m sure that spending a week at a time on the road covering 50-some games in 4 months is going to get repetitive, but Rice gives it that ‘old man’ personality that’s like watching a game with my grandpa. It probably won’t always make sense, but at least I’m not watching a game with a robot (or worse, someone who only cares about his fantasy team). Kudos Mike & Mike!