Ron MacLean is a dirtbag!!!

[Kidder]

His name is Ronald
We know him as Ron MacLean
He is a clown
Not from the burger chain
Oh how he sucks
When talking bout pucks
He just doesn’t know when to scram
And he doesn’t hold up well on CP

Cause he’s just a senile dirtbag baby
Yeah he’s just a senile dirtbag baby
Dragging down HNIC lately for me
Oooh oooh ooh ooh oooooh

His partner was Grapes
Not the kind in Ron’s glass
Suit made up of drapes
And mouth of a hardnosed ass
Coach’s Corner each week
We’d hear Cherry speak
And Ron would sneak in some puns
And we wouldn’t give a damn on CP

Cause he’s just a senile dirtbag baby
Yeah he’s just a senile dirtbag baby
Ruining the first intermission weekly for me
Oooh oooh ooh ooh oooooh

Oh yeaaaaah, dirtbag
We don’t know bout what he’s riffing
Oh yeaaaaah, dirtbag
Listening to him has got us miffing

Man I feel old
40 years and he’s still going
Low and behold
There’s his smug face on tv
My fist starts to shake
As he bloviates
How hasn’t he gotten the can?
And why does he ramble on endlessly

Gimme a glass of beer or some wine or three
In four years the Oil’ll have a dynasty
Cause I’m just plain senile dirtbag crazy
It’s true

Oooooh ooooh ooooh oooh oooh

Oh yeeeeah, dirtbag
We don’t know what CBC’s thinking
Oh yeeeeah, dirtbag
Ron’s not the only one who’s drinking

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by jayswin

No, he's not universally hated, that's an absurd take.

He's universally hated if your universe is a small bubble of online hockey fans.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

Only the most progressive among us can use broad brush strokes and labels to sum up peoples lives.

You can be both a Canadian legend and a bigot.

Nuance is allowed; no broad strokes required.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by jayswin

No, he's not universally hated, that's an absurd take.

Everybody that watches hockey can't stand Ron so you must take everything literally when I said "universally". That is an absurd take. You are right, people who never watch hockey don't despise Ron MacLean. Happy? Lol

[Yamer]

I don't hate or despise Ron MacLean and I watch hockey.

He had his value for a time, but that time is over. I'm entirely indifferent to him.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Yamer

I don't hate or despise Ron MacLean and I watch hockey.

He had his value for a time, but that time is over. I'm entirely indifferent to him.

Love hearing about McDavid and the Oilers do ya?

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

“woke mob”

L

I imagine this is how you feel when you post your smarmy bullcrap and think you're so clever

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

I imagine this is how you feel when you post your smarmy bullcrap and think you're so clever

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by BigThief

He's universally hated if your universe is a small bubble of online hockey fans.

Yep. I've never heard anyone outside this forum express any strong opinions about Ron Maclean. The hate on CP is weird.

According to Sportsnet themselves, 60 per cent of NHL fans are over 50. And sports fans typically like familiar faces and voices on their broadcasts. They'll keep Maclean around until he's no longer demonstrably able to do the job, or he retires voluntarily. He's only 65, and seems to enjoy the job, so don't expect that to happen any time soon. Bob Cole kept working broadcasts until he was 85.

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Yep. I've never heard anyone outside this forum express any strong opinions about Ron Maclean. The hate on CP is weird.

According to Sportsnet themselves, 60 per cent of NHL fans are over 50. And sports fans typically like familiar faces and voices on their broadcasts.

We hate him because he is a hardcore Oilers cheerleader. And he is a rat.

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by Rhett44

We hate him because he is a hardcore Oilers cheerleader. And he is a rat.

Neither of those are my reasons.

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Love hearing about McDavid and the Oilers do ya?

Some of us don't care.

[troutman]

Should Sportsnet part ways with Ron MacLean?
Yes, immediately 198 54.8 %
Yes, after his contract expires 82 22.7 %
No 81 22.4 %

https://www.hockeypatrol.com/nhl-tea...s-at-sportsnet

Are you a Ron MacLean fan?
yes 166 18.7 %
no 722 81.3 %

https://www.houseofhockey.net/nhl/ne...-is-under-fire

2015
Opinions about MacLean are consistent with last year’s survey, where 48 per cent said they were seeing too little of him under the new format, and three-quarters (74%) said his reduced role was “hurting the show”.

https://angusreid.org/hockey-night-in-canada-dec2015/

Howard Berger

I can tell you, without equivocation, that you’ll never meet a nicer, more cordial and pleasant backstabber than Ron MacLean. The first three adjectives are mine; the latter, a non–stop, prodigious and largely inexplicable sentiment amid television viewers in our country that once threatened to boycott Hockey Night In Canada during a salary squabble between MacLean and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). This fall from grace is unlike anything in the modern history of sports media. In fact, it is nothing shy of a phenomenon.

https://betweentheposts.ca/2023/07/t...an-phenomenon/

https://nationalpost.com/news/don-ch...ed-ron-maclean

Don Cherry said his departure from Hockey Night in Canada in 2019 was not an orchestrated “exit strategy” related to health concerns, as was recently suggested by Ron MacLean, his ex-longtime on-air partner.

“I’m very disappointed in Ron that he would bring this up,” Cherry, 91, told the Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington in a conversation about MacLean’s assertions. “I’m very disappointed that he would reach back five years and do this.”

“He should let it go,” he added.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Yep. I've never heard anyone outside this forum express any strong opinions about Ron Maclean. The hate on CP is weird.

According to Sportsnet themselves, 60 per cent of NHL fans are over 50. And sports fans typically like familiar faces and voices on their broadcasts. They'll keep Maclean around until he's no longer demonstrably able to do the job, or he retires voluntarily. He's only 65, and seems to enjoy the job, so don't expect that to happen any time soon. Bob Cole kept working broadcasts until he was 85.

Don't quote the troll. Try putting him on block like the rest of us and let him rant to himself. The guy is a multiple time suspended poster, ignore him.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Goriders

You mean a salt of the earth patriot?

I find it curious that people call Cherry a patriot while simultaneously despising MacLean. If there's anything that Ron comes as close to loving as himself, it's Canada.

The work he's done on programs like Hockey Day in Canada and Hometown Hockey demonstrate his passion for this country. The one thing I appreciate about him is how he digs into the little stories and history in the nooks and crannies across Canada. Sure, he's a poet in his own mind only, and he generally comes off as a self-important wiener, but he's just as much a patriot as Don Cherry.

So maybe it isn't the patriotism or nationalistic values you admire so much, but rather the way Don thinks and speaks to which you relate. It's less the love for Canada, and more the jingoism and xenophobia.

Kind of like how the people that rallied around him telling immigrants to wear a poppy in November are the same ones clutching pearls over pride jerseys and pissing and moaning every June.

Maybe just stop tying to make your s###ty beliefs palatable because it all still tastes like s###.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Yep. I've never heard anyone outside this forum express any strong opinions about Ron Maclean. The hate on CP is weird.

Canucks fans tend to absolutely hate Ron. Hell the entire Canucks organization wouldn't do a CBC/Sportsbet hit involving Ron for close to ten years.

[Rhett44]

Originally Posted by Yamer

I find it curious that people call Cherry a patriot while simultaneously despising MacLean. If there's anything that Ron comes as close to loving as himself, it's Canada.

The work he's done on programs like Hockey Day in Canada and Hometown Hockey demonstrate his passion for this country. The one thing I appreciate about him is how he digs into the little stories and history in the nooks and crannies across Canada. Sure, he's a poet in his own mind only, and he generally comes off as a self-important wiener, but he's just as much a patriot as Don Cherry.

So maybe it isn't the patriotism or nationalistic values you admire so much, but rather the way Don thinks and speaks to which you relate. It's less the love for Canada, and more the jingoism and xenophobia.

Kind of like how the people that rallied around him telling immigrants to wear a poppy in November are the same ones clutching pearls over pride jerseys and pissing and moaning every June.

Maybe just stop tying to make your s###ty beliefs palatable because it all still tastes like s###.

There is one thing Ron may love more than himself, McDavid and Draisaitl. He's awful.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

The guy is a multiple time suspended poster

That's literally half the posters on this forum.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

That's literally half the posters on this forum.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by troutman

https://nationalpost.com/news/don-ch...ed-ron-maclean

Is it just me or does this sound nothing like a Cherry quote?