I hope Rick Ball gets another series in round 2. He's really great, and listening to all the different crews so far it shows how lucky we are as Flames fans with our regional tandem.
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I feel we earned it after dealing with the trifecta of Loubo, Kerr and Simmer for so long
Unfortunately, I worry with how good Ball is that he will be fast-tracked to the National broadcast team, and leave the Flames once again with a bad B-crew.
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"...harem warfare? like all your wives dressup and go paintballing?"
So instead of treating Cole like a professional and letting him know he wasn’t doing the playoffs they basically moved his desk to the basement, took away his stapler and figured it would just work itself out?
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I'm not surprised that a big corporation treated someone like a number. This goes beyond hockey, but you see how good people in large corporations more and more are given just a "do-your-job-and-shut-up" type of attitude over time. The attitude of we as a corporation don't owe you anything beyond a paycheque isn't healthy as a society. CBC was doing that a few years ago as well, and it's occurring in every large corp. It's just the reality of the dog eat dog world we're all in. Cole deserves much better.
Ball is probably the best PBP announcer there is. Definitely the best I’ve ever heard aside from Ed Whalen or Peter Maher and those guys are legends.
Hrudey is probably the best colour guy I’ve heard too. We really are very fortunate. How often do you ever hear of people complaining about either of them?
Never? That’s because they’re the best.
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Cuthbert is amazing though, agreed. Loubardias as colour is okay, would be amazing if he sped up hos words a bit. Talks a touch too slow for my liking but super knowledgeable and delivers infectious positivity.
Cuthbert is fantastic, always love his play by play and he is extremely knowledgeable about the game as well. He called the Flames-Ducks series for NBC in 2015 and his call on the Backlund Game 3 OT gave me chills. Will always remember it. It was the first time we’d heard him call a flames playoff series for a long time (could be as long ago as 2004, as we always seemed to get stuck with Mark Lee) and he didn’t disappoint.
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Pretty sure Cuthbert called the Flames and Hawks series in 09.
TSN carried that series(very rare for them to get a Canadian team) and I’m almost certain it was Cuthbert and McGuire.
Ball is probably the best PBP announcer there is. Definitely the best I’ve ever heard aside from Ed Whalen or Peter Maher and those guys are legends.
Hrudey is probably the best colour guy I’ve heard too. We really are very fortunate. How often do you ever hear of people complaining about either of them?
Never? That’s because they’re the best.
Never been overly impressed with Hrudey on color. He’s best suites on the panel.
