Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpm!cher From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Cherepov) Newsgroups: net.sport Subject: Re: sound in tennis tv coverage (Bud Collins) Message-ID: <583@ihlpm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 17:07:14 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpm.583 Posted: Sun Nov 10 17:07:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:15:54 EST References: <233@ucdavis.UUCP> <580@ihlpm.UUCP> <610@bonnie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 19 > Does anbody else remember when Bud was a really good tennis > commentator ... > Now, when I watch tennis matches on TV, I just turn down the > volume and listen to music instead. Well, given a choice between poor comments and no sound I would probably go with the former. When you do not hear stomping of feet, ball on the strings, etc.. it robs the show of a significant portion of it's liveliness. As for Bud - his little squeals + little puns (i.e. calling Zivoinovic "the Zagreb Zinger") are pretty unpleasant, but his co-host Dick Enberg sounded especially inapropriate. My favorive commentator would probably be Arthur Ashe - always knowlegeable and appropriate. I vas very amused every time he was trying to guess what kind of serve would a player hit on some critical point... Mike Cherepov