I would _never_ try to catch sports on television, anyway. I'd rather go 
without than try to fill in the blanks that the so-called play-by-play 
announcer leaves because describing something to somebody who is using a 
visual medium is...well, pretty stupid, if you think about it. It's either 
radio or nothing for me where all sports are concerned and that's been my 
rule for a lot of years. In addition to the lack of any meaningful 
description, television sound engineers could take a lot of lessons from 
radio sports broadcast engineers where crowd noise is concerned. I've never 
yet tried to listen to any sporting event on radio where the crowd totally 
blotted out the announcers, but this happens all the time on television. 
It's just not worth all the hassle.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Olver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: another freeby possibly going away


yah, but I bet it'll be on Sirius.

Fred Olver