I was getting ready to post something on what a comfort it is to see Ron Franklin’s name on the ESPN announcers guest list for 2010, but I’ll let Spencer Hall say it instead:
FRESH BREEZE. Is his exile over? Did he submit to the obscene, unspeakable sexual torture rites administered by ESPN higher-ups in torchlit cloisters by men in opera masks and red robes? Paris is worth a mass, and having Ron Franklin back would be worth a ruined ass, since he is listed as a returning announcer and, if there is any justice on this harsh prairie of existence, will be calling games of significance (i.e. not late November Big 12 games) on Saturday afternoons.
That ESPN still has Mike Patrick and Craig James calling some SEC night games is an obscenity, but progress is always an incremental thing while disaster happens all at once. We all know that’s still Ron’s seat, and everyone else is just keeping it warm for the Silver Fox’s magnificent ass.*
Ditto on being subjected to Craig James instead of Uncle Ron, but I’ll take what I can get from the WWL. (Especially if it doesn’t involve Pam Ward’s voice.)
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I read the Spencer Hall bit through about three times in a row, and I still can’t figure out what the heck is going on. Did… did somebody sodomize Ron Franklin in a ceremony at ESPN Headquarters?
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It’s a reference to Franklin doing penance for the Holly Rowe incident.
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Oh, I remember him getting in trouble over all that stuff. I’m just saying, if that’s what I have to do to get back in ESPN’s good graces, hello Fox Sports Net!
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I kinda can’t believe they haven’t axed Craig James over his complete buffoonery in the Pirate Coach scandal.
But objectivity and integrity have never been on ESPN’s short list, I guess.
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It’s ESPN’s world and we’re just lucky to have them.
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Now, if we can just be spared from Bob Davie…fingers crossed we get a heapin’ helpin’ of uncle Ron going forward.
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1. “They’ve gotta spike the ball here!” – Pam Ward on a 4th down play!
And for a trip and hard fall down memory lane, there’s more where that came from and we’ll soon be hearing even bigger and better ones!
http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2008/11/your-pammy-winners-and-new-standings.html
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So, if he’s doing the SEC B game, does that take some of the sting out of a mediocre year?
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