NBC, you suck and dropped the ball AGAIN!

[Agent 0659]

You continue to fu*k up your golf coverage, year after year. Whatever you do, dont show us ANY camera angles of what Mickelson faced, or for that matter, dont even bother showing the ball flight AT ALL. MORONS!! Am I the only one that noticed? :shrug:

 

[yyz]

I don't think they had any cameras that far off of the course............

 

[Sun Tzu]

I don't think they had any cameras that far off of the course............

Yep....I dont think they had "Agent-Cams" in the production budget.

 

[Agent 0659]

ha ha, he he, Agent cams, kinda funny...

 

[bsucards]

I don't think they had any cameras that far off of the course............

Mickelson's tee shot on the 18th went so far left that it clattered through the trees by a hospitality tent, into the trampled rough.

I agree that this is probably where Agent would have a camera near the hospitality tent :mj07: :mj07: :mj07:

 

[DETROIT]

I think there could have been a camera down the line so we could see how big of a cut he was trying to play. NBC is a joke. Also, did anyone catch when Johny Miller said that you had to hit the putt harder when your shadow covers the hole. I'm sure it was just a slip of the tongue but what an idiot.

 

[RollTide72]

Yeah, NBC's coverage was average at best. At least we didn't have to hear Jim Nantz fall all over himself trying to say something poetic... and did you see Bob Costas' hair? :scared Nice dye job!

I can't stand Johnny Miller, but you have to admire his balls for calling things the way he sees them. "Ben Hogan must be rolling in his grave right now. I can't believe he didn't hit 4-wood there. This is a nightmare. You couldn't have worst decisions on this hole. I know you all like Phil, but come on, all you have to do is make par on this hole. You don't have to run down the stretch on a white stallion. You can limp in there and say 'thanks for the trophy'." :com:

I do think the graphics that NBC uses for the greens are pretty cool... where they drop the virtual golf balls on the green so you can see where they would wind up.

A camera angle none of the networks uses very much is when someone is putting, to have a camera low to the ground so you can track the ball and see how it breaks or not. I think it's cool to watch putts that way.

My guess is in a few years we will be able to call up our own camera angles anyway, be our own producers. I know that last year on my DISH network for TBS' PAC-10 Saturday night game you could go to a 6 different channels for 6 different camera views. Pretty cool.

 

[Agent 0659]

I mean seriously, all they showed was Phil hitting from a side angle, and then you hear a "click" and "uh oh", then they show him walking. Was it a terrible play by Phil? I dont have a fu*king clue because the idiots never showed the shot he was trying to hit??? My guess is he was trying to punch it into one of the front bunkers but was he trying to hit it through a 2 ft gap or was it a fairly simple shot and he just gaffed it???

As for Johnny Miller, he was fresh and I liked him for the first year or so, but now he is ALWAYS trying to manufacture some big statement. As for Nantz, yea Im glad we didnt have to listen to him try to make love to every story, that gets old too.

 

[SixFive]

I mean seriously, all they showed was Phil hitting from a side angle, and then you hear a "click" and "uh oh", then they show him walking. Was it a terrible play by Phil? I dont have a fu*king clue because the idiots never showed the shot he was trying to hit??? My guess is he was trying to punch it into one of the front bunkers but was he trying to hit it through a 2 ft gap or was it a fairly simple shot and he just gaffed it???

.

Agree, thought the same thing. The only way I knew what happened was the second shot was 215 yards, and the third shot was 185 yards. The announcers actually said it hit a big tree and went backwards which it didn't. Do they not have any mobile camera men? They sure showed enough shots of him on the holes before, especially the one where he hit the ball and ran out into the fairway to see the result. That wasn't all tower cams.

 

[amhlilhaus]

the camera viewing him from the side could have shown us the shot he was facing, they're all mobile camera's, that's why we had such beautiful shots of him punching from the rough, from behind all day until the crucial 18th.

I'm glad he lost, he deserved to playing like a idiot like that.

 

[IntenseOperator]

Not that I watched

Mike & Mike made light of the exact thing Agent is talking about this morning on their show. They said the tv crew did a shiit job.

 

[no pepper]

Have to agree that the coverage on the shot was real weak. This was the final pairing so there should have been plenty of cameras available for the most dramatic shot of the four days of coverage. There were plenty of cameras on him after the gaff, "He looks ashen!" and all that shit.

I don't know what's worse though. NBC or Mick's poor decision. It seemed like it never occurred to him to play it safe, play for the bogie and tie. You would have to love his chances in the 18 hole playoff against Ogilvy. Maybe they talked about it before at some point. What kind of caddie wouldn't bring up playing it safe/smart?

 

[Franky Wright]

Mike & Mike made light of the exact thing Agent is talking about this morning on their show. They said the tv crew did a shiit job.

Probably why Dan Patrick brought it up too :shrug: I swear, these guys just follow each others leads (talk sports radio) all day..........

Good job Agent :SIB

Franky

 

[Agent 0659]

How do we know its a shit play? I mean I guess it was , and the way he was spraying that driver I thought he might kill someone so he should have been hitting something else from the tee but I dont know about the punch out, it may have been a really easy shot. No reason to punch straight sideways if all you have to do is avoid one limb. I think it was more severe than that but I guess we will never know :shrug:

Seems I should get my own sports talk show :com:

 

[IE]

Seems I should get my own sports talk show :com:

give jersey johnny a hollow there agent........ could be right in your ballpark with your posts here at madjacks for your resume??



http://www.wibc.com/shows/

"Jersey Johnny makes you laugh and makes you, well, laugh harder."

 

[Franky Wright]

Seems I should get my own sports talk show :com:

Yea, and your first guest could be BDB :scared :SIB

 

[lostinamerica]

There was a segment on The Golf Channel in which Frank Nobilo went down to the spot and showed the shot - under a limb about 9 feet high (the first trunk wasn't a big issue) that was maybe fifteen yards ahead, and with a BIG carve to the left around a BIG elm. The utility box he ended up just in front of for his 3rd shot was in the picture and added excellent perspective to what transpired. I have to believe the shot required at least 70 yards of slice in the air in order to roll the next 50 yards left, as a straight pull would have missed the green by almost 150 yards. As Phil said in his comments, "it wasn't close," as the shot started too far left and went deep into the elm branches. With the fairway sloping left to right, I'm not sure there was a layup shot to anything approaching 160 yards of the hole that didn't stand a good chance of running through the fairway . . . "SUCH AN IDIOT," is forever the epitaph for his play from the 18th tee.

GL

 

[yyz]

.......Hit it in the fairway, and you don't have to guess what "trick play" to hit on your second shot.

(Just ask Monty!)