This was the exact reason I wasn't into the podcast earlier. I ultimately decided to deal with it as the rest of the podcast, particularly the interviews, is excellent. Kind of gotten used to it, the pod would have been insufferable if the B's had won, thankfully that didn't happen.
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This was the exact reason I wasn't into the podcast earlier. I ultimately decided to deal with it as the rest of the podcast, particularly the interviews, is excellent. Kind of gotten used to it, the pod would have been insufferable if the B's had won, thankfully that didn't happen.
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Not only is RA's accent terrible, he always puts the brakes on when he asks a question. Someone will be telling an awesome story (usually non-hockey) and RA will instantly ask a boring hockey question. I understand its technically a hockey podcast, but I'm more interested in the more personal stories these guys have to tell.
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Shady Machine
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Which adds another humorous angle. I get the accent can be annoying, but I like the dynamic they have.
how is tim benz so prolific at the trib. his terrible content is unrelenting
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That said, I only really apply that to his bad sports writing/sports views, given that I'm this board's token pinko communist.
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I'm just still mystified at how much Kingerski just plain gets wrong.
But I'd put Smizik up there as GOAT worst Pittsburgh sports media person, at least the worst in the last 50 years.
But I'd put Smizik up there as GOAT worst Pittsburgh sports media person, at least the worst in the last 50 years.
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He is the worst of the worst. He's so bad, he's offensive. A blender would be too good for him. Realistically he should have been at best a substitute gym teacher.... that was his potential in life.
If your initials are DK and you work in the Pittsburgh sports media, it’s your calling in life to compose as much speculative BS as possible...
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Dejan's not even that bad. And like I said, it's not that Kingerski necessarily makes things up (though he gets REALLY testy when you insinuate that he does on HF), it's that he reports things after they've already happened and still gets them wrong.
I think Dejan writes too much gossipy stuff, like on Phil...I don’t really like those hit pieces...
I think Kingerski thinks he has sources, but he either doesn’t or they know nothing...
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I’ve probably mentioned this but one time at the Civic Arena Tim Benz sat next to me, and for some reason he could only muster nosebleed section “limited view” seats with an I-beam holding up the upper deck right in his lap. You couldn’t see anything without craning your neck around it. He kept getting up and walking away and this group of drunk guys behind him would hit on whoever the girl he was with was while he was gone. One used the beam like a stripper pole. Then when the crowd would chant “Let’s go Pens!” everyone around him would chant “Li-mited view!”
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Goddamn, those I-beams. I remember seeing a Pens game there in 1990 and they had this shitty tiny TV bolted to the I-beam (so you could watch the KBL feed if you were stuck in that seat.)
What a lovely, terrible barn that was.
What a lovely, terrible barn that was.
Mario_is_BACK!!
ACK! ACK ACK! ACK!!!
I really don’t think there’s a “media” member in Pittsburgh I can’t stand more than Kingerski. What an absolute fraud.
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I love the new barn and the stability (and actual ability to make some money) it provides. But MAN I miss that old opera house.
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The Civic Arena was a mess, but goddamn it, it was OUR mess.
I miss the character of the old arenas. The new ones are all practical and sensible and financially stable, but they don't have the same vibe.
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The Civic Arena was a mess, but goddamn it, it was OUR mess.
I miss the character of the old arenas. The new ones are all practical and sensible and financially stable, but they don't have the same vibe.
I agree. It was like that dingy, hole-in-the-wall bar that you kept going to because even though it was kind of a shithole it was YOUR shithole and was still a hell of a lot of fun.
I don't at all regret how things are. But I agree that there isn't much character to the new building or really any of these new buildings. They feel like... I dunno... Omaha, Nebraska.
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I am his faithful subscriber, his only mission is to stick it to the fans, whatever is conventional wisdom opinion he is on the opposite side, he is like MM in that sense, but I swore to follow him a few years back he was the only guy that took the trip to Detroit on a xmas eve to report on Pens game (or was it a new year eve), I am a sucker for those kinds of think,...he has uncanny ability to get just about everything wrong
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Those awesome old barns where the crowd is sitting like right on top of the ice and everything is packed sucked when they came to logistics but I love buildings that amplify the noise through the architecture.
Same reason I really hate Heinz Field. Everything is so much farther away and opened up that it doesn’t retain sound...besides the fact it looked out of date the day they opened the place up. At least PPG is an extremely nice building.
Same reason I really hate Heinz Field. Everything is so much farther away and opened up that it doesn’t retain sound...besides the fact it looked out of date the day they opened the place up. At least PPG is an extremely nice building.
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I don’t know why they made some of the concourses so narrow at PPG. It can be a real pain navigating during intermissions.
I don’t know if I miss the Civic arena or just those teams from the 1990’s. I do like the amenities in the club seats much better now and the boxes are great.
I don’t know if I miss the Civic arena or just those teams from the 1990’s. I do like the amenities in the club seats much better now and the boxes are great.
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