From "Kings announcer Bob Miller loves hockey, and it shows" by Diane Pucin at the LA Times:
Vin Scully, a fellow broadcasting Hall of Famer, is joyful for Miller."With a losing team, it's a grind," said the 82-year-old Dodgers legend, now in his 60th season with the team. "It's very hard to hold on to your enthusiasm when it's a bad game day after day after day.
"I salute Bob. It has to be extremely exciting for him, not just to go to the arena for another day of work, but you have the 'I can't wait to get there' feeling because it's truly meaningful.
"What Bob does is [he] sees the event with his eyes, not his heart," Scully said. "Fans see the same event with their hearts. Manny Ramirez comes up, man on base, if he gets a hit the Dodgers win. So if he hits a fly ball, for that split second the fans see what they want to see. You hear them roar and then you hear the 'ahh' because it's just a fly ball. An announcer can't do that. An announcer wills himself to see what it is. Bob does that."
This post will also act as your Kings Quarterfinals Game 6 Thread. Is it their last gasp, or can they push it to a Game 7?
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GO KINGS
For those that don't know, Bob Miller is AS GOOD at hockey play by play as Vinny is to baseball. That's not an overstatement.
Please my dear Kings, let your season continue at least one more game.if not I'll be tuck with this very mediocre Dodger team that is breaking my heart on a daily basis.
After a recent thread's comments about how bad other teams' announcers are (I believe Dibble, the Cubs', and the White Sox' announcers were all mentioned), this is a fitting post.
Go Kings!
Go you lovers of monarchy!!! Give me a little bit of happiness during this weekend.
Kings come out firing in the first. Still 0s
Ugh, 4 on 5 already.
that was a dumb penalty
the announcer just talked about fondling sticks
here we go again.
what happened there? VS blacked out right after the whistle
YA!!! GOAL!!
Game 7's are inevitable in hockey.
LET'S GO KINGS!
Fuck a Cannuck.
nice wraparound! Kings draw first blood!
how did he get that to go up in the air?
Hey, we take the lead!
Kings are definitely putting more pressure on the defense than previously.
Im not a big fan of the spurs but i would love to see the face on Cuban's face if the Mavs get knocked out in the first round.
Only the Orioles (3), Royals (7) and Pirates (7) have fewer wins than us
how the hell did Luo make that save?!
what a crazy save!
how the hell did he do that?
sheeeit
fuck
and two of Pirates seven wins are against us. I need a drink.
Crap.
Make it two.
@Paul - I like your injured Battletoad pic
If this game goes to OT I'm gonna have a heart attack.
2-1!!!
wow!
that was a blast
We're back!
Oh jeez. Well a lead into the 3rd.
just gotta stay aggressive in the third.
Gotta keep the puck in the Canucks' zone.
Thanks FB
In memory of our fightin amphibian until he can get that arm working again.
how did that not go in? did it go through a hole in the net?
on the replay, that still didn't look right. It was like a bug in a video game
The 12 most important minutes of the season.
Damn that was close.
Kings have cooled off considerably.
yeah they are a little sloppy too. I hope they can turn it up here
Too often they just slap the puck out of there zone, and they're just giving it right back to the Canucks. They need to control.
Kopi looked like he did the splits there, groin maybe?
There is your season.
how did that get in?
damn gingers
GODDAMMIT
what a long weekend this has been
Shit. 4-2 Canucks.
get those canadians out of LA.
I hope this is the only LA team that gets knocked out in the first round this year.
This string of crappy sports results is starting to wear me down.
Fuckitall. Piece of crap.
Did I mention that I'm seriously pissed right now?
A Sunday night that requires a beer run is unfortunate.
Mr. C
I think a beer run is never unfortunate but if it is required then it can get ugly.
@Paul
Yes. The night is unfortunate, the beer restores the balance (ironically).
Giants lost.
Today is only a 99% fail.
I think I need to read the Denial of Death to cheer me up.
No a beer run and some music to deny the Dodgers mediocre start seems more appropriate.
@Paul
I can lend you Anna Karenina if you want to lighten the mood.
Mr C
I think Dostoevsky's Demons may be more in line. If only as an excuse to have some vodka.
I sense a lot of pain and loss in this thread.
has anyone seen my keys?
I just stubbed my toe, does that count?
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