James Tanner: A Note to Sportsnet on How to Properly Broadcast a Hockey Game

You lost me at musical guests.
Dumbest. Idea. Ever.

I cant wait for Sportsnet to retort on how to properly write a blog

Ron wears hideous jackets? I'm sure you meant Don

Ron wears hideous jackets? I'm sure you meant Don
- BALUCHA

No, I mean Ron.

There's barely enough time for the substantive analysis and pre-taped bits you want, which would be nice, they can't cram in musical guests also. And I want hockey, not a variety show.

Besides they'd probably foist lame Canadian hipster music like Arcade Fire on us.

There's barely enough time for the substantive analysis and pre-taped bits you want, which would be nice, they can't cram in musical guests also. And I want hockey, not a variety show.

Besides they'd probably foist lame Canadian hipster music like Arcade Fire on us.
- Zezel

Musical guests are just for opening and closing. Arcade Fire is one of the best bands of all-time.

Just awful ideas. This is why you don't work in tv

Arcade Fire sucks. As does Joydrop. |


As does the idea of having musical guests.

Most ideas, especially as they relate to a younger vibe, deserve a fair hearing. Upgrading announcers/analysts would be my first priority. Please, no more Regis!

Musical guests are just for opening and closing. Arcade Fire is one of the best bands of all-time.

That would've been true if they had only put out their first 3 albums (Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs). Funeral is one of my favourite albums ever.

The rest is pure crap. They've started to take themselves way too seriously, and to believe they were actually that good. That's been their downfall.

Most ideas, especially as they relate to a younger vibe, deserve a fair hearing. Upgrading announcers/analysts would be my first priority. Please, no more Regis!
- Dr Blob

Who is Regis? This is the second reference I've seen to him but I only know of the guy from that game show.

That would've been true if they had only put out their first 3 albums (Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs). Funeral is one of my favourite albums ever. The rest is pure crap.
- redseerpf

The best Arcade Fire album - by a long shot - is Reflektor.

Just awful ideas. This is why you don't work in tv
- legendguy

yes well I'll bet you're over 60 years old. And I suppose you think there's nothing wrong with the current format.

The best Arcade Fire album - by a long shot - is Reflektor.
- James_Tanner

My god Jimmy. That's like...something that should get you incarcerated.

My god Jimmy. That's like...something that should get you incarcerated.
- redseerpf

You must just have bad taste dude, cause it's easily a contender for best album of this decade.

+1 on most of those ideas.

-100 on the musical guests.

You must just have bad taste dude, cause it's easily a contender for best album of this decade.
- James_Tanner

Good lord Jimmy, it's getting worse and worse.

All of Kurt Vile's album since Smoke Ring, all three War of Drugs' albums since Slave Ambient, The Whole Love (Wilco), Yuck, Alt-J's first, Attack on Memory (Cloud Nothings), In Our Heads (Hot Chip), Port of Morrow (The Shins), Lonerism (Tame Impala), Light Up Gold (Parquet Courts), Courtney Barnett, Father John Misty, Kendrick Lamar, A Moon Shaped Pool (Radiohead), You Want It Darker (Leonard Cohen), American Dream (LCD Soundsystem), the list goes on and on and on and on.....

Arcade Fire's recent crap is nowhere near any of those.

Should I even read it? Let me guess.

"everyone is a moron"

"I James Tanner am the smartest and the best at everything. Whatever I believe right now is the absolute truth. Anybody who disagrees with me is a moron. I would say we should get rid of all the morons but if there are no morons then who can I insult to make me feel better about my own pitiful existence."

Can Sportsnet hire Samantha Bee and take her back to Canada and off the US airwaves.

I bet tanner liked The awful George strombo-however you spell his name, when he was on there. Getting rid of panels and not breaking down the game being broadcasted during intermissions is a pretty bad take. If they switched to segments of other stuff I would rather use that time to go take a dump. It’s easy to see that tanner is more entertained by gimmicks than the sport himself. For example subban is entertaining and good every once a while but I’ve seen too many interviews where the majority of the conversation is about whatever non-hockey related sideshow he has going on. Oak/McGuire are terrible everyone knows that. Burke isn’t bad offers a perspective that many might not agree with but he is informed in the other side of the game that doesn’t get talked about a lot. Kyper you may not like cause he’s harsh and sure he’ll have a bad take, but his good takes are spot on. Personally I would say the best on tv right now is kelly hrudey. To think that a bunch of suits know better than guys that have actually played the game about what is going on on the ice makes zero sense.

"Hire a producer between 35 and 45 years old
Someone with some new ideas, who might have a taste for the classic and some idea about young people."

So how old are you Jimmy? You obviously can't relate to the classic when you dismiss everyone over 60. You keep revealing more areas that you don't have a clue about. And the only thing worse than the song Reflektor was the video with the giant paper mache heads. It looked like it was made by a bunch of high school students.
Perhaps you should devote a whole article to Elliot Friedman's "sexual charisma". It'd be better than the usual.

Should I even read it? Let me guess.

"everyone is a moron"

"I James Tanner am the smartest and the best at everything. Whatever I believe right now is the absolute truth. Anybody who disagrees with me is a moron. I would say we should get rid of all the morons but if there are no morons then who can I insult to make me feel better about my own pitiful existence."
- Njuice

Pretty much.

Jimmy, you should spend half the season watching the NBC sports broadcasts of Leafs games. I say Leafs games because we all know you don't watch the team that you blog for play games.

Get back to us in the end of January after you've seen what a truly horrible hockey broadcast is. You'll be begging for Ron & Don, and even Hughson to stay forever.

"Hire a producer between 35 and 45 years old
Someone with some new ideas, who might have a taste for the classic and some idea about young people."

So how old are you Jimmy? You obviously can't relate to the classic when you dismiss everyone over 60. You keep revealing more areas that you don't have a clue about. And the only thing worse than the song Reflektor was the video with the giant paper mache heads. It looked like it was made by a bunch of high school students.
Perhaps you should devote a whole article to Elliot Friedman's "sexual charisma". It'd be better than the usual.
- marty555

He's 35 but pretends he's a millennial. His likeness for Elliot Friedman is creepy.