Kerber and Vitale … are excruciating

[hotrivets]

I watched the first 2 periods last night and I thought they were better and stayed on topic better. There was some story about eggs but I was watching baseball also and muted them.

[seattleblue]

This is brutal. This endless inane self involved cleverness instead of what’s happening on the ice. This is a pathetic downgrade.

What’s done is done but the new ones they’ve chosen deserve to get rough feedback.

I like Kerber and Joey a lot. I think people just like to complain...

No sale. Most everyone posting here has heard them do a broadcast before. I'm not looking forward to this, they have already destroyed their credibility with me. The out-of-pocket cost to me (reportedly $209 for NHL Center Ice, plus $119.99 for ESPN+) has gone up and the quality of the broadcasts I'm paying for will drop significantly. This promises to be an exciting season on the ice, we fans deserve FAR better consideration and treatment and as a paying customer I have a right to speak up.

You are entitled to your opinion however little value it may have.

... sez the outlier minority opinion to the overwhelming majority opinion ...

You live in a vacuum that doesn’t really matter…

honestly you seem like you're pretty worthless as a contributor, so

Your contribution is to continue to complain about a decision the Blues made that they obviously don’t agree with you on…you and all the other boomers need to give it up Karen.

lol you want to hear about Kerber's daughters at the Jonas Brothers concert and stupidly think I'm a boomer. you're pretty dum

[theograce]

This is brutal. This endless inane self involved cleverness instead of what’s happening on the ice. This is a pathetic downgrade.

What’s done is done but the new ones they’ve chosen deserve to get rough feedback.

I like Kerber and Joey a lot. I think people just like to complain...

No sale. Most everyone posting here has heard them do a broadcast before. I'm not looking forward to this, they have already destroyed their credibility with me. The out-of-pocket cost to me (reportedly $209 for NHL Center Ice, plus $119.99 for ESPN+) has gone up and the quality of the broadcasts I'm paying for will drop significantly. This promises to be an exciting season on the ice, we fans deserve FAR better consideration and treatment and as a paying customer I have a right to speak up.

You are entitled to your opinion however little value it may have.

... sez the outlier minority opinion to the overwhelming majority opinion ...

You live in a vacuum that doesn’t really matter…

honestly you seem like you're pretty worthless as a contributor, so

Your contribution is to continue to complain about a decision the Blues made that they obviously don’t agree with you on…you and all the other boomers need to give it up Karen.

The blues made a decision and traded Pronger for Brewer and didn’t agree with me. They traded half their team for Garth butcher.

What a limp noodle argument to say the blues don’t agree with people.

[kimzey59]

Kerb's and Vitale have been rough in preseason.
That said; I think it bears mentioning that these games were not produced by the FDSN team.
Once the full team gets running; we'll be adding Strickland at rinkside and Pronger, Bernie and Rivers at intermission.
There's at least some hope that things might improve with the whole broadcast team involved(who knows, maybe Strickland can keep Vitale focused on the game).

[moose-and-squirrel]

Kerb's and Vitale have been rough in preseason.
That said; I think it bears mentioning that these games were not produced by the FDSN team.
Once the full team gets running; we'll be adding Strickland at rinkside and Pronger, Bernie and Rivers at intermission.
There's at least some hope that things might improve with the whole broadcast team involved(who knows, maybe Strickland can keep Vitale focused on the game).

hoping for Strickland to be anything but annoying is a reach

[11WSChamps]

This is brutal. This endless inane self involved cleverness instead of what’s happening on the ice. This is a pathetic downgrade.

What’s done is done but the new ones they’ve chosen deserve to get rough feedback.

I like Kerber and Joey a lot. I think people just like to complain...

No sale. Most everyone posting here has heard them do a broadcast before. I'm not looking forward to this, they have already destroyed their credibility with me. The out-of-pocket cost to me (reportedly $209 for NHL Center Ice, plus $119.99 for ESPN+) has gone up and the quality of the broadcasts I'm paying for will drop significantly. This promises to be an exciting season on the ice, we fans deserve FAR better consideration and treatment and as a paying customer I have a right to speak up.

You are entitled to your opinion however little value it may have.

... sez the outlier minority opinion to the overwhelming majority opinion ...

You live in a vacuum that doesn’t really matter…

honestly you seem like you're pretty worthless as a contributor, so

Your contribution is to continue to complain about a decision the Blues made that they obviously don’t agree with you on…you and all the other boomers need to give it up Karen.

Why bring a demographic into it?

Oh I know why..because you haven't got a clue as to what the (bleep) you are talking about.

Carry on.

[seattleblue]

"anna" instead of "and the" is grating, over time

[Rollie Fingers]

I think we are just beating a dead horse at this point. I would say that the verdict is in and we are hearing what we are going to be hearing. I do have to mute the sound at points but apparently this is what we have to deal with.

[wiscrev]

Kerb's and Vitale have been rough in preseason.
That said; I think it bears mentioning that these games were not produced by the FDSN team.
Once the full team gets running; we'll be adding Strickland at rinkside and Pronger, Bernie and Rivers at intermission.
There's at least some hope that things might improve with the whole broadcast team involved(who knows, maybe Strickland can keep Vitale focused on the game).

hoping for Strickland to be anything but annoying is a reach

This+

[TAFKAP]

I think we are just beating a dead horse at this point. I would say that the verdict is in and we are hearing what we are going to be hearing. I do have to mute the sound at points but apparently this is what we have to deal with.

I don't think it's as bad as Dan Kelly Jr. doing PBP and Bernie Federko on color. THAT was a hate crime.

[dhsux]

I am refraining comment at present because I mostly saw the espn+ games that did not carry Kerbs and Vitale.

However having criticized this move to the max before any games were played I remain skeptical to say the least.

[BobbyOrr]

Kerb's and Vitale have been rough in preseason.
That said; I think it bears mentioning that these games were not produced by the FDSN team.
Once the full team gets running; we'll be adding Strickland at rinkside and Pronger, Bernie and Rivers at intermission.
There's at least some hope that things might improve with the whole broadcast team involved(who knows, maybe Strickland can keep Vitale focused on the game).

hoping for Strickland to be anything but annoying is a reach

Never happen,
Froggy/ Kermit, the incompetent clown, only has a job through nepotism..

[Old_Goat]

Let's be optimistic, maybe now we won't have to listen to the cute back & forth fawning like a teeny bopper crush over John Hamm, as he sits in the booth for a full period a few times each season, while some great plays and goal scores go unnoticed by those whom are paid to announce & explain them.

[brianstlou2]

Let's be optimistic, maybe now we won't have to listen to the cute back & forth fawning like a teeny bopper crush over John Hamm, as he sits in the booth for a full period a few times each season, while some great plays and goal scores go unnoticed by those whom are paid to announce & explain them.

It’ll be worse with those fan-boys. They won’t even talk hockey.m the whole period. It’ll all be about Hamms movie career. They already don’t talk about hockey about 50% of the period. It’s about Vitales chickens, sour dough bread his 10 kids, or Italian heritage.

[noted]

This is brutal. This endless inane self involved cleverness instead of what’s happening on the ice. This is a pathetic downgrade.

What’s done is done but the new ones they’ve chosen deserve to get rough feedback.

I like Kerber and Joey a lot. I think people just like to complain...

No sale. Most everyone posting here has heard them do a broadcast before. I'm not looking forward to this, they have already destroyed their credibility with me. The out-of-pocket cost to me (reportedly $209 for NHL Center Ice, plus $119.99 for ESPN+) has gone up and the quality of the broadcasts I'm paying for will drop significantly. This promises to be an exciting season on the ice, we fans deserve FAR better consideration and treatment and as a paying customer I have a right to speak up.

You are entitled to your opinion however little value it may have.

... sez the outlier minority opinion to the overwhelming majority opinion ...

You live in a vacuum that doesn’t really matter…

honestly you seem like you're pretty worthless as a contributor, so

Your contribution is to continue to complain about a decision the Blues made that they obviously don’t agree with you on…you and all the other boomers need to give it up Karen.

lol you want to hear about Kerber's daughters at the Jonas Brothers concert and stupidly think I'm a boomer. you're pretty dum

I might be dumb...but at least I know how to spell it. Continue yelling into the void Karen...

[seattleblue]

This is brutal. This endless inane self involved cleverness instead of what’s happening on the ice. This is a pathetic downgrade.

What’s done is done but the new ones they’ve chosen deserve to get rough feedback.

I like Kerber and Joey a lot. I think people just like to complain...

No sale. Most everyone posting here has heard them do a broadcast before. I'm not looking forward to this, they have already destroyed their credibility with me. The out-of-pocket cost to me (reportedly $209 for NHL Center Ice, plus $119.99 for ESPN+) has gone up and the quality of the broadcasts I'm paying for will drop significantly. This promises to be an exciting season on the ice, we fans deserve FAR better consideration and treatment and as a paying customer I have a right to speak up.

You are entitled to your opinion however little value it may have.

... sez the outlier minority opinion to the overwhelming majority opinion ...

You live in a vacuum that doesn’t really matter…

honestly you seem like you're pretty worthless as a contributor, so

Your contribution is to continue to complain about a decision the Blues made that they obviously don’t agree with you on…you and all the other boomers need to give it up Karen.

lol you want to hear about Kerber's daughters at the Jonas Brothers concert and stupidly think I'm a boomer. you're pretty dum

I might be dumb...but at least I know how to spell it. Continue yelling into the void Karen...

I purposely misspelled it for a grace note to underscore how utterly stupid you are. Can you spell imbecile