Kerber and Vitale

[Mr.Snuggleupagus]

I have a feeling that a new streaming service and broadcast team may be on the horizon next year. The Blues have an agreement with a different betting app plastered all over the boards at Enterprise. Kerbs and Vitale work for Fan Duel.

Quit pulling stuff outta your keister.

[fork] off troll boy.

You come up with some off the wall stuff ... you troglodyte.

[fork] off troll boy.

You have some serious issues. Does your wife, children and grandchildren know you behave like this?

[Aesa]

I have a feeling that a new streaming service and broadcast team may be on the horizon next year. The Blues have an agreement with a different betting app plastered all over the boards at Enterprise. Kerbs and Vitale work for Fan Duel.

Quit pulling stuff outta your keister.

[fork] off troll boy.

You come up with some off the wall stuff ... you troglodyte.

[fork] off troll boy.

You have some serious issues. Does your wife, children and grandchildren know you behave like this?

[fork] off troll boy. Does your mom know what you do in her basement?

[blues2112]

Feel bad for those who can only listen to the broadcast.

These two go minutes not moments when there is no idea where the puck is or what is happening.

You get what you pay for.

Listened to half of tonight's game on radio. Thought they were great. Bring energy.

Perfect? No. But I've never heard perfect hockey radio.

[Russdv14]

If you go back and read what I wrote earlier blues 2112, I agree with you that on the radio those two sound really good together because they’re filling in time with their little stories between the puck play with their banter. They stop & catch up when necessary to announce intense play in either zone or a shot or a goal.
However, watching it on TV, even though I can see where the puck goes, we need these TV announcers to stick with the play-by-play because the stories are distracting and too long. I want the color man, ie Joey to show replays and explain the decisions the players make around the puck.
On the radio, they are just there to be entertaining and filling the time because you don’t want any silence on a radio broadcast. I listen and like their personalities coming out on Radio, but on TV I am observing and want to know how the play developed and worked out and described showing many angles.
That’s why it doesn’t work to simulcast. The objective is different for watching versus listening. It does not help to hear a description of a replay on the radio because you have to see it to understand it.
One failure I’ve noticed with this year’s broadcast is the absence of multiple angles on the same play. That’s the beauty of TV. On Radio, we enjoy the energetic personalities as blues2112 said

[-Blueski-]

Feel bad for those who can only listen to the broadcast.

These two go minutes not moments when there is no idea where the puck is or what is happening.

You get what you pay for.

That would be me. I don't subscribe to any networks that have the Blues games. I did when all the games were Fox Sports Midwest years ago. I just needed it for road games as I'm at all the home games.

They've been getting worse this year on the broadcasts. You wouldn't believe how many times I'm listening and they go on these long tangents without saying anything about the game.

[zuck698]

Here's probably where you might be able to submit complaints:

https://support.fanduel.com/s/article/H ... FFanDuelSN

I went there and said this not that it will do any good, but I feel better anyway:

Kerbs and Vitale are simply terrible on this new gig. I tried to be patient and expected some growing pains, but these two almost make watching the game unbearable! I am sure they are fine people, but could someone please tell them there is a game happening, and no one cares what spices they use in cooking for 5 minutes or how many J's the Dunne family has in it in O'Fallon! Do play by play as they are paid to do instead of rambling on about everything but the game. I hate to think how bad it is for the poor radio listeners who actually miss huge segments of game action due to the vocal olympics of these 2 announcers. To think we went from what I considered one of the best broadcasting tandems in all of hockey, with JK and Panger, to this garbage in only a few short years, is really a disgrace and does nothing to encourage me to use your other services, such as online betting, etc.. I will use other locales for that. Thank you.

[dhsux]

I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt, but man, it sucks. So tired of hearing the [nonsense] talk about stupid (bleep).
It's really off-putting and we should have much better than this. Dumb.

I have a feeling that a new streaming service and broadcast team may be on the horizon next year. The Blues have an agreement with a different betting app plastered all over the boards at Enterprise. Kerbs and Vitale work for Fan Duel.

To me, this is all part of 101 espn bringing in "bro sports". Instead of intelligent talk, there's TMA with the creepy old man Doug Vaughn all bantering and reading listener emails for a half hour like junior high boys. It's so painful to listen to, IMO.
Might as well bring in Pat McAfee and Barstool on a straight stream.

I won't listen to McKernon.

I can't.

[dhsux]

It seems for me anyway the less they say on the air the better....so I guess I'm screwed.

Doesn't help either when I keep lamenting and reminding myself of this really bad decision Stillman made trying to save a dime.

[BobbyOrr]

I watched the Buffalo feed and it was glorious. Those two schmucks are an embarrasement.

Same Here, Buffalo called a game, no where near as much Homer (bleep).

Vitale has to go and so does Kermit the frog, just Awful !

[murrayz]

The poster was right on, who was listening to the radio broadcast and said there seemed to be 2 solid minutes of play during the final portion of the game, when Kerbs and Joey were literally ignoring the action. I was watching the TV broadcast, so I could see what was going on, but I still needed a play-by-play for identifying the players. These knuckleheads were talking endlessly about a Sabres’ player who grew up ln O’Fallon, and I kept waiting for the irrelevant, interminable story about him and his large family to END, but they KEPT ON GOING! I feel so bad for the radio listeners, who were kept completely in the dark during the last few minutes of the game, hearing the audible sounds of a hockey game, and wondering what was happening. Don’t these boneheads have bosses/producers who can speak to them about this issue? My goodness, how I miss JK. Why was he not renewed, those pesky “philosophical differences” again?

[Jatalk]

I’ve actually liked listening to Kerber and Vitale on the Internet radio when I couldn’t get to watch on the TV. However, watching the game on TV, I expect the play-by-play to follow the passes and the shots and the hits. But poor Joey has so much ADHD that he ropes Kerbs in to a different topic during the play-by-play.
A little banter back-and-forth works for me during the radio broadcast, but does not work at all on TV

I didn’t listen to the Buffalo broadcast, but I hate when the announcers are too generic and lack personality. That’s why Joe and Jack Buck never worked for me. They were too dull a game should be exciting to watch and listen to as the announcers should both reflect the tone of the game in their voices. Frankly, there were too many stories tonight. Kerber needs to be responding to the flow of the game, not weave a story during the play by play.

I agree. I’ve enjoyed them on radio but once on TV it’s hard to align what I’m seeing with the announcing. But overall I have listed to much worse.

[Hooking]

They are not good. Period.

[lidstrom5]

Do they even know there’s a game going on?

Is Vitale a professional waffle scraper?

The way he cheers he ought to have pom poms. Man he's hard to take for 2 1/2 hours.

[moose-and-squirrel]

Feel bad for those who can only listen to the broadcast.

These two go minutes not moments when there is no idea where the puck is or what is happening.

You get what you pay for.

Listened to half of tonight's game on radio. Thought they were great. Bring energy.

Perfect? No. But I've never heard perfect hockey radio.

yup.. people are just dogpiling, as usual. they're actually not bad

[11WSChamps]

Feel bad for those who can only listen to the broadcast.

These two go minutes not moments when there is no idea where the puck is or what is happening.

You get what you pay for.

Listened to half of tonight's game on radio. Thought they were great. Bring energy.

Perfect? No. But I've never heard perfect hockey radio.

yup.. people are just dogpiling, as usual. they're actually not bad

Not dog piling here.

They rant on for long stretches not identifying players or even what zone the puck is in.

Fans are having to try and recognize uniform numbers or names on the back of opposing jerseys to know who's making a play even when watching.

That's not professional and it's a poor way of doing the job.

[DawgDad]

It's akin to trying to serve two masters. I'm out-of-market so I watch all the games on TV. When Kerbs is announcing it's too much for TV, where he really just needs to call out which player has the puck or which ones are battling for it, and it comes in bursts between stretches of banter with the game action not being called at all. Radio listeners are missing a quarter to a third of every game.

So, I just turn the volume down lower. Kerbs comes through but Vitale fades into an unintelligible hum. I honestly couldn't tell you any one thing he was talking about other than when he got excited over a couple of saves Hofer made.