WTF is Wrong With This Guy?
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Note: The video above features 3 announcers, just scrub forward to the 48 second mark to hear Dave Mishkin. I personally don’t mind the other two announcers at all. Honest.
I guess some announcers or play-by-play guys fall into the “Awesome” or “Horrible” categories, but perhaps most are in the “Alright/No Complaints” department.
Since the start of the season, I’ve heard a lot of Tampa Bay play-by-play guy Dave Mishkin, and I have to ask: Why in the name of all that is sacred does he still have a job?
Don’t get me wrong. I love it when an announcer injects some passion into his work, and if he’s a true fan, that’s great! I can even tolerate biased commentary. But Mishkin’s screaming is seriously verging on lunatic.
To his credit, when describing the action on the ice, he’s great. But as soon as Tampa scores a goal he changes. And it isn’t pretty. While listening to him, you can vividly imagine him tearing off his own penis and beating his color man with it, all the while maniacally chanting the Lightning player’s name over and over and over. I’m worried.
I’d love to hear from Tampa fans and find out of they actually like this guy? And if so, what the hell is wrong with them?
If you have RealMedia installed, you can hear two more clips here and here.
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March 6th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
As for Mishkin, if you’re that surprised when your team scores, it says a lot about your team. I’ll take “Hey, Hey Whaddya say?” from John Forslund over that any day.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
The guy announcing for the Lightning was f-ing terrible.
It was interesting getting a climpse of “A Night In The Life Of Mrs. Roy”, though.
March 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Like you said, Mishkin is really good when describing the on ice action. The guy before Mishkin was just AWFUL (the guy before that went on to do work for the Stars - Larry Hirsch - and he was wonderful). Mishkin is best taken with a grain of salt. He’s cut down on his “WTF, air raid??” calls this season but every now and then he’s good for a couple ear splitting shrieks. If he were terrible at calling the game action it would be one thing but to die hard Lightning fans his antics are novelty at worst, mildly amusing at best.