Rewatching the whole race, now posted on youtube, with different announcers than NBC Sports in the morning. And I see what people were saying about their complete condescension of Kawauchi in the first mile. It is kind of delicious knowing what we know now, but even if he hadn't won, he deserves a lot more respect than what these announcers showed him. He's the opposite of a camera hog and a complete novice.
Is that what you get from eating bad sushi? Because I have had Montezuma's Revenge, and did not like it.
agreed. the announcers were condescending. they thought he was some random amateur who was going to get spit out in the first 5k.
loved Boston this year. the year of the underdogs.
Very amateurish announcing. Couldn't be bothered to know who the people in the race were.
I also watched the NBC Sports broadcast earlier, so didn't hear this until now. Man, this is really bad. First all three announcers get Kawauchi's name wrong multiple times and Rawson reliably makes his idiotic "give him a piano" comment that I'm sure he thinks makes him sound really clever. Throughout the broadcast they alternately refer to him as Kawauchi/Kawachi, Yuki/Yuri and have a little chuckle at his expense each time he puts in a surge, while venerating athletes like Kandie that do the same. Kawauchi is not a favorite to win and so it's reasonable to regard him differently than guys like Kirui, but he isn't even remotely a Glenn Randall and doesn't deserve anything like this derision.
With all their incompetence (I'm not even mentioning all the other screw ups), It's honestly mystifying to me why these amateurs are tapped to call this race every year. Nepotism? It should be pretty easy to do much better than Rawson and Family Guy. Just get Brett Larner to do it -- by himself. Not the most engaging speaker, but at least he's professional and knows the sport. Yeah, yeah, the target audience is not LRC, but frankly I don't think casual viewers would tune in especially to listen to these clowns.
what a disgrace wrote:
I also watched the NBC Sports broadcast earlier, so didn't hear this until now. Man, this is really bad. First all three announcers get Kawauchi's name wrong multiple times and Rawson reliably makes his idiotic "give him a piano" comment that I'm sure he thinks makes him sound really clever. Throughout the broadcast they alternately refer to him as Kawauchi/Kawachi, Yuki/Yuri and have a little chuckle at his expense each time he puts in a surge, while venerating athletes like Kandie that do the same. Kawauchi is not a favorite to win and so it's reasonable to regard him differently than guys like Kirui, but he isn't even remotely a Glenn Randall and doesn't deserve anything like this derision.
With all their incompetence (I'm not even mentioning all the other screw ups), It's honestly mystifying to me why these amateurs are tapped to call this race every year. Nepotism? It should be pretty easy to do much better than Rawson and Family Guy. Just get Brett Larner to do it -- by himself. Not the most engaging speaker, but at least he's professional and knows the sport. Yeah, yeah, the target audience is not LRC, but frankly I don't think casual viewers would tune in especially to listen to these clowns.
You mean, you don't have actual runners doing the commentary!?
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