Walton and Pasch
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@dylans I’ve watched some of the Pac 12 games and of Course there he is. I feel sorry for the play by play guy, I don’t know how many times he keeps saying let’s get back to the game when Walton is rambling about GOD knows what.- - He needs to be yanked off, can’t be good, I know they are getting a lot of negative feedback. – ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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The third time I watche the game I didn’t find Walton as annoying. Probably because I was just looking for general entertainment at that point and not intently trying to watch a ball game. At that point I could just laugh at him and not get pissed he was ruining a basketball game.
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Walton probably gets relegated to his beloved home turf of Pac12 games from now on. The fans there know him. He is one of those SoCal types after all. Just isnt going to fly in the Midwest’s prevailing culture and sensibilities, as we see in comments here, and as a fellow Bucketeer above reported on what Texas fan boards are saying.
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Just finished watching the game…I was out last night.
Bill Walton is cooky as hell! Got some severe short term memory loss too.
I laughed at everything he said. It was distracting to the game but it was funny.
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@jaybate-1.0 said:
I believe board rats are prejudiced against Bill, because he looks increasingly like a near footer Bugs Bunny.
Nah, he looks like a near footer Foghorn Leghorn, freeking crazy rooster!
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@Fightsongwriter He obviously did what ESPN wanted him to do. It wasn’t Walton who showed full screen shots of him and Pasch throughout the game. It wasn’t Walton who went split screen for about 25% of the game. If I were to fire anybody it would be the producer of the broadcast. But don’t count on that to happen. Walton’s shtick is to be a drugged out dead head. Vitale’s job is to be an over the top rambler. If ESPN didn’t like or require them to do what they do it wouldn’t pay them to do it and it wouldn’t show it.
I did notice that about 6-8 times during the broadcast Walton made very astute comments on specific plays and players. Unfortunately that was only a small percentage of the time.
I thought that he was a bit over the top in his praise of KU. Think about how Texas fans must feel. He basically called them out of shape and a poor example of a basketball team. I’m sure that is mooing must have gone down real well (NOT) for those fans.
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@sfbahawk Spot on! I thought Walton gushed quite a bit about KU. But then he clearly sees KU as a royalty program, not unlike his own UCLA, and he made that pretty clear during all of his various goofy comments.
I have a strong suspicion that Walton is exactly playing a coached color role, exactly like Vitale is. Vitale confirmed this to my brother in law at a book signing in Sarasota. Bro-in-law was giving him grief about leaving KU’s Paul Pierce out of his book, and had a very detailed knowledgeable discussion with Vitale, who was very calm, and bright, well spoken in private…which then prompted my bro-in-law to say “you arent like this on TV, I notice, really enjoyed talking bball with you”, to which DVitale replied: “they (espn) want me to be that way on air”.
It would be PC inappropriate to make fun of truly advanced dementia on TV, and also seen as cruel to put someone with that diagnosis on TV and allow him to be filmed struggling. Personally, I think its all a coached act. Just like Vitale.
You nailed my belief, anyway…
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If that game would have been close I would have been po’d! Save him for half time entertainment. I went blind for awhile!
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Texas fans? Probably not any watching
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Espn should have run a banner on the bottom during the game, caution kids, this is what happens to your brain on drugs!
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@sfbahawk 25% - - -25% – 25 % ? - -we could of only wished 25% One thing for sure, he does his job of a fried out pot smoker for sure of being pot head, Walton is stuck in the 70’s - - news flash - -this IS NOT the 70’s I’ve read today from a lot of different sites about his demeanor yesterday, - -the changing of the shirts, the split screen - -so tell me was it ESPN that made Walton feel compelled to stripping off and changing shirts in the middle of a Nationally Telivised - broadcast?- - - -I don’t think so, oh pot head did that all on his own. - -Was it ESPN telling Walton to rub what ever in the hell that was all over his face over and over? - -I don’t think so. - This wasn’t some Broadway act he was auditioning for it was a College Nationally broadcast game, and I for one but NOT the only for sure don’t want to see all that crap, I’m here to watch basketball - -Not Walton making a ass out of himself.
If you counted 6-8 times he referred to the game consider yourself lucky. - -Hell he is so fried that when he was talking up KU, it was whacko, he Josh went in uncontested for a layup and for some reason missed badly and Walton’s response? - - -OH WHAT A PLAY, WHAT A PLAYER. - -WTH? they need to take a hard look, I’m sure besides the ones I’ve read today many , many , many , others are not happy, I really can’t be very sure that the West coast fans are happy with his broad casts either unless of course they were sitting there with him hitting the bong at the same time. – ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Walton might be a nut, but he certainly spoke highly of this KU team. That part was refreshing…no Aunt Franny.
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@KUSTEVE yeah, # 3 & 4 and plodding farmers.
Him and aunt franny should work together! Perfect match!
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I live in a community, several denizens of whom are active or former dope heads. Bill Walton might have fit right in with his surly brazen goofiness Saturday. What amazes me, ESPN telecaster reverting to the half screen so frequently to highlight the bizarre behavior. Walton obviously knows nothing essential about Big 12 Hoops. Did I not hear him mutter that he was surprised to learn that TCU was a member of our league? He brayed that he was not surprised at the Jayhawk string of titles. No big deal. Our league coaches should demand that he never return for a Big 12 broadcast. The guy belongs back on the West Coast; and ESPN needs to clean up its presentation. I am willing to wager that Bill Self will never again ask him to speak to his squad a few minutes before tipoff.
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@REHawk scared straight!
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@Crimsonorblue22 you’re too sensitive. he said our team was prolific.
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@KUSTEVE ha ha never been accused of that!
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@ralster Yeah man…Tell me how you really feel ?! I don’t like that punk ass either. I was so pissed when we lost to VCU I coulda shot out the damn tv. 2 days later I was having rotator cuff surgery so I was waaaaaaaaay out there with pain my damn self
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I don’t know if it is just me but when I want to watch comedy I tune in to the Comedy channel. When I watch a Saturday prime time featured game on the system that claim to be the top sports channel, I expect to hear competent announcing and commentary and not a freak side show.
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@JayHawkFanToo nailed it.
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I might have missed it, but was that the only game in which the announcers haven’t mentioned Bragg’s paraphernalia issue? I wonder if Dave had been warned by producers not to bring it up? Bill might have gone FULL Monty in protest!
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@jayballer54 Are you aware who decides what is being on a tv set at any given time. It is not the people in front of the camera. It is the producer of the show. If ESPN had not wanted Walton changing tee shirts to be shown on the screen it would not have shown him doing that.
As mentioned earlier this is the shtick that Walton has been using for the past couple of years. I don’t like it but since I am not a member of the management team at ESPN I have no say in the matter. The only people who do are members of that team.
I have not been all that impressed by your posts but that will have to change now that you have indicated that you know that marijuana can be ingested using a bong. As far as the west coast fans are concerned more of them must be happy enough with his performance than are not happy with it. Otherwise he would not be doing anything on ESPN. That is the way that the system works
If you are as unhappy as you indicate I would suggest that you send a strongly worded letter to someone highly placed at ESPN indicating that unhappiness. If after that Bill Walton is no longer employed by ESPN we will have you to thank.
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Probably did not want to get Walton started on dug paraphernalia…
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@sfbahawk sure appreciate your thoughtfulness, and giving me such an great idea of sending a letter to ESPN. - for that I say thank you lol. - But ummmm - - -maybe not seems like, sounds like that they have recieived hundreds of it thousands of calls voicing their complaints about Billie. but again thank you so much for your concern…
As far as for you being all that impressed by my posts, well please enlighten me as to where I ask for your approval on my posts? - I realize I’m getting older so I went back and double checked - -guess I’m NOT THAT OLD- -cause I looked & looked and NOWHERE did I see where I had ask for ANY APPROVAL, and needless to say I really could give a rats ass whether you change your thoughts or not, but am really tickled that you let me know.
I’ll bet you this - I bet you won’t see Billie boy doing anymore KU games - -regular season anyways, believe me there are many , many , that were as unhappy with Saturdays broadcast but thanks for single me out that’s great thank you. Plus your are 100% right I went to college and majored in dissecting the multiple items that can be used for smoking marijuana only took me 20 yrs to get my masters in it. So since you brought it up let me enlighten you so you can try them all: - -You can smoke it from a bong, or in a blunt, or off a pop bottle, or a joint , a coke can, just about whatever your little pee brain can imagine… - -Now anytime you feel the urge to make statement like you did then just feel free and we can enlighten some more, I’m so glad you stopped by. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
