“I’m all for the little guy.” –CBS announcer Jim Nantz, who, in reality, cares nothing for the little guy, as evidenced by the overwhelming sense of major-conference entitlement that suffused his and Billy Packer’s ignorant, dishonest rant against mid-major conferences on national TV Sunday.
Missouri Valley Conference commissioner Doug Elgin is not happy with Nantz and Packer, and with good reason. What first-class idiotic jerks those guys are. (Previous posts here and here; additional discussion here, here, here, here and here.)
Didn’t Jim Nantz do sports in LA for a long time? I seem to recall his being a bit of a tool. That’s not exactly a requirement for the job - though it does sometimes seem like it must be.
How is Jim Nantz a liar for expressing his opinion? You may disagree with him and think he is a tool for expressing his opinion in an arrogant manner, but that hardly makes it a lie.
heh. I gave up on listening to Billy Packer 10 years ago. Why? The 1995 championship game. He spent the whole game raving about how great Arkansas was and how nobody could beat them and their fabulous defense.
During the final minute of the game (after it as obvious that UCLA was going to win) he suddenly starts gushing about UCLA’s players and how great they are. Agreed, what an idiot.
He’s not a liar for his anti-mid-major opinion (though he was very dishonest in his construction of a factual argument to support his face, deliberately omitting inconvenient ifnormation and citing things that he knows full well are irrelevant), but he IS a liar for saying “I’m all for the little guy” when he clearly is NOT for the little guy. It would be sort of like if President Bush said, “I’m all for checks on executive power.”
Actually, the Blatant Lie of the Day was Bush saying there is no civil war in Iraq as 80+ bodies of people killed in sectarian violence turned up in Baghdad. What a lying tool. The war is over. We lost. Mission not Accomplished. Time to pull out. Dumbass.
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March 13th, 2006 at 8:59:22 am
Didn’t Jim Nantz do sports in LA for a long time? I seem to recall his being a bit of a tool. That’s not exactly a requirement for the job - though it does sometimes seem like it must be.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:45:28 pm
How is Jim Nantz a liar for expressing his opinion? You may disagree with him and think he is a tool for expressing his opinion in an arrogant manner, but that hardly makes it a lie.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:51:28 pm
besides, he could have been talking about short people…
March 13th, 2006 at 2:55:00 pm
heh. I gave up on listening to Billy Packer 10 years ago. Why? The 1995 championship game. He spent the whole game raving about how great Arkansas was and how nobody could beat them and their fabulous defense.
During the final minute of the game (after it as obvious that UCLA was going to win) he suddenly starts gushing about UCLA’s players and how great they are. Agreed, what an idiot.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:56:03 pm
oops, that last post was from me.
March 13th, 2006 at 6:30:36 pm
He’s not a liar for his anti-mid-major opinion (though he was very dishonest in his construction of a factual argument to support his face, deliberately omitting inconvenient ifnormation and citing things that he knows full well are irrelevant), but he IS a liar for saying “I’m all for the little guy” when he clearly is NOT for the little guy. It would be sort of like if President Bush said, “I’m all for checks on executive power.”
March 13th, 2006 at 7:17:10 pm
Leave it rest, man.. :)
March 13th, 2006 at 7:17:28 pm
I’m all fer wiretappin’ yer ass now, Loy.
March 14th, 2006 at 10:31:45 am
Actually, the Blatant Lie of the Day was Bush saying there is no civil war in Iraq as 80+ bodies of people killed in sectarian violence turned up in Baghdad. What a lying tool. The war is over. We lost. Mission not Accomplished. Time to pull out. Dumbass.