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NighthawkVol said:
Was it Eric Cain? I swear that guy has the vocabulary of a 6 year-old. Which is fine, if you don’t speak for a living. I’d be so angry if I paid for advertising and he couldn’t pronounce my company’s name (he doesn’t know the word “aura,” like the average 4th grader, so pronounces it “aurura.”). And butchers the word “derivatives” every day on a sports betting ad, pronouncing it “derurutives.” If you don’t know a word (presumably because it’s polysyllabic), ask somebody. Prepare. Do some homework.

Drives me nuts.
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No. It was the Public Address Announcer at LNS. In general the game day activities are below mid and show little effort. I like Eric Cain and most all of the beat writers. Cain, Wright, McKee, Dixon, Schumpert, etc are all solid and provide really good coverage on the BaseVols.
 
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taylorvol said:
No. It was the Public Address Announcer at LNS. In general the game day activities are below mid and show little effort. I like Eric Cain and most all of the beat writers. Cain, Wright, McKee, Dixon, Schumpert, etc are all solid and provide really good coverage on the BaseVols.
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The presentation has all the soul of an interstate exit applebees.
 
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darsinewman said:
More often than not, when he's there, we lose a game that we really shouldn't lose. Regardless of whether I like the music he plays, being the superstitious baseball fan I am, I'd prefer that he stay away.
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Vitello nor the dugout were fans of Pearl the Sterl. His act just isn’t a fit in baseball IMHO.
 
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taylorvol said:
Vitello nor the dugout were fans of Pearl the Sterl. His act just isn’t a fit in baseball IMHO.
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Not a fit in baseball or football or basketball. Or anything. Maybe a 8th grade dance 20 years ago. I don't know what he has on Danny White but it must be something. Anyway ...... I love going to games at LNS but it is also true the atmosphere is very underwhelming.
 
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South Florida Vol said:
Not a fit in baseball or football or basketball. Or anything. Maybe a 8th grade dance 20 years ago. I don't know what he has on Danny White but it must be something. Anyway ...... I love going to games at LNS but it is also true the atmosphere is very underwhelming.
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A nod to equity.
 
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taylorvol said:
Vitello nor the dugout were fans of Pearl the Sterl. His act just isn’t a fit in baseball IMHO.
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I’m not a fan of Sterl the Pearl for any of our sports. I appreciate the passion he has for Tennessee, but he sounds like what you expect to see on a Hallmark movie TV hype man and he typically has the opposite effect of getting the crowd hype.

I was at College GameDay for the Georgia game this year and when he come on to try and get the crowd hype during a commercial break people basically ignored him. It was kind of embarassing.
 
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Ditto on most of the comments on here concerning PA folks and scoreboard issues. It really makes us come off as not being serious baseball people. The folks right around me just laugh now, and shake our heads. So unprofessional to have all the assets we do, yet make us look like a laughingstock to some of our visiting SEC brethren.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
I’m not a fan of Sterl the Pearl for any of our sports. I appreciate the passion he has for Tennessee, but he sounds like what you expect to see on a Hallmark movie TV hype man and he typically has the opposite effect of getting the crowd hype.

I was at College GameDay for the Georgia game this year and when he come on to try and get the crowd hype during a commercial break people basically ignored him. It was kind of embarassing.
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Sterl the Pearl is played out IMO
 
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cardvolfan said:
Ditto on most of the comments on here concerning PA folks and scoreboard issues. It really makes us come off as not being serious baseball people. The folks right around me just laugh now, and shake our heads. So unprofessional to have all the assets we do, yet make us look like a laughingstock to some of our visiting SEC brethren.
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I haven’t been to the new stadium yet, but my dad is a season ticket holder and he’s made similar comments. Almost unfathomable that we would spend as much money on stadium renovations as we have but cut corners on the presentation. Makes no sense to me.
 
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cardvolfan said:
Ditto on most of the comments on here concerning PA folks and scoreboard issues. It really makes us come off as not being serious baseball people. The folks right around me just laugh now, and shake our heads. So unprofessional to have all the assets we do, yet make us look like a laughingstock to some of our visiting SEC brethren.
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Its tough because it looks like a serious baseball stadium now.

But the operation/presentation side of the house feels Mizzou/Kentucky the last two years.

"Thats another strikeout . . . for the vols" (said with all the passion of wheat toast with margarine), no pitch count, the same wrong player numbers on the screen 10 weeks into the season, the lazy/overdone music. Guy that sat next to me on Friday was floored when the scoreboard showed video packages. He thought it didn't have that capability. He (rightfully) asked "Then where are the replays??"
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Has to be tickets sold and not attendance because those photos sure do show a lot of empty seats for such a nice day.
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On the bright side, they had so many of the free shirts leftover from the students now showing up, they came to some of the orange sections in the 3rd or 4th inning passing out arm fulls of them.

That Student section more than anything is what has to be fixed. I've seen/heard some people explain it away with weather, team performance, and a bunch of other reasons but those aren't it. I know they want more control over the students, but that's what has drained the life out of there more than anything.

On Saturday, bottom of the 8th, G. Wright came up after the leadoff man walked. Tying run. Where the student section should have been going insane and making noise...the noise was 7 or 8 kids meekly chanting Wright's name.

That can't happen. Red lights should be flashing and alarm bells going off to people in the administration. I know it was a huge source of frustration to the baseball side last year and its continued this year.
 
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WallyBalls said:
Its tough because it looks like a serious baseball stadium now.

But the operation/presentation side of the house feels Mizzou/Kentucky the last two years.

"Thats another strikeout . . . for the vols" (said with all the passion of wheat toast with margarine), no pitch count, the same wrong player numbers on the screen 10 weeks into the season, the lazy/overdone music. Guy that sat next to me on Friday was floored when the scoreboard showed video packages. He thought it didn't have that capability. He (rightfully) asked "Then where are the replays??"
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The scoreboard is mid. Even the camera work is terrible. The camera crew at Miss. State got us two replays. You’d never have that angle. The play this weekend where the tag was in question. The camera work was horrible. Blurred. I’m convinced that gets ruled an out otherwise.

They put a LOT of money into a very small section that most people will never see.
 
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