{"id":392,"date":"2017-02-25T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=392"},"modified":"2017-02-25T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T21:58:29","slug":"beauty-is-in-the-ear-of-the-beholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2017\/02\/25\/beauty-is-in-the-ear-of-the-beholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll take Play by Play for $200 Alex……”I don’t know but I know it when i hear it”….Ding!…”What did Bob Crawford<\/a> respond when asked what makes a good call?<\/p>\n

Is it the vocabulary?…Is it the the voice?…Is it the intensity of the call?….<\/p>\n

It’s probably all those things but if you’ve watched sports for more than a minute and a half you have a favorite announcer, probably a least favorite announcer and certainly a memorable call…<\/p>\n

Crawford, voice of the Hartford Wolf Pack joined Springfield Thunderbirds’\u00a0Ryan Smith<\/a> at the most recent Boston University sports journalism seminar, one a veteran of more than thirty years of A-H-L hockey, the other in his first year with the newly formed T-birds…<\/p>\n

So here’s a question for you all to answer ; Does the play make the call or does the call make the play?<\/p>\n

The Stanford band<\/a> makes the list of memorable calls by accident, you could say…Former Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier<\/a> probably would rather NOT be on the list….And would you ever believe that a shot at the “don’t clap\/genteel”\u00a0Masters<\/a> could be considered?…”Oh, wow!”……<\/p>\n

I’d put Russ Hodges<\/a>, Vin Scully<\/a> and Brent Musberger<\/a> up there too…Oh yeah, and then there’s Mookie<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Hodges’ call and that of Dave O”Brien<\/a> on Davd Ortiz happened on radio….does that make a difference?<\/p>\n

The great thing about sports is that you never know what you’re going to see when you go to\/watch\/listen to a game…Everyone is truly different…”Some of the greatest calls that we ever hear, said Smith, are sort of off the cuff and the ones in the heat of the moment and the excitement and sheer enthusiasm and adrenaline of the moment.”…<\/p>\n

What’s yours?<\/p>\n

Here’s one i wouldn’t mind seeing repeated some time in May<\/a>…I believe in miracles!…<\/p>\n

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I’ll take Play by Play for $200 Alex……”I don’t know but I know it when i hear it”….Ding!…”What did Bob Crawford respond when asked what makes a good call? Is it the vocabulary?…Is it the the voice?…Is it the intensity of the call?…. It’s probably all those things but if you’ve watched sports for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}