Mark Jeanneret

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

http://www.portlandpirates.com/newsarticle.asp?Id=1811

[X. Benedict]

http://www.portlandpirates.com/newsarticle.asp?Id=1811

 

Top Shelf - Where Mama hides the Lobster Rolls!

[nobody]

Congrats to Mark! Working his way up to the big leagues. Incentive for his father to keep working a few more years.

[wildcat48]

http://mainehockeyjournal.com/2009/08/12/jeanneret-named-new-play-by-play-announcer-for-pirates/

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Anyone have a link to his play-by-play? I haven't heard what he sounds like yet.

[X. Benedict]

Anyone have a link to his play-by-play? I haven't heard what he sounds like yet.

 

 

this?

[nobody]

This one gives some non-goal situations.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzamnu7guA

 

 

 

 

Needs a few more years of seasoning in my opinion.

[ROC Sabres]

This one gives some non-goal situations.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzamnu7guA

 

 

 

 

Needs a few more years of seasoning in my opinion.

He does, but you hear shades of RJ listening to it. Congrats to him.

[Ted's Hot Dogs]

this kid needs to be himself... He really is trying to hard to sound like RJ. I really dont like him

[Stoner]

this kid needs to be himself... He really is trying to hard to sound like RJ. I really dont like him

 

He's 41 and has been doing play by play for a while. I think at this point what you hear is what you get.

[wildcat48]

Jeanneret distinct flair is what Portland needs

Those who have heard the 36-year old call games for the Otters, understands that he brings a distinct flair in the play-by-play booth. There isn’t a middle ground with Jeanneret. You either love him or hate him, but nobody can dispute his passion for the game.

 

Link>>>>

[That Aud Smell]

He's 41 and has been doing play by play for a while. I think at this point what you hear is what you get.

i don't care for him, based on what i heard. i'd rather the team just go in an entirely different direction. rj is inimitable; i don't want the team to retain someone based on the fact that he will, at best, remind people of a legendary announcer and, at worst, make people cringe at what a poor imitation/homage he is.

[X. Benedict]

i don't care for him, based on what i heard. i'd rather the team just go in an entirely different direction. rj is inimitable; i don't want the team to retain someone based on the fact that he will, at best, remind people of a legendary announcer and, at worst, make people cringe at what a poor imitation/homage he is.

 

To be fair, he probably is doing the best he can with an OHL production team.

Goal calls are one thing...I'm not sure if I can really tell from those clips how he does

between ordinary face-offs.

[Stoner]

To be fair, he probably is doing the best he can with an OHL production team.

Goal calls are one thing...I'm not sure if I can really tell from those clips how he does

between ordinary face-offs.

 

Doesn't really matter if he has two tin cans and is yelling into a megaphone, does it?

 

He's really tough to listen to.

[That Aud Smell]

To be fair, he probably is doing the best he can with an OHL production team.

Goal calls are one thing...I'm not sure if I can really tell from those clips how he does

between ordinary face-offs.

that is fair. the son's goal call, though, just comes off as a bad riff of of the goal calls that his dad developed toward the autumn and then on into the winter of his career.

 

the issue of when rj's "goal" calls started sounding like a rapture-influenced demonstration of lung capacity has been debated here before. listening to "roll the highlight film," i think it may have really started in the late 80s, early 90s. i also think that the following played a role: the introduction of the arena horns for goals, the simulcasting of the radio and tee-vee calls, the team's evolving desire to "brand" an increased entertainment value of its broadcasts.

 

point being: rj came to that goal call after years of calling the game in an excitable but less over the top way. his son just sounds like he's aping his dad, and he doesn't pull it off especially well.

[X. Benedict]

 

 

point being: rj came to that goal call after years of calling the game in an excitable but less over the top way. his son just sounds like he's aping his dad, and he doesn't pull it off especially well.

IMO..

 

if anything...the TV simulcast really toned RJ down. The old radio broadcasts were often an entertaining fiction and forced RJ to call stuff that was actually happening. Used to love bringing the transistor radio to the Aud to enjoy the contrast.

[That Aud Smell]

the TV simulcast really toned RJ down. The old radio broadcasts were often an entertaining fiction and forced RJ to call stuff that was actually happening. Used to love bringing the transistor radio to the Aud to enjoy the contrast.

interesting.

 

i think i was making my point imprecisely. while i'm a little too young to have a clear memory of rj's radio calls (i often fell asleep to them, but don't have a clear memory of the style), i would agree with the notion that his radio broadcasts were more colorful and imaginative. my sense is that he started to become a bit more of a caricature of his organically-developed radio persona once he became the voice and face (!!) of the team's radio and tv broadcasts.

[X. Benedict]

interesting.

 

i think i was making my point imprecisely. while i'm a little too young to have a clear memory of rj's radio calls (i often fell asleep to them, but don't have a clear memory of the style), i would agree with the notion that his radio broadcasts were more colorful and imaginative. my sense is that he started to become a bit more of a caricature of his organically-developed radio persona once he became the voice and face (!!) of the team's radio and tv broadcasts.

 

 

 

I love RJ....but he could carry a dull period by himself.

TV guys these days will normally just talk about anything else.

 

Gotta love the old radio training.

[North Buffalo]

I love RJ....but he could carry a dull period by himself.

TV guys these days will normally just talk about anything else.

 

Gotta love the old radio training.

 

Between he, Ted Darling and Paul Weiland the 70s and early 80s were something to acoustically behold during a Sabres game. The games on TV were in stark to the radio call itself. Often, I turned off the sound and still do to just listen. I agree RJ could make any boring period interesting.

[Stoner]

that is fair. the son's goal call, though, just comes off as a bad riff of of the goal calls that his dad developed toward the autumn and then on into the winter of his career.

 

the issue of when rj's "goal" calls started sounding like a rapture-influenced demonstration of lung capacity has been debated here before. listening to "roll the highlight film," i think it may have really started in the late 80s, early 90s. i also think that the following played a role: the introduction of the arena horns for goals, the simulcasting of the radio and tee-vee calls, the team's evolving desire to "brand" an increased entertainment value of its broadcasts.

 

point being: rj came to that goal call after years of calling the game in an excitable but less over the top way. his son just sounds like he's aping his dad, and he doesn't pull it off especially well.

 

I think you've pretty much nailed it. If Mark's voice just reminded us of his dad, that would be understandable. Can't do much about genetics. Even if his style was in the same neighborhood, OK. Hockey announcers tend to be frenetic. But the fact he uses the long, drawn-out goal call is a big problem for him.

 

It's been my working theory that the horn forced Rick to start calling goals this way. I don't think he thought there was any way he could talk over that horn when it was introduced at the Aud. It blew even his "scooooooore" out of the water. I was so bugged by it after a few years, I wrote the station about it, back when people actually wrote letters. Pete Weber replied that the audio engineers were trying to fix the problem.

 

Eventually they solved the problem. Notice on the May Day call, the horn is more in the background. But for some reason the idea of drawing it out, at home anyway, appealed to him. Maybe he wanted the horn and crowd noise to be the audio star for a few seconds. As you say, maybe going to TV sealed the deal.

 

The problem is, it takes away the spontaneity that made his goal calls so good early in his career. Every once in a while he drops the long "scoooooore," and it's so much better. He did it for awhile last season, and I noted it on this board. Then he reverted to form. On the road he is much less likely to do it. Look how good, or listen how good, the Pominville series-winner in Ottawa was. And Rene Robert off the boards in the corner.

 

I just dread hearing a Stanley Cup winning goal at home. It would ruin the moment, at least for me.

[Stoner]

I love RJ....but he could carry a dull period by himself.

TV guys these days will normally just talk about anything else.

 

Gotta love the old radio training.

 

Agree that Rick is a colorful character, but sometimes I think this aspect of his style is focused on too much. The vast majority of any broadcast, naturally, is what you previously referred to as boring stuff between faceoffs (unless that second faceoff is at center after a goal!). I think Rick plays it pretty straight, generally. He's calm, and he's telling us what's going on.

 

I think an interesting moment in his career came when the Sabres asked him to go on TV. I remember reading that he was told to basically do a radio call on TV. Whether that's what the Sabres wanted, or what Rick insisted on doing, I don't know. I appreciate so much the fact that he actually calls the game on TV.

 

I don't remember it, but does anyone remember Rick doing games on cable TV in the 70s?

[Assquatch]

 

I just dread hearing a Stanley Cup winning goal at home. It would ruin the moment, at least for me.

Sorry for the drive-by snip job but... Wow.

[That Aud Smell]

I just dread hearing a Stanley Cup winning goal at home. It would ruin the moment, at least for me.

nothing will ruin that moment for any of us.

 

in any event, i don't think rj will be calling the team's games by the time that comes to pass.

[Stoner]

nothing will ruin that moment for any of us.

 

in any event, i don't think rj will be calling the team's games by the time that comes to pass.

 

Why not? He's not THAT old.

 

I'm telling ya, if he goes into that ridiculous scooooooooooooore routine when Thomas Vanek goes around the world and beats 52-year-old Dominik Hasek on a breakaway to win the Stanley Cup in overtime... I'm turning off the TV.

[That Aud Smell]

I'm telling ya, if he goes into that ridiculous scooooooooooooore routine when Thomas Vanek goes around the world and beats 52-year-old Dominik Hasek on a breakaway to win the Stanley Cup in overtime...

that made me laugh out loud.