The boys are back on the ice, well some of them, but it's a good season when hockey season comes around. It's the preseason, meh, the Penguins beat the Blue Jackets 5-4 in OT, meh, but the real story is the new interim PA Announcer Ryan Mill's first day on the job.
It was a little rough for everyone in the building, being our first night back, but Ryan did an excellent job. Sure there were a few bumps along the way, I will take the blame on a few of them as in telling him the goal was scored at 15:54 in OT, when OT is a 5 minute period, not a 20 minute period, so it should have read 0:44. It happens, he's new, we're all picking up the slack that John Barbaro did on his own, we'll get it.
I'm a little annoyed, ticked off it you will, at some of the fans posts on messageboards right after the game, with their unwillingness to consider that this man is BRAND new to the job.
Here's the link to follow along: http://www.letsgopens.com/scripts/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39703
My favorite poster so far, Username: DrBoni.
In reference to the Penguins announcing when the Penguins are on a Powerplay, "the penguins are now on the powerball powerplay" - it is a sponsored read.
DrBoni: Attn: Pittsburgh Penguins/Ryan Mill
We are not stupid fans. Please do not allow the announcement of the power play to become a trend at the Igloo. Thank you, Boni
Without going too much further and going off on this guy, I should consider:
DrBoni: First game, but it clearly showcases his style. I'm not faulting him for some of the blunders. (Though being someone who DOES have experience doing this, that rhythm can easily be worked out before taking the mic.)
With the power play, I'm sure that a lot of it is a matter within the organization. I'm just really disheartened that it's found it's way to Pittsburgh.
For being someone who does have experience doing this, why didn't you send in your resume like the rest of the applicants and get the job?
Without saying something that will ultimately bite me in the ass, because as we all know, when you voice your opinion on the internet and you are affiliated in direct correlation with the subject matter at hand, it will bit you in the ass, I will say this.
People who say things like this, after a person's first day on the job, are the type of people who are exactly what they are, nothing more than a FAN, with a VOICE, crying to be heard, because they think they know better than anyone else.
It just drives me nuts.
This same guy also mentions style :
Style man, it's the style. It's not that he's not Barbaro, it's that he's on the other end of the spectrum...
Does everyone have to fit the bill, 100% of the way you've always had it? For one, Ryan did exactly to the Nth degree, what he was asked to do tonite. No one, can take that away from him.
There's no lie that mistakes were made, for reasons that are not Ryan's fault. I would say if there were 10 mistakes made tonight, the only one that was Ryan's fault were maybe 2 or 3. So he forgot to say the time on a goal at the appropriate time, but he go it in there and he will understand the importance of getting it right, as he DOES. It's his first time!
I just never get it how people will jump on someone else, when they aren't in their position, not giving them a chance to even EARN their position.
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