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Rose Garden PA Guy: Mark Mason

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#1 ·
I swear, if I have to listen to that dude over-enunciating all of our staters' names one more game, it will be one game too many.

"DAY-mon STOUDAMIRE"

"DARE-ee-us MY-ulls"

I'm just glad "DAY-ull DAY-vis" isn't around to suffer through that verbal meat-ginder anymore.

Someone tell that dude we've figured out how to pronounce our players' names already.

PBF
 
#2 ·
ProudBFan said:
I swear, if I have to listen to that dude over-enunciating all of our staters' names one more game, it will be one game too many.

"DAY-mon STOUDAMIRE"

"DARE-ee-us MY-ulls"

I'm just glad "DAY-ull DAY-vis" isn't around to suffer through that verbal meat-ginder anymore.

Someone tell that dude we've figured out how to pronounce our players' names already.

PBF
Aparently he hasn't...


Joe El Pryzbilllllllaaaaa
 
#3 ·
Would it be that bad if he had to say something like........

Jooooooooooo JOHNnnnnnnnnnnnnn SON?

Are we sinking so low that were picking on the PA guy now? Personally I can't stand that one towel boy, he needs a hair cut and it is really upsetting me!!!!! :biggrin:
 
#5 ·
HOWIE said:
Are we sinking so low that were picking on the PA guy now?
Not really. MM's verbal evisceration of our players' names has ALWAYS irritated me. Like fingernails on a chalk-board.

We Blazers fans aren't happy unless we're complaining...

...I just wanted to complain about something different for a change.

PBF
 
#6 ·
ProudBFan said:
Not really. MM's verbal evisceration of our players' names has ALWAYS irritated me. Like fingernails on a chalk-board.

We Blazers fans aren't happy unless we're complaining...

...I just wanted to complain about something different for a change.

PBF
Then by all means.....carry on my good man, carry on. How about the price of parking, that is very upsetting and they don't even wash your car for you while your at the game!!!!!!
 
#7 ·
Have you guys heard the Memphis announcer? Now that's terribly annoying.

Earrrrrrrrrrl Waaht-sunnn!

Everything he says has to come out sounding like a growl from the back of his throat.
 
#14 ·
I like our guy.
 
#15 ·
Schilly said:
IIRC they hired Mase, due to the fact that the old A guy was so drab and they were hoping a more energetic PA guy would get the crowd more excited....Well they still sit on their hands.
they had let the old guy go, and he went onto become the beavers PA guy. I don't remember his name, but he battled cancer, and is doing much better now.

BTW, if you dislike Mark Masons style, email him. It's not hard to find his email addy.

markanddave@1190kex.com
 
#17 ·
QRICH that is the frickin' coolest avatar ever. Dave Chapelle rocks.

I agree with PBF, though. Mason has to go. Some of his staples "Jo-ELL Prz-BYL-Luh" and how he says sort of matter-of-factly "from Biggie" after a Damon assist are absolutely horrendous. And I swear I vomit a little bile every time I hear the guy say, "Alright everyone it's time for the Foooooooooooooord Blimp Fly. Commander Holcolm's overhead looking for the loudest fans to receive a $2 coupon to Pizza Hut. So come one fans, make a little noise."

Blech.

But I guess every PA announcer has his little annoying things. The guy in Detroit is on crack.

-Pop
 
#19 ·
I think Mark is a great announcer. He's also a really nice guy. I don't think any of the other announcers or broadcasters managed to break away to come say hello to us at the most recent Blazer Bash. Mark did, although I am maybe the only one who said much to him while he was up there. You might not be aware that he hosts an internet cat forum and we were talking cats. :)

I haven't heard a radio Blazer broadcast for several years, but I always liked the way he introduced Sabonis in Lithuanian. How many other NBA announcers take the time to learn a few lines in a relatively obscure language to personalize the intro of their team's international player(s)??? Maybe some others do, but I am not aware of any.

BTW.......I recently mentioned to Mark about Zygimantas Sabonis playing in that junior tourney in Spain. I told him he might be needing that Lith intro in a few years and not to get too rusty on it. JEGA!! :)
 
#20 ·
they had let the old guy go, and he went onto become the beavers PA guy. I don't remember his name, but he battled cancer, and is doing much better now.
Mike Stone. I personally love the guy, still can't figure out why they dropped him. His sarcastic announcement of a bad call kills me every time. Can't wait to hear him welcoming me and 43,000 of my closest friends to the new Reser Stadium in September.

"And that's ANOTHER, Beaver, FIRST DOWN!" :biggrin:
 
#21 ·
RipCity9 said:
Mike Stone. I personally love the guy, still can't figure out why they dropped him. His sarcastic announcement of a bad call kills me every time. Can't wait to hear him welcoming me and 43,000 of my closest friends to the new Reser Stadium in September.

"And that's ANOTHER, Beaver, FIRST DOWN!" :biggrin:

iirc, he lost all his teeth due to the after affects of his chemo-therapy. But he got new choppers. I think he had to re-learn how to speak too.
 
#23 ·
Mark's a real pro, he knows his job description and gives 100% every night.
:djparty:

Not his fault he's playing to lifeless crowd of dis-interested deadbeats who can't spare a little personal energy to contribute to a good time.
:sleep:

Think of him as the Ringmaster at the circus.

A circus with no lions, clumsy acrobats and lazy clowns.
:frenchy: :dogpile: :clown:
 
#25 ·
MAS RipCity said:
Mark is good, I just wish he would switch up a few names. He's still better then half of the other guys out there. I did like the Bulls announcer, and thier music they played during their intors back in the Jordan days.
ah, alan parsons project...
 
#26 ·
I thought he was OK the few times I've been in Portland.
PBF, try the Warriors PA guy. EVERY TIME anyone on the Warriors is shooting free throws, the idiot says "Soandso at the line, ssssssssssssssssshooting teu!" That's the closest I can come in writing to his giving a long hiss for shooting and then two in a very ooo-ey fashion.
I've heard that at every game I've been to in Oakland, every pair of Warrior free throws, since moving to California in 1990. Talk about getting old!!!!!