ducky23 said:
Honest question
How many of you actually listen to starkey?
I mean, you're either at the game or watching on tv right?
I know some people try to listen while at the game, but I can't figure out how people do that with the lag
For home games, I will schedule my life to be flexible enough so that I can attend the game even if I don't know the game time until 6-12 days in advance. I won't do that for road games (except the ones I'm going to attend). Sometimes, I'm in the car for a decent chunk of time during a road game, and so I turn on the radio and listen to Starkey. I heard a significant part of 2 road games last year in the car. Now that every game is on TV, I almost never have to listen to Joe for an entire game, although I heard the entire 2009 game at Minnesota on satellite radio while in a rental car on an east coast trip. And without fail, during those times I listen, Starkey makes me want to pull my hair out.
Last year in the car, my wife to me after a play in the game: "Do you have any idea what just happened?"
Me: "No, but Starkey's doing play-by-play, so I don't really expect to know what's going on."
Wife: "Then why do you bother to even put the game on?"
Me: "Well, I can kinda-sorta know the basics of what is going on, and at least I can be up to date on the score. It would be better if you just pulled out your phone, went to a gametracker on the Internet and did the play-by-play for me while I drive, you want to do that?"
Wife: "No, I'll just let us suffer with Starkey."
If I'm in a car but not driving, I will usually pull out the phone and watch/listen to the telecast rather than deal with Joe. But if I'm stuck driving, then I'll bit the bullet and listen to Joe.