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Let's talk about obnoxious commentators

While this might be worthy of just talking within the game diaries I wanted to bring up todays commentary from the Pirates broadcast booth.  Extra Innings chose to offer the Pittsburgh play by play team today (my guess is the game was on WGN).  Now I didn't watch the entire game but I caught a lot of it.  I found them to be quite offensive towards the Cubs, Wrigley Field, and the fans.

I've listened to a lot of away commentators and I believe other than the incident with The Reds this year (or was it last year???) I've never heard such obnoxiousness out of the booth.

First they ripped on Wrigley Field itself.  They called our scoreboard pathetic.  I for think our scoreboard is what makes Wrigley unique.  Then at the end of the game they ripped on "Go Cubs Go".  Call it annoying and why the fans have to sing it so loud and apologized to everyone in Pittsburgh if they have to hear it.  I'm sure if The Pirates organization bothered to build a team that can win at home as much as The Cubs they'd have a song too!  I guess the making fun of Go Cubs Go really offended me due to the history into who wrote the song and the pride we as Cubs fans have towards being able to sing it. 

So I was wondering if anyone else felt this way watching the game today?  And I guess this also goes to show that we can really appreciate the work from Len and Bob as I've never heard them go as low as the Pirates did today.

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