Perd
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Post by Perd on Aug 10, 2022 21:31:28 GMT -5
In fairness, everything about him had always suggested future curmudgeon.
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Aug 10, 2022 21:36:43 GMT -5
Little I can say that hasn't already been said. I respect the hell out of JR, he's one of the all-time best, but the weird cloud-yelling at this stage of his career is actively dragging down a product I otherwise love.
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ASYLUMHAUSEN
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Aug 10, 2022 21:56:10 GMT -5
Next week, If this grumpiness trend continues, I half expect JR to change his tune on Tudors and start putting over Suzy’s. Real heel shit. (WV heads understand) I'd say he'd need to be punished by sending him to a ramp festival, but I think it's too late in the season for those. Though while we're talking about WV-specific silliness, petition to somehow get JR to bring up the high school football team out of Poca? Could always send him to roadkill cook off in Marlinton this fall… And I may be from Clay County (and we’ve had some bad blood in the last with Poca basketball) but I’d absolutely mark for a Poca Dots reference from JR
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Aug 10, 2022 21:58:58 GMT -5
I'd say he'd need to be punished by sending him to a ramp festival, but I think it's too late in the season for those. Though while we're talking about WV-specific silliness, petition to somehow get JR to bring up the high school football team out of Poca? Get JR to start talking about Camden Park so that people who don't know better think he plays Fallout 76. i need this just for the Camden Parks Updates Twitter content 😂 twitter.com/UpdatesCamden
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Post by Hypnosis on Aug 10, 2022 22:00:50 GMT -5
*during a Dante Martin/Marq Quen match*
JR:"These kids go too fast. Enough is enough, dammit!"
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 10, 2022 22:08:23 GMT -5
In fairness, everything about him had always suggested future curmudgeon. Future?
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Post by Starshine on Aug 10, 2022 22:10:20 GMT -5
I don't even know if this is a hot take anymore but: Tony Schiavone > JR.
AEW's outgrown the guy, they don't need him. Give him his papers so he can complain at home instead.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Aug 10, 2022 22:17:29 GMT -5
JR has been doing, save for health breaks, weekly commentary for just short of three years on Dynamite. In that time, he hasn't really changed up any of his flaws, except for the fact he doesn't shout out a Klansman on live TV now, and he usually doesn't make sleazy comments about Asian women anymore. But there's still so much that's so bad with his deliveries. When his enthusiasm isn't there, it's noticeable. He has these weird outbursts sometimes. He'll get ornery and complain about stuff. He'll lose track of a match and you can hear Excalibur or Taz having to explain it to him and get him back on track again when his one job is to pay attention and call the match. He's not good at this anymore.
But even if we put that aside, what's his value add? How many great calls has he made? How many times has the old JR shone through to elevate a match? He doesn't seem worth the effort and the drag because he's not bringing enough along with him.
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Post by floundertime on Aug 10, 2022 22:22:41 GMT -5
I tuned in during the middle of the first hour and JR was on and they had a 4 man booth. Any reason for that tonight?
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Post by robferatu on Aug 10, 2022 22:24:36 GMT -5
I would assume that part of the reason for his general sour disposition is that his health isn’t the best, but also as much as Jim Ross is the voice of wrestling and my childhood, I just don’t think he’s the voice of this current era of wrestling or my adulthood.
I’m pretty much stating what everyone else already has, but his salty demeanor does make it hard to enjoy the product at times, and even though he’s a well of knowledge when it comes to professional wrestling, I just feel like at this point AEW already has a litany of commentators and color analysts that have surpassed him.
At this point, he’s starting to remind of a wrestler that stuck around in the ring a few years too long, and begins to tarnish their legacy.
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Aug 10, 2022 23:32:28 GMT -5
I have a lot of sympathy and admiration for JR, but it's time to move on from him. He regularly wanders off into tangents that have nothing to do with anything, and really is doing more harm than good.
You can't keep someone in a position like this just because you feel sorry for them
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Post by Cyno on Aug 11, 2022 0:13:18 GMT -5
Get JR to start talking about Camden Park so that people who don't know better think he plays Fallout 76. i need this just for the Camden Parks Updates Twitter content 😂 twitter.com/UpdatesCamdenSo the park looking how it does is just its natural state and not due to a nuclear apocalypse?
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Post by King Devitt on Aug 11, 2022 1:44:26 GMT -5
I'd say he'd need to be punished by sending him to a ramp festival, but I think it's too late in the season for those. Though while we're talking about WV-specific silliness, petition to somehow get JR to bring up the high school football team out of Poca? Get JR to start talking about Camden Park so that people who don't know better think he plays Fallout 76. Me: So JR, I finished the Season 9 scoreboard about a week ago, how far are you along? JR: Scoreboard, we don't have scoreboards in AEW. We have a ranking system bah gawd. What's with you kids and this damned........ *I tune JR out from here on*
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lucas_lee
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Post by lucas_lee on Aug 11, 2022 2:13:26 GMT -5
To me at this point JR is a lesser racist and cantankerous tennis racket man
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Post by Kalmia on Aug 11, 2022 4:53:58 GMT -5
JR complaining about the interim title was especially egregious last night. It's one thing for Mox and Regal to dismiss it as that suits their characters but the commentators shouldn't be critiquing management decisions like that on air.
I think what bothers me the most about JR sometimes isn't always what he says, but how it impacts the other commentators. There's just this awkward second where you can tell that Excalibur and Taz are processing what he's said and considering whether they should respond or ignore it. It interrupts the flow of the commentary.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Aug 11, 2022 4:54:23 GMT -5
JR has been doing, save for health breaks, weekly commentary for just short of three years on Dynamite. In that time, he hasn't really changed up any of his flaws, except for the fact he doesn't shout out a Klansman on live TV now, and he usually doesn't make sleazy comments about Asian women anymore. But there's still so much that's so bad with his deliveries. When his enthusiasm isn't there, it's noticeable. He has these weird outbursts sometimes. He'll get ornery and complain about stuff. He'll lose track of a match and you can hear Excalibur or Taz having to explain it to him and get him back on track again. And he does not always handle it well when they do.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Aug 11, 2022 4:57:33 GMT -5
In fairness, everything about him had always suggested future curmudgeon. Future? Bro was crochetey in 1998 Attitude. It was part of his gimmick.
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Post by clifford on Aug 11, 2022 5:32:49 GMT -5
At least he had the decency not to suck up tv time by getting his own entrance with that ass drumline college song halfway through the show this week
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Post by kingoftheindies on Aug 11, 2022 6:52:33 GMT -5
Maybe it's just me but I feel like often times anymore Taz,Tony, Excalibur all just kind of ignore JR and that makes it easier for me to as well.
But when I do hear him it's kind of clear that there are things that were just outside his bubble that he doesn't understand (big one being the Lucha Mask)
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Post by Andy Martin on Aug 11, 2022 7:02:11 GMT -5
I don't even know if this is a hot take anymore but: Tony Schiavone > JR. AEW's outgrown the guy, they don't need him. Give him his papers so he can complain at home instead. Just give me Tony and Taz as the main commentary team.
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