re: John Ferguson

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I don't get the hate for hawthorne at all..i know LSU fans like to bitch about everything, but he's really not that bad of an announcer

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Well, he does make a lot of verbal gaffes and and seems to have some vision issues, depth perception in baseball seemingly his biggest.

But that doesn't bother me. It kind of makes me laugh but doesn't infuriate me.

Football is mostly either on t.v. or I'm there these days, so I rarerly hear him in that venue. And I don't follow baseball nearly as much as I do football and hoops so I hear him only when I'm in my car during a baseball game.

I probably listen to his basketball calls more than any other sport and that's probably his worst of the 3 IMHO. Pretty tough to listen when it was he and Ford bickering with each other for two hours.

He's more deferrent to Blanton, but it's still tough becuase Blanton's just learning the ropes of the business and struggling a bit himself.