Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby NTP66 » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:06 am

The backstory on Lange's phrases is what does it for me, almost as much as me simply enjoying them in general.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby meow » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:07 am

I agree with shmenguin. Lange is a got dang legend, but he can't call a good game anymore.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby mikey » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:32 am

Bad take call-outs should be resolved for things that are so unreasonable that they can't be real...not liking Mike Lange, while semi-blasphemous in the Pittsburgh area, is still reasonable. He says a bunch of goof ball irrelevant **** after a goal and he's lost his ability to really call a good game...yeah, he's a legend, but it's like Doc...I like Doc, but it's reasonable to say that you don't like him...

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby meow » Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:50 am

ah, ah, ah...I didn't say I don't like Mike Lange. I love Mike Lange.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby shmenguin » Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:22 am

I agree with shmenguin. Lange is a got dang legend, but he can't call a good game anymore.
His last few years on TV were painful. And that was what...15+ years ago? Can't imagine what he's like now, though I did hear that he improved significantly once he left TV - at first, anyways.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby RonnieFranchise » Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:22 pm

This city allowed Myron Cope to be incoherent on a microphone for decades too long. Lange ain't going anywhere.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby nocera » Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:06 am

I agree with shmenguin. Lange is a got dang legend, but he can't call a good game anymore.
His last few years on TV were painful. And that was what...15+ years ago? Can't imagine what he's like now, though I did hear that he improved significantly once he left TV - at first, anyways.
To be fair, the product on ice was also extremely painful.

Plus, he was wasted.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby MR25 » Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:12 am

They played some of his calls at the arena last night.

Haven't listened to him much this year but he sounds terrible. Like, voice cracking and cutting in and out because he doesn't have the lung capacity to talk like that, terrible.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:15 am

Plus he uses a really old mic/headset combo that makes him sound like he's broadcasting from a low wattage station out in Fayette county. :lol:

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby nocera » Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:19 am

Plus he has this frail frame and wears suit jackets with gigantic shoulder pads. I don't know what that contributes to, I just wanted to point out that he's looking like a Little Rascal pretending to be an adult.

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Mike Lange plans to call significantly fewer away games

Postby Troy Loney » Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:32 am

This city allowed Myron Cope to be incoherent on a microphone for decades too long. Lange ain't going anywhere.
Hillgrove will be completely blind before he's taken off the broadcasts.

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