@%!#$ Bob Roll

<< I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my %#$%
nerves. Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm
tempted to mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul, so I don't. Mike >>

Roll's improved a lot as a commentator over the last couple of years. His enthusiasm is refreshing.
I think Phil Liggett's the one that's starting to sound a little tired.

So far the best part of the coverage has been Bob Roll's commercials. Love the Gino Bartali
impersonation.

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<< I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my %#$%
nerves. Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm
tempted to mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul, so

I

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don't. Mike >>

Roll's improved a lot as a commentator over the last couple of years. His enthusiasm is
refreshing. I think Phil Liggett's the one that's starting

to

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sound a little tired.

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I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my
%#$% nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm tempted to
mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul, so I don't.

Mike

I'll take Bob over Adrian Karstens any day.

Ya gotta love how he says "Toordee Frants."

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Bob Roll rocks. He talks like Tyler rides: his performance is a little dodgy, he is understated, but
he can deliver the goods. And he is funny.

His Faulknerian delivery does go on a bit too long, sometimes.

Morgan

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nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens

his

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mouth, I'm tempted to mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul,

so I

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don't.

Mike

I'll take Bob over Adrian Karstens any day.

Got me there. At least Bob is a cyclist.

Mike

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I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my
%#$% nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm tempted to
mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul, so I don't.

Mike

Quiet down, fool.

When you put it that way,

"AMEN!"

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I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my %#$%
nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens

his

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mouth, I'm tempted to mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul,

so I

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don't.

Mike

I'll take Bob over Adrian Karstens any day.

Mike S. said:

I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my
%#$% nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm tempted to
mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul, so I don't.

i don't know why, but bob roll reminds me of a big happy dog (some kind of retriever or herding
dog?), so it's hard for me to feel @%!#$ at his run-on sentences.

heather

heather halvorson said:

i don't know why, but bob roll reminds me of a big happy dog

btw, i have 3 dogs, so that was meant as a good thing. h

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i don't know why, but bob roll reminds me of a big happy dog

btw, i have 3 dogs, so that was meant as a good thing. h

Ya just gotta love Bob Roll and Heather!

Hawke

Todd Kuzma said:

Ya gotta love how he says "Toordee Frants."

He's good in NYPD Blue.

Steve

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i don't know why, but bob roll reminds me of a big happy dog (some kind of retriever or herding
dog?), so it's hard for me to feel @%!#$ at his run-on sentences.

yeah -- the dog analogy makes sense, though it might be because I expect to see him drooling or
sniffing Phil's ass. And he isn't quite so annoying during this Giro so far as he has been in the
past -- maybe they are keeping a tight leash on him.

And I don't think they are run on sentences -- more like half-completed thoughts. Just when you
think he is about to say something interesting he shifts to another topic, and babbles on and on,
sprinkling in worn-out cliches, and ends up saying nothing at all.

I think they ought to dump him and get a cute skirt in there so it won't be such a sausage fest. I
nominate Heather for the job.

NS

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I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my
%#$% nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm tempted to
mute the TV. I don't want to miss Phil and Paul, so I don't.

Mike

Roll is da man, Liggett is great but Bob keeps it real!

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i don't know why, but bob roll reminds me of a big happy dog (some kind of retriever or herding
dog?), so it's hard for me to feel @%!#$ at his run-on sentences.

yeah -- the dog analogy makes sense, though it might be because I expect to see him drooling or
sniffing Phil's ass. And he isn't quite so annoying during this Giro so far as he has been in the
past -- maybe they are keeping a tight leash on him.

And I don't think they are run on sentences -- more like half-completed thoughts. Just when you
think he is about to say something interesting he shifts to another topic, and babbles on and on,
sprinkling in worn-out cliches, and ends up saying nothing at all.

I think they ought to dump him and get a cute skirt in there so it won't be such a sausage fest. I
nominate Heather for the job.

I remember years ago when the only US coverage was a few minutes once a week on CBS Sports Sunday.
Bob is fine, Phil is great, Paul is great. This is such an embarassment of riches compared to
years gone by!

Morgan Fletcher said:

Bob Roll rocks. He talks like Tyler rides: his performance is a little dodgy, he is understated,
but he can deliver the goods. And he is funny.

His Faulknerian delivery does go on a bit too long, sometimes.

Morgan

You're being over analytical. Just seeing Bob Roll sitting at the summer sportzone desk with that
silly grin on his face puts me in a good mood.

Bret

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Morgan Fletcher said:

Bob Roll rocks. He talks like Tyler rides: his performance is a little dodgy, he is understated,
but he can deliver the goods. And he is funny.

His Faulknerian delivery does go on a bit too long, sometimes.

Morgan

You're being over analytical. Just seeing Bob Roll sitting at the summer sportzone desk with that
silly grin on his face puts me in a good mood.

Bret

I'm watching Summer Sports Zone right now. Bob's a lot better when he doesn't have to comment
"live." I suspect that's where the problem lies: he gets exited to be able to talk on the TV live,
and talks onandonandonand...

Mike

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I really wish he'd learn how to speak! All those run-on sentences are really getting on my
%#$% nerves.

Yeah, I know he knows a lot about racing, etc. but every time he opens his mouth, I'm tempted to
mute the TV.

If you gagged him, the newspaper headline would read "Roll, tied."

Nev Shea said:

I think they ought to dump him and get a cute skirt in there so it won't be such a sausage fest. I
nominate Heather for the job.

no way! i've been mistaken for a boy in rl and for a small child over

not for me.

isn't there sometimes a woman with a nice voice commenting on some of the races oln shows?

h