Don Bradman Cricket 14 General Discussion

Amen, Blocker. Amen.
 
Richie actually did commentary for some games in his time. The only possible way would be to attempt to secure the rights to those after waiting a considerable amount of time for his family to grieve and then contacting them with a respectful request for a tribute. It's so much more raw than Don Bradman and would require a lot of work. I wouldn't say impossible, but a good way up on the difficulty curve.

As to the parody version, I'm pretty sure Billy Birmingham wouldn't want to go there particularly where things are at with Richie and even Tony's reasonably recent passing. Let's say all of those rights were secured. The commentary option would have to be labelled something like 12th man Comedy Commentary and have a disclaimer in the credits stating that in no way do the makers wish to encourage the belief that these are the real life counterparts commentating. I can understand lawyers being nervous about it.

If someone did want a comedic commentary option I'm sure people like Michael Slater, Shane Warne and Nasser Hussain would be somewhat open to that.
 
C A Iversen said:
If someone did want a comedic commentary option I'm sure people like Michael Slater, Shane Warne and Nasser Hussain would be somewhat open to that.
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If I wanted to listen to a bad talkshow for hasbeens that is awkwardly played over the top of the cricket, I'd mute the cricket and put one on the TV. That stuff's not "comedic" it's just plain sad.

I think the best way I've ever heard anyone but Benaud's career was that he was a great commentator, that just happened to be a legendary Australia Captain once upon a time. Listening to him speak, you'd have never known.

Listening to Warne or Slater though, you'd expect that you were listening to the second coming of Bradman or something, which whilst Warne can get away with that kind of thing to an extent, even with him it's seems like a platform for a sad attention grab, and is just an annoying racket over the cricket. I miss the days when TV commentary was actually commentary.
 
Alberts said:
If I wanted to listen to a bad talkshow for hasbeens that is awkwardly played over the top of the cricket, I'd mute the cricket and put one on the TV. That stuff's not "comedic" it's just plain sad.

I think the best way I've ever heard anyone but Benaud's career was that he was a great commentator, that just happened to be a legendary Australia Captain once upon a time. Listening to him speak, you'd have never known.

Listening to Warne or Slater though, you'd expect that you were listening to the second coming of Bradman or something, which whilst Warne can get away with that kind of thing to an extent, even with him it's seems like a platform for a sad attention grab, and is just an annoying racket over the cricket. I miss the days when TV commentary was actually commentary.
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Well, I never said it'd be good comedy. :p Yeah in general I agree about the newer generation of commentators. Not many of them describe the action with great insight and stop talking till they have some more. Most just prattle on whether there's something that needs to be said or not.

Kind of like my posts. :yes
 
C A Iversen said:
Well, I never said it'd be good comedy. :p Yeah in general I agree about the newer generation of commentators. Not many of them describe the action with great insight and stop talking till they have some more. Most just prattle on whether there's something that needs to be said or not.

Kind of like my posts. :yes
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They also break the golden rule of commentary and talk about themselves well more than the acceptable amount, which for the curious is a nice round zero.
 
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