Would You Rather Listen to Jim Hughson and Harry Neale or John Shorthouse and Tom Larscheid?
By Richard Eriksson on April 13, 2007 - 6:06pm
Just a few seconds before Game 2 between the Dallas Stars and the Vancouver Canucks, and during the game on Wednesday, I tried a little experiment. As much as I like Jim Hughson's competent play-by-play, it's a lot more fun to get swept up by John Shorthouse and Tom Larscheid. More so than Hughson, Shorty and Larscheid are homers, in that they're fans who have an obvious bias towards the Canucks. You can hear it best after the Canucks score, with Larscheid exclaiming, especially when it's a tie-breaking goal. So on Wednesday I tried watching the game with the volume down and TEAM 1040 turned up, but couldn't go through with it, because the radio was a split second ahead of the play as seen on TV. I didn't want to find out from Shorty that the home team scored before it "actually" happened on my screen. I'm going to try listening on the web: maybe there will be enough of a lag that the online stream will line up with what I see.
So which do you prefer? Jim Hughson or John Shorthouse? The correct answer is usually "what I grew up with", and in my case it's Jim Robson, especially when games were "simulcast" on CKNW and BCTV.
