Welcome to Michigan Hockeycast 8.13, where it's finally stopped snowing enough,

and we've got to take a break from shoveling to record a podcast.

Yeah. All right, Alex, I know it was BTN minus, but what's the first thing we have to do?

I don't know.

We have to rate the broadcast, right?

Okay.

Because this was like an actual broadcast that was picked up by BTN minus.

Yep.

Did you have any notes on the two guys in the booth? Well, the one we know, right? He does BTN broadcast. The play-by-play guy? No, the color guy, I think. The color guy? Well, they were different color guys, right? There might have been. The guy on Saturday was like the cheerleader man, who just kept, like, yelling things that the gophers need to do and getting distressed when they'd turn it over and miss their dump-ins and that kind of thing.

And then the play-by-play guy somehow, between Friday and Saturday, forgot how to pronounce

Will Horcroft and added a random R.

That stuff baffles me because...

It does.

Not just the bad pronunciation, but like I've been in many broadcasts over the years. And that's, like, such an easy thing to fix. Like, is... There's no one in the production of this. There's no one... Like, they don't have a spotter. They don't have anybody that comes up after, like, a short amount of time. It's like, hey, dude, you need to fix this. They're the only two. We troubleshot that stuff all the time. We were doing free student radio at the college level. Like, that was one of the first things you could fix is like, oh, a guy's saying something wrong. We got to fix that. This was on Fox 9. I assume that's a local station in Minneapolis or Minnesota somewhere. Very weird.

Maybe it's just those two guys and they're the only people in the company.

They set up their whole broadcast.

They had to do the whole thing.

They ran the cameras while they're doing play by play.

That was the thing that I just, I just could not.

You know, I guess that does happen.

Like sometimes you get people up there who, you know, misnames or they try really hard.

That happens in football a lot of times.

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