Game Day: Suns (41-29) @ Spurs (15-55), Sat 3/23/24

[Superbone]

[Superbone]

They DID want IT. Just like us.

[TOO]

They DID want IT. Just like us.

Who is us?

[Superbone]

They DID want IT. Just like us.

Who is us?

Oh, I forgot. Debbie Downer. Whaaa, whaaa, whaaa, whaaaaaaaa...

[Superbone]

I forgot to mention. Sean Elliott is the worst! Over and over he said that we traveled but not their team. He also didn't like that one of their guys was wearing Book 1s. They were the darker gray ones. He said they looked like hospital shoes. The guy is such a homer. It was painful to listen to.

[TOO]

I forgot to mention. Sean Elliott is the worst! Over and over he said that we traveled but not their team. He also didn't like that one of their guys was wearing Book 1s. They were the darker gray ones. He said they looked like hospital shoes. The guy is such a homer. It was painful to listen to.

He's pretty awful. I sometimes think that the Suns pbp guys are a little homerish, but then I hear SA, BOS, Minny, SAC, GS and realize they aren't that bad lol.

[Nodack]

Eddie is always giving the apposing team props when they do something good. Maybe on play calls they can be a little homerish. A lot of these guys are good friends and have played for multiple teams and consider it a basketball family with a few relatives that don’t get along.

[The Bobster]

I think the litmus test for homerism or not is how they bitch and moan about how a game is called and if they complain about the other team doing something that their own team does. Old-time Homer Hall of Fame members Johnny Most, Ken Harrelson, Tommy Heinsohn and Harry Caray were the worst for this. Al McCoy had a little homer in him, but he didn't go overboard. Not like Tom Leander does when we're subjected to him.

I was fortunate enough to grow up out here listening to Tom Dillon (Sun Devils), Al McCoy (Suns) and Vin Scully (Dodgers). Scully was the gold standard of course, but Dillon was also fantastic. And Al, well, Al *is* the Suns to many of us fans.

Of the current Suns announcers I probably like Eddie Johnson the most - he certainly has the most insight and he's generally very fair in crediting the other team, and when he's being a homer, he comes out and admits it.

But in the end, announcers are there to sell the product. Homerism is just one method that some announcers use, some more apply iot more liberally than others.