Al Jazeera Breaks In On Mitchell Report
Thursday, December 13, 2007
If anyone knows about how audio is patched in to these things please let me know because this completely caught me off guard.
You really can't be any clearer than that George. Also, can someone tell me if this was only an ESPN thing, or did all media outlets hear this?
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I was listening to 1380 in St. Louis, and I heard it, too.
umm that could actually be something serious...could terrorists be that smart to put a message in a live american report
Nice Spinal Tap moment, MLB.
I was hoping you'd get this. It kind of had me expecting Borat to pop out somewhere. Was definitely weird, though.
I think it's Russian.. I have no basis for that, but I think it is!
Was this the beginning of this season's 24???
Yeah, heard it on the espnradio.com stream. Tirico apologized for it, but I didnt hear if he said what it was.
I would guess that it was a live translation and it did sound Russian to me too.
sneaky fucking russians.
Heard it on the WFAN webcast.
It was Clemens' new "trainer" some Khazikstani dude. Roughly translated, it means "You want the injection now? RIGHT NOW?? Are you fucking nuts? Let me guess, you're not by a TV or radio at the moment..."
Those were funny!
In all seriousness, I do hope we eventually find out the source of the audio. My best guess is that it was either an international feed or someone checking in on a conference call. In any event, those comments should not have aired.
In addition, if you watched the press conference on SNY or NESN today, please let me know if you also heard the audio glitch. This would determine whether or not the problem was confined to ESPN or whether it came from the pool feed provided by the local media in New York City. SNY and NESN were the only other sports networks that televised it live.
Those were funny!
In all seriousness, I do hope we eventually find out the source of the audio. My best guess is that it was either an international feed or someone checking in on a conference call. In any event, those comments should not have aired.
In addition, if you watched the press conference on SNY or NESN today, please let me know if you also heard the audio glitch. This would determine whether or not the problem was confined to ESPN or whether it came from the pool feed provided by the local media in New York City. SNY and NESN were the only other sports networks that televised it live.
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I heard this when i was watching, and i rewound to make sure it was espn and not my tv or something. Very funny!
NESN had the same audio glitch go over the air. Comcast Sportsnet also picked up the SNY feed and the glitch also went over the air.
Bin-Laden has DishNet!
I happened to switch to WCBS-AM 880 in New York and they had the same glitch happen there. They cut into it a few seconds after it started, apologized, and likely waited until it cleared and resumed the audio feed.
The MLB.com feed had it too... it was hilarious