{"id":2022,"date":"2010-06-17T07:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T11:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2010-06-16T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:07:26","slug":"sports-bling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/06\/sports-bling.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Bling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesportshernia.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/05\/18\/jon_barry_jeff_van_gundy_mike_bre_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Headsets\" src=\"http:\/\/thesportshernia.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/2007\/05\/18\/jon_barry_jeff_van_gundy_mike_bre_2.jpg\" alt=\"Headsets\" width=\"352\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>As <a href=\"http:\/\/kimborlea.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/it-must-be-love.html\">Kim pointed out recently<\/a>, she&#8217;s turned me into a temporary sports fan of sorts.\u00a0 With Game 7 of the NBA finals on tonight, I think I should be all set until next year.\u00a0 And then I&#8217;ll only be resurrected if the Celtics make the playoffs.\u00a0 But before I depart my fleeting fandom, I have a question that&#8217;s been gnawing at me.\u00a0 Okay, maybe not &#8220;gnawing&#8221; exactly, but it does cross my mind now and again while watching the games.<\/p>\n<p>Why do sportscasters wear those big honkin&#8217; headsets?\u00a0 And they not only wear them during the game, but while on the set for the halftime show.\u00a0 Is this some sort of fashion statement?\u00a0 I mean sure, the crowds are loud and they need to be able to get noise cancellation as well as a clear audio signal from the control booth.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontlosethemusic.co.nz\/ourproducts\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Earwig\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dontlosethemusic.co.nz\/images\/Ears%20002.jpg\" alt=\"Earwig\" width=\"94\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>But don&#8217;t musicians face a similar problem?\u00a0 And they get by with those cute little earwigs.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, they need a good microphone to capture their snappy commentary while still allowing them to jump out of their seats, but again, didn&#8217;t Garth Brooks solve that problem 20 years ago?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrymusicislove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/garth-brooks-countrymusicislove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Garth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.countrymusicislove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/garth-brooks-countrymusicislove.jpg\" alt=\"Garth\" width=\"198\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The football coaches and sportscasters wear even bigger units, but I always assumed that was in part just to keep their ears warm while playing in Green Bay.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think the Staples Center has that issue.<\/p>\n<p>If someone might enlighten me, then I can go back to ignoring ESPN in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kim pointed out recently, she&#8217;s turned me into a temporary sports fan of sorts.\u00a0 With Game 7 of the<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/06\/sports-bling.html\" title=\"Read Sports Bling\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliceoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}