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Sal Masakela: Biggest faggot in sports reporting history?
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As i watched last night pipe comp, i couldnt help but notice that sal is the biggest queermo to ever grace my television screen. when he refered to the skiing field as "ski dudes going big" i could handle it. but when he stood there, posing like an SI model with his goggles that have never been used perched upon his head, he said "i used to make fun of skiers in the pipe, i mean i snowboarded for 13 years" really? did you?
EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME
i hate this guy so much. get someone to comment on the comp that doesnt have his haed 4 feet up his as.
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punch him through you tv. it will make you feel good till you realise you have a broken tv and your hand is probably all cut up.
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i liked the part last night when one of the annoucers was saying that if you havent heard of tanner hall, you've had your eyes shut to the world of skiing....i thought that was funny. i thought about trying to keep track of all the ridiculously stupid things the commentators said, but i figured it would be too hard...
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im just frsutrated because i had money on dumont. and i thought he should have won. but whatever
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I dunno, Mike Douglas could give a run for his money. Then again, he's not really a sports reporter. Still, he annoys the hell out of me.
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i love sal masekala you jewbag
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haha the commentators in general were just lame. for example "for those of you watching at home, amplitutude means how high you are going over the edge of the the pipe" which is something almost everyone knows. Also whenever they mis-identify a spin, it bugs the hell out of me.
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how would everyone know that? I was watching it with my pops, i doubt he knew
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why do they call it amplitude, and not height? sounds cooler i guess..
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Sal's a douchbag but whatever, Mike D. is really bad at annoucing as well
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i was watching the superpipe xgames and i decided to make a drinking game out of it, and i had a drink every time after one of the announcers said something stupid.....i had to stop the game early because i wanted to actually watch the second pipe run they were broadcasting....they just said too many retarded things that i couldnt keep up
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FUCKOFF DOUCHEBAG
Unless you know Sal then don't make claims about him. He is attempting to bring action sports to the average joe. He is doing his job by exlpaining the sport to people who do not understand it and he is doing a very good job at that. We comprise 2% of the general population. Most people don't know what the fuck they are watching on TV and he breaks it down for them. Sal has been in and around the action sports scene for longer than half of you ass clowns have been alive. He is a surfer, a skater, and a snowboarder and knows more about those and other action sports that you will ever know. Your unsubstantiated claims and opinions make you look like an uneducated tool. Hang out with the dude for a minute before you write such stupid garbage. Sal even said at the end of the night that "tonight was all about the skiing".
He is wearing goggles for the fucking network sponsors. It is his JOB. Do you think that these announcers pick out their clothing? They don't. If you wanna hate on someone, then hate on Douglas for calling out Hatveit for lack of amplitude (while he was throwing the techiest run of the night) or for his general commentary that is pushing our sport in the wrong direction (ignoring anything stylish in favor of size of the hit).
Some of you kids need a swift kick in the nuts...
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i'm just wondering where you got your 2% figure from, seems likes someones making a judgment they cant back up? Nobodies doubting his knowledge or experience, hes annoying. Period. And whats with everybody on this site using to word tool to make fun of somebody, never heard of it?
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I read that the x-games brings sports that 2% of the US population follow regularly to the masses. That is why it happens twice a year (1 in winter and 1 in summer). It claimed that it would not be nearly as successful if it was on more often because of the lack of interest outside of those 2 weeks.
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That man is completely right above if you don't know them don't hate!! exacly right some of thease kids need a quick hit too the balls!!!!!! ^^^^^
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agreed other than the hater attitude.
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i'm pretty sure that was douglas. haha.
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you're just racist
i'm not racist though
i've got a color tv
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ANY MAN WHO HAS A SPOT ON E! TELEVISION HAS NO TESTICLES. OR DIGNITY. the end.
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watch mtn lab and youll realize hes a funny dude. i respect him.
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Sals been with xgames since almost the beggining and hes been around espn and other extreme sports for a very long time. He knows what hes doing.
You have to realize that the majority of ppl watching the x games dont know as much about skiing as we do. There just there to watch it and be amazed by somone going really big and doing 3 spins with a funky grab.
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Ive gotta say i was'nt sure what to think about Sal's comments last night. I must say...even if he was attempting to give skiing props, he made himself look like a kook when he said "I used to scoff at skiers in the pipe, and Ive been snowboarding for 17 years." This is exactly the bullshit that snowboarders from San Deigo would say years ago. Alot of guys like this that really did'nt grow up in the mountains had no real clue what was going on in the mountains...would try to disrespect skiing. But again He might have been trying to give skiing props, but sort of put his foot in his mouth.
Its nothing amazing that the guy is a surfer, and skater too, so are alot of people who ride snowboards or skis including myself. It just seemed a bit lame to me that a guy boasting that He has been "snowboarding for 17 years" thought that was some major accomplishment that would somehow give him the "cred" to make a comment about skiers in the pipe. Many people including myself who are involved in the industry, or on the hill everyday, after 25 or 30 years in the mountains can't help but "scoff" back at a dude that mentions 17 years doing his thing. Aside from his couple off color comments, he did attempt to give skiing some props, and He seems to be a pretty nice guy.
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Learn how to take a compliment and stop bitching about it
i mean no shit boarders mock skiers but now were showing them up so who gives a shit
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Mike D wasn't that bad, damn people, hes just saying what espn tells him too
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my question is: why is there a black man on snow? that just doesnt make sense
joking
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he said 17 years even. thats a fucking lie if thats all he knows about the sport!
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hahahahahah soooo fuking true hahahahha Sal is the whitest black man in history
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yeah why would they get a black dude to host it, an im not jokking
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because white kids will continue to ski or board no matter who announces the sport on the x-games. but maybe if a black kid sees a black man reporting the sport, he might get into it.
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chill
i dont know this for a fact but i'm pretty sure he is getting paid to talk in that exact manner
wouldn't you dress like a douche and say douchey things if espn was giving you madd skrill to sound x-treme
i thought the exact same thing but i'm sure when he isn't repping espn he is madd chill
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they all need to all shut the fuck up and stop talking so much. sal seems like a nice guy and he tries his best, so i dont really care.
but if everybody associates the x games with sal this kinda sucks
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seriously sal is the man. sooo funny.
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Sal is hilarious, people here need to lighten up and learn to laugh
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The best is watching skiing pipe then snowboarding pipe, and they are both like THAT HIT WAS HUGE, but skiing they are like Thats at about 22 feet there, and i swear today, the announcer said LOOK AT THAT BIG HIT, HES LIKE 11 OR 12 FEET OUT! Fucking sean pettit did 9s that big like 3 years ago.
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yea, that pisses me off. and then when the womens snowboarding is on, they go over 5 feet and the announcers are talking about "oooooo look at that sweet amplitude!!" and shit. god damn it pisses me offffff.
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he probably did it for cheaper than the white guy?
no im just kidding, im not racist...
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im so fucking sick of people telling other people to "hang out" with some star before they make judgements about them. im not going to hang out with douche bag sal masakela, or the vast majority of pro skiers. so dont tell people to hang out with the guy before making judgements. im going to see the guy being a douche bag, and then im going to call him a douche bag. im not going to go hang out with him before i decide to call him a douche bag.
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i love how every xgames there is a thread about how much sal masakela sucks
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Anyone who is saying Mike Douglas is a bad commentator is wrong, and should go read the Cream blog entry with his interview in it for an explanation on why he makes such obvious statements. If you're too lazy to do that, then here's the gist of it:
Mike Douglas is announcing for the average Joe and Jane who have no idea what the hell they're watching, not for us skiers. We don't NEED the commentary to understand what's going on, we know by just looking at it. If he told us "Tanner will be dropping in switch" or "mute grab on that one" it wouldn't help us, because we already know what that is. If some rando was watching, and Mike Douglas said "Tanner will be dropping in switch", they'd be confused. What the hell is switch? What the hell is a mute grab? It has been said many times and I'll say it again: If you don't like the commentary just mute the damn TV and watch it in silence.
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Mike D is the man, butu yeh sals a fag
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He still sucks imo, and he is all about spin to win. Whenever someone tries to do something different (Stefan in the pipe, Tron in Best Trick last year) he just says they need to practice more so that one day they can win. I'm sure he knows full well that Stefan can do more than a 3 in the pipe, and he doesn't even try to explain why he is doing that.
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dude, his goggles are for if he wants to go tubing later on.
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yeah i dont know why everyone hates him. hes a sports commentator doing his job. hes been around forever. hes not the one incorrectly labeling tricks. hes just reading a teleprompter.
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ever hear a man called Tiger Woods?
then again he's kinda Blackanese.
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yeh But tiger woods is half asian, and his Wife is Soo hot id bust a nut in her ass anytime ....
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