Thursday, February 7, 2013
If you're an Arizona basketball fan, you already know that the 'Cats ended up beating the Stanford Cardinal 73-66 last night at the McKale Center—and if you were watching the game on television, you likely noted the commentary of ESPN color analyst and basketball great Bill Walton.
Being a web producer/social media person/guy with a Facebook account, I couldn't escape the mass of Facebook and Twitter messages that rained down, pouring disdain for ESPN color analyst and basketball great Bill Walton, who apparently was either completely absurd last night:
Bill Walton to Dave Pasch: "You're like John Wooden, I'm your worst nightmare."
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 7, 2013
Or completely annoying:
@espn What does Bill Walton have against Arizona. As a fan it was hard to watch with all his Arizona bashing and negative talk.
— Bryon Thornberry (@bryonthor) February 7, 2013
In fact, UA fans were pretty unhappy in general with Walton, it seems:
Hey @billwalton you sure you're all right to be announcing this game right now? #ArizonaBasketball
— Steven Andrade (@SpittaAndrade) February 7, 2013
Well, we've decided to get down to the bottom of this by contacting Walton on Twitter:
Hey @billwalton, a lot of @uofa fans felt you weren't too kind to the Wildcats on commentary last night against Stanford. Your thoughts?
— tucsonweekly (@tucsonweekly) February 7, 2013
If the big man throws dowwwwwn a response, we'll let you know. But below the jump, we've got a few other thoughts on Walton's commentary last night—as well as an odd resemblance a 'Cats fan noticed.
"Arizona wins!! The Saguaro Cacti and Sabino Canyon will be dancing tonight! Thank you Tucson for a great night of basketball!" Bill Walton
— Will Robertson (@robertson_will) February 7, 2013
Well, that was one of my favorite Bill Walton sign offs of all time.. He chose the "act like you're reading a Robert Frost poem" card.
— Alec Thompson (@iv_thompson) February 7, 2013
I love how ESPN made a point of highlighting that Bill Walton was trending on Twitter. He’s not trending for the reasons you want, guys.
— Todd Bealmear (@ToddBealmear) February 7, 2013
Bill Walton has given multiple shoutouts to Linda Ronstadt tonight.Seriously.
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 7, 2013
I honestly think Dave Pasch spends most of his time sitting next to Bill Walton wondering where it all went wrong.
— Kim O'Hara (@KimOHaraTFG) February 7, 2013
And, lest we forget, an Arizona fan dropped this spectacular image on Facebook:
I tell ya, I'm not sure which one is Bill Walton, and which one is the Snow Miser.
Tags: bill walton , arizona wildcats , college basketball , stanford , announcing woes , snow miser , twitter