Last week I listened to an episode of Travis Yost and Dimitri Filipovic’s Hockey PDOcast. One small side conversation popped into my head as I took my seat in the press loge of Amway Arena. "What kind of coverage do you want from your play-by-play announcers?" Yost asked Filipovic. "Do you want it to be totally homer, or 60-40, or 80-20?" "I think I want 60-40," Filipovic responded.
As I booted up my laptop, the voice of Amway, Paco Lopez, thundered out on the loudspeaker. He is unparalleled in his ability to throw shade with a vocal tone, and perhaps because he’s not a play-by-play announcer but the arena announcer, his coverage is not 60-40 nor 80-20.