Campaign To Stop Recorded Music At Lynah

[marty]

Y'all are the people who wouldn't believe a 10-second video clip online could be seen as "too long."

Times change. Most people get used to the piped-in music as long as recorded-music playback does not step over the music the pep band plays.

First worry about:

• Why the rink lighting is dim and has varied hot spots and dim spots. And is hard to get color fidelity for those shooting stills. I believe the A.D. is aware of at least the lighting concerns.

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• Why the arena audio is hard to discern. The man at the mic has a golden voice; it's not him.

Y'all have heard me mention before how the camera angles are suboptimal for the video broadcasts and I believe we can improve them. At least versus 5 years ago our video guys are tracking the puck.

Casey mentioned that he is advocating for improvements in both the lighting and camera issues - though his first priority is better refrigeration.

As to the audio, wait until you visit the gambling mecca of Schenectady.  Union's architects have designed a space with too narrow seating, poor lines of sight and an unintelligible audio system.  Many will find this refreshing as the homer announcer at Achilles was insufferable.  He was missing at the Cornell game and the noise from his milquetoast replacement couldn't be deciphered. (It did make me nostalgic for the late '70's CTA El announcements.)

[Weder]

[Drifting:] From time to time medical doctors get uppity when academics want to be addressed as Doctor ("Dachtah" if from Long Island) and have to be reminded that the academic honorific came before the medical one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCXJ3yC65o

[Trotsky]

No true PhD ever insists on being referred to as "Doctor."  It's tacky.  That's an affection for the people whose companies buy them mail order degrees from the Kennedy School of Public Administration.

My favorite story about this is my wife's ancient emeritus history faculty advisor walking into the office she shared in grad school with a newly minted PhD adjunct professor.  He looked at the guy's degree on the wall and said, "well, I assumed."     He took it down that night.  Lesson learned.