Penguin's Announcer Woes

Ever Since I can remember I loved watching the Penguins on tv, but now, FSN is continuously making that more difficult. They are showing how much big business is more important than the love of the game itself. The firing of Mike Lange from the tv side of broadcasts would rank a close second in all time worst days in Penguins history (behind 1993 game 7 vs the Islanders). We don't know for sure whether he was fired over a cheaper replacement or because of his sometimes newsworthy personal life. The replacement turned out to be nothing but cheap. We went from the days of great one liners and such original content that the game almost became a story in itself to days of useless banter, tasteless jokes, and a bulk of content that was stolen from his "mentor". Maybe we were spoiled by hall-of-fame quality announcing all of these years. The puck never officially dropped until we heard the energetic vocal chords of Lange announcing that it was a hockey night in some small but proud city. Since his move to radio his performance still sparkles. He paints such vivid pictures with his vocal swagger that it nearly matches the quality of any 1080p monitor on the market. For those of u that are lucky enough to own a radio delay devise to match up your tv and radio broadcast, I am sure that you welcome the sight of the mute button. For the rest of us the tv broadcasts are incomplete, a bastardization of its former self. For now I continue to watch the game I love. They have us right where they want us. They have the product we love and a cheap second-rate way of delivering it to us.