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Found June 16, 2012 on Awful Announcing: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Chris Berman,  Trey Wingo,  Peyton Manning,  Joe Buck,  Donovan McNabb,  Rick Reilly,  Joe Montana
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Can't believe Scott Van Pelt re-upped with ESPN to play second fiddle to Chris Berman at the US Open. — RoneFace (@RoneFace) June 14, 2012   No contractual agreement exists between ESPN & the Masters preventing Chris Berman from announcing there. There is an "understanding." — James Andrew Miller (@ESPNBook) June 15, 2012 , Yesterday, Matt put together a great piece exploring people's agony over Chris Berman headlining ESPN's US Open coverage. While I'd like to say the outcry was mild in passion and size and the selected tweets were just some vocal detractors, the truth is that Berman is deserving of such harsh rhetoric. This isn't your run of the mill 60/40 type argument (presumably 60% wanting Berman replaced by Scott Van Pelt). I don't even think it's the dreaded 70/30 split among sports fans, which is a terrible 40% discrepancy. It's more like 90/10 against Berman, although I honestly think it could be worse than that. ...
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