{"id":2097,"date":"2007-12-19T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/19\/college-basketball-gets-a-litt\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T17:03:37","slug":"college-basketball-gets-a-litt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/19\/college-basketball-gets-a-litt\/","title":{"rendered":"College Basketball Gets a Little Quieter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having ranted at great length about the awfulness of Dick Vitale’s caterwauling during games broadcast on ESPN, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that he’s having vocal cord surgery<\/a>. In his own words:<\/p>\n

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The past six weeks have been very emotional for me and for my family as we’ve visited some of the most outstanding throat specialists. Fortunately, I am currently under the guidance of Dr. Daniel Deems in Sarasota, Fla. and he is an outstanding ear, nose and throat specialist. Dr. Deems strongly recommended that I visit Dr. Steven Zeitels, who is recognized as one of the premier throat and voice specialists in the nation.<\/p>\n

Dr. Zeitels serves as the director for the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After an examination, it was determined that I had lesions on my left vocal cord and that they should be surgically removed. Dr. Zeitels said his goal is to have me back sitting at courtside in early February. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While I think he’s long since sunk into self-parody, and he actually detracts from the games that he calls at this point, I do not bear the man any personal ill-will. It’s got to be absolutely maddening for him to be unable to do the job that he so obviously loves doing. I wish him a full and complete recovery.<\/p>\n

But, if I might speak directly to him for a moment: Dick, buddy. Get well soon, but when you get back, please consider, I don’t know, not screaming quite so much. It’ll be better for your voice, and better for my sanity.<\/p>\n

Think about it, won’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having ranted at great length about the awfulness of Dick Vitale’s caterwauling during games broadcast on ESPN, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that he’s having vocal cord surgery. In his own words: The past six weeks have been very emotional for me and for my family as we’ve visited some of the… Continue reading College Basketball Gets a Little Quieter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}