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  1. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    I finished my current set of Swiss hockey playoff assignments tonight by calling an empty net goal...scored by Geneve-Servette goaltender Robert Mayer. I had just watched a YouTube video of every single goal scored by goalies in NHL history a couple of weeks ago after Linus Ullmark scored for...
  2. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    My first Swiss playoff game was tonight, Game 4 of the Quarterfinal series between #1 overall seed Geneve-Servette and #10 Lugano (which had to defeat #7 seed Fribourg-Gotteron in the Preliminary Round of the playoffs). You might be amused to note that in smaller countries where inter-city...
  3. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    Thank you! By the way, it cracks me up to have found a highlights video with my call of the Maccabi-Baskonia game the other night on Maccabi's YouTube channel that features nothing but Maccabi buckets. There's also this "condensed game" video (13 minutes long) with my call of the game...
  4. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR-w04kkrK8 I'm officially a EuroLeague commentator now. So that's nice! I started with a pretty good game, too, with Maccabi Tel Aviv and Baskonia starting the night part of a four-way tie for 6th place (with a total of eight playoff spots on the line)...
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    Juhann Begarin pick #45

    FWIW, I commentated on Paris Basketball's EuroCup game against Slask Wroclaw this evening, and Begarin was prominently involved (#23 for the team in white): View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IblDZ1SLI8 You can see the physical tools he has - but man, he was SUPER rough out there. The...
  6. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    I'm down in London again this week for three basketball games: two EuroCup games (Paris v Slask Wroclaw and Gran Canaria v Turk Telekom) today and tomorrow, and my first EuroLeague game (Maccabi Tel Aviv v Baskonia) on Thursday. The latter is particularly exciting: it's #1 in the Israeli league...
  7. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    Thanks for the feedback. (I'm no longer doing a full diary of every game I call, but I have the sense that there's generally enough interest in my work to keep everyone informed at the macro level about what I've been doing, and maybe share some of the more interesting tidbits that come up.) Do...
  8. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    Check out this play - at the 1:03 mark of the below highlights video - by Henry Ellison of Joventut Badalona in my commentary game this evening vs. Mincedelice JL Bourg-en-Bresse: View: https://youtu.be/rt-Xl54YkU4?t=63 Ellenson was a former first-round draft pick of Detroit in 2016 (after a...
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    2023 World Baseball Classic

    Believe me, I've thought about the WBC on multiple occasions over the last couple of months and wish I could have gotten involved in it somehow.
  10. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    After my Swiss hockey game last night, I've now been hired to call up to 11 Swiss playoff games, including the entirety of the best-of-7 finals series. I've opened myself up to clashes with potential EuroCup and EuroLeague assignments - and in fact I've already backed out of a one-off EuroLeague...
  11. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    I mean...I know the latter game finished 5-2 to Real after Liverpool led 2-0, but my ZSC-Geneva game tonight was at least as crazy. It featured two breakaway goals, one of the filthiest assists you'll ever see (a perfectly intentional backheeled pass across the crease with the guy's skate to set...
  12. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    I mean, which of these games would you REALLY rather watch???
  13. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    Here's a totally random one for you: I've been approached by my old colleagues in Vienna - where my commentary journey properly started with the CHL in 2014 - and asked if I can do some Swiss hockey league commentary. So instead of the CHL Final on Saturday being my final hockey game of the...
  14. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    I mean, I'm not exactly in Lapland - I'll be at the northern tip of the Baltic Sea, as shown below. I suspect it'll be cold, and probably somewhat charming but not particularly scenic. And it'll take me three flights to get home, via Stockholm and Frankfurt, so that's not exactly ideal. (My wife...
  15. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    Not that I'm active on SoSH at the moment, but I thought a few of you might be interested to hear that I've recently become part of the EuroCup basketball commentary team (world feed), operating out of IMG's studio complex near Heathrow Airport. I've called four games so far, with another one to...
  16. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    FWIW, I'm officially bringing this thread to a close, as I'm stepping away from SoSH for the foreseeable future. To be honest, even if I weren't, I feel like this journal has become rather repetitive and somewhat narcissistic - do people really want to read about yet another hockey or football...
  17. Conigliaro's Potential

    Diary of a commentator

    Crickets in here, I guess...still: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6xyHR3t734 An utterly meaningless but quite fun game to call tonight, with Jukurit defeating Sparta Prague 6-3. Sparta led 1-0 and 2-1, but the game turned in the second period when Nikita Krivokrasov - a wonderful name...
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    CFB 2022 Week 7: Are we sure we want Tennessee to be good again?

    Incidentally, I think I may also be in love with SEC Roll Call videos, in addition to SEC Shorts: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV6ojss08UU
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    CFB 2022 Week 7: Are we sure we want Tennessee to be good again?

    To counter the question in the thread title: are we sure Tennessee fans are ready for Tennessee to be good again? I mean... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGsjq1viMy0
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    Braves Locking Up Their Future Signing Another Homegrown Star

    Perhaps a silly or stupid observation, but isn't it also easier to build a roster around young players on long-term contracts in a lower-pressure media environment? If everyone on the current Braves roster was on, say, the Yankees, the hype train would be out of control - all successes and...
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