Talk:Around the Horn

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Changed the fact that winners dont get 40 seconds. That might have happened a few times but Adande got 20 seconds today.

Recommendation to add to guest panelist list: Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe has been on their AT LEAST once, though I can not find a link to prove this, I know I have seen him on there.


Recommendations to change Michael A. Smith's link to since it now links to the guy who spat in Jane Fonda's face?

Does anyone else think this show is rigged?

The showdown is often rigged in the interests of time. I've heard Tony say "Good point, but I need a sweep because we're out of time..." Sympleko (Συμπλεκω) 16:26, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Disambguation

I can think of other instances of Around the Horn:

  • The baseball term: going from third to second to first as in a 5-4-3 double play (on which the name of th show is no doubt based)
  • The navigational term: going from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean around Cape Horn (on which the baseball term is no doubt based)

Neither of these has an article right now, but isn't a DA page warranted? Sympleko (Συμπλεκω) 17:00, 10 August 2005 (UTC)








[edit] Please help the Around the Horn fan club.

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[edit] Mariotti is really the worst

The article should mention how Mariotti is really the lousiest panelist because all he does is rant and his attempt at humor is so bad, he is not as good as my mother. Highly cynical of Chicago sports teams, needlessly, including Da highly respected Bears. What kind of a freak would say Phil Knight was more responsible for Nike's growth than Michael Jordan? The fact that Jay is from Pittsburgh SAYS IT ALL! -Amit, die-hard Bears fan

That would be an opinion.

One not shared by anyone who knows that Nike existed before Michael Jordan and did fairly well. Nevertheless, Mariotti does "play the Michael Jeffrey Jordan card" so much that he chooses to ignore that Wilton Norman Chamberlain was a better basketball player. The show does seem to be rigged in Reverend Bill Plaschke's favor sometimes, and complaints of it being rigged in favor of the Boston panelists (Ryan, Holley, MacMullan and now Smith) once seemed to be valid. But now it seems to be rigged in favor of a "balance of power" between Mariotti and Farmer Woody. They've been within a couple of wins of each other since roughly mid-2005. Coincidence? You be the judge. -- Pacholeknbnj

[edit] Old Format

Does anyone remember when this show first started that it had a much different format. Every panelist stayed on until the very end and then they all got face time. I don't quite remember exactly how it worked because quite frankly the show was awful with that format and I almost never watched it.

Yes I remember it.


The old format went something like this: Mutes were worth -3 (or was it -5?), and Max gave many more points for a topic (5-8'ish), but muted people more often which often resulted in massively negative scroes, usually for Woody. The rounds were also called different names, although I don't recall what they were. People weren't kicked off, but at the end of the game the top 3 people got face time, one second for each point they had amassed (as well as a medal). The fourth place person would be introduced as getting face time and would be promptly muted when they started to speak.

Overall I was a big fan of the old format and never have truly liked the new one.

I also remember people asking the voice over the loud speaker??? to be added points for various reasons. Also I think they sometimes changed the amount of face time for time reasons.--Skroha 22:00, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Basebeall reference

Isn't "Around the Horn" a baseball reference of some sort? Specifically, after a strikeout or groundout, the ball is passed around the infielders until it gets back to the pitcher, and this was called passing it "around the horn." Or am I shockingly mistaken? --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 22:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering why it was called this, and is it a reference to Cape Horn ("round the horn" being a common expression in sailing)? — Johan the Ghost seance 00:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All Time Wins

Is it possible for the all time wins list to be updated? If it's possible to be updated now, I will try my best to update it daily. AWBricker 16:34, 11 April 2006 (CT)

[edit] Showdown

Does anyone know whether the panelist have preplanned which sides they will be on during the showdown?--Skroha 22:04, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

I think this happens a lot, but I doubt it's an every-topic-during-every-Showdown type of thing. For example, there was one topic a couple of days ago (it was Monday, but I can't remember who was in the Showdown) where both panelists agreed. I absolutely do think the preplanning does occur rather frequently, since there are few times when the panelists actually do agree, and because there are some topics in which I simply can't imagine either panelist taking a particular side. -- Kicking222 16:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jay Mariotti article

I thought this was the best place to ask this question. What happened to the Jay Mariotti article. I know he isn't exactly the most liked person around, but did something happen that warranted the deletion of his article? ErikNY 19:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A cancelled win.

I remember one incident (it couldn't have been too long ago if i remember it) where Reali muted somebody during their face time and gave the other panelist the win instead for talking about NASCAR. Does anybody else recall this, and it should be added if I'm not insane. --TopGear 23:52, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, it was definitely Tim Cowlishaw talking about NASCAR, and I believe Reali gave the win to Bill Plaschke. You could probably find more information about it in the ATH Yahoo group that is listed on the article page; just search for some key words. Bmitchelf 05:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Running gags its own page now

Like PTI, the Running Gags was getting massive, so it deserves its own page -- it can be found here: Running gags on Around the Horn. JAF1970 05:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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