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Raftery Is No Gus Johnson, But He'll Do

by Chris Littmann • Mar 28, 2008 10:03 AM EDT

By Chris Mottram

Biggest downside of living in North Carolina: They refuse to switch from the UNC game to a closer contest, even when UNC is up 20 FREAKING POINTS with four minutes left. (Actually, the biggest downside of N.C. is no 7-11s. I mean, seriously, how am I to live without Slurpees? What am I supposed to mix my vodka with?)

So, needless to say, I missed the vast majority of last night's WVU-Xavier game. Luckily, Brian Powell put together a highlight video of Bill Raftery's brightest moments:



"Ecstasy!"

Ah, but what Brian didn't include in that video was the one Raftery call I actually witnessed: His "big time onions!" line when Joe Alexander hit an and-one at the end of regulation (1:15 mark):

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Holy crap…. This sucks. Alot. How did the Yankoos (Switch the vowel, hehe:D) convince such a good guy like Johnny-Boy Damon to go to the bowels of the MLB?? He should have TOTTALY moved to T.O… That would have been the smart thing to do.

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