Is Barton Lynch the best announcer ever? Yes!
Are you watching professional surfing right now? Yes? Of course. Me too. Or as Matt Warshaw just texted me, “It’s the only single thing we can all talk about… Well. This and cocaine.”
He’s right.
I’m supposed to be doing cocaine but jut got done watching Adrian Buchan lose to Jeremy Flores even though he dropped a claim at the end of a 6 point something ride. I’ve always been on the edge re. claims. Like, sometimes I think they’re fine and sometimes I think they are totally lame. Watching Ace claim a 6 point something made me think when aimed at the judges they are the same exact thing as a soccer flop. The worst thing on earth!
But enough about soccer. Let’s talk about Barton Lynch! He is on the mic for a few heats and I know I’ve heard him before, calling heats, but maybe with Ross Williams leaving us, maybe with…. I don’t know. All I know is I WANT MY BARTON LYNCH!
His theatrical delivery paired with a real knowledge paired with a legendary history paired with a non-annoying Australian accent. Tell me now. Does any voice even come close to Barton Lynch?
The only thing I wish is that Ron Dawg and Sizzurp Tizzurp would stop calling him BL. He is a grown man. His name is Barton Lynch. And he is coming for both your motherfucking “jobs.”
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Barton’s beach throws are the best. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
He’s like the Paul McCartney of surf comentary. I wish once, just once, he would say “koo koo kahoo” at the end of a sentence.
Looking forward to “Cocaine and Surfing” and the inevitable follow ups “Manitol and Surfing” and “Amyl Nitrate and Kneeboarding”.
it’s a helluva a drug
What? Christianity or Cointreau?
Is it just me or does anyone else thinks it’s odd that some of the WSL announcing team openly wears clothing from what I assume are paid relationships with certain brands? Barton/Hurley. Pete/Quik, etc.
Pete is has long been sponsored by Quik… no secret there.
Best call from Barton was shutting down Turpel went something like this
Turpel – hey Barton tell us “back in the day” about your heat with luke egan at blah blah – do you reminisce about that when you catch up?
Barton – no Joey we basically live in the day!!
Was best shut down ever
Fuck Turpel off and get barton snips occy and few others
..and he was so polite in doing so, Joe never even felt a thing.
the real issue is that it is not called soccer, it is called FOOTBALL. goddamn trumpians.
He’s awesome. Anyone catch his injury list on the broadcast? Hip replacement, heart attack, knee, etc…wtf?!
He’s great in short bursts Barton, they had him on for a few heat in Bells last year and he can waffle on a bit, the sideline throw to is perfect for him. Anyone else noticed one heat they cut to the lounge and old Pete was laid waaaaaay back spread eagled haha, real relaxed!
Listening to Peter Mel makes me sad.
On another note, this Benny Hill music that cranks up way loud during the advertisements is going to get fired.
He is kinda doing the subdued thing, like he is a super cool loose dude by night, but a cautiously mannered maths teacher by day.
And then it turns out he’s fucking that kinda hot English teacher (Rosy) that you dreamt you had a chance with. We’re the students in this fantasy, right?
Where is Rosy? Do you think you could get her to do the teacher/librarian thing?
I never thought it would happen to me as the foxy blonde librarian looked up from behind the desk, smiled while simultaneously taking off her glasses and letting loose her hair from the tight bun at the nape of her neck.
Don’t be too hard on Turpentine and Raw Doggin’ Ronnie. They’re just trying to get a couple of wild card entries
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I used to have a Sarges Surfing Scrapbook (remember those!) vid and BL was the “host”. He was classic then and he is even more classic now.
In said video some of the golden content he came up with was to barge into Jake Pattersons room post one night stand and interview the girl. Her name was Pam evidently so he held up a Playboy with Pam Anderson on the cover and shouted “NOT THIS PAM!”
Gold I tells ya.
upload the clip
That VHS is long gone.
Complete Fuc$&!ken legend!
a lot like Sarges career
please do not write ‘in said’. shudder.
Sick name too. Barton. Baaaaaarton.