Has Andy lost a syllable ?
21st century sports has quant fever ! (I blame sports gambling) So what about the sports analysts ? Shouldn't their statistics be examined ?
I was listening to the Pack-a-day podcast with Andy Herman and was wondering: How fast does Andy talk ? He does have a lot to say and what he says is interesting. But he does talk fast, for example consider the names: Ballentine and Valentine - both corners for the Packers so same job, very similar names, hard to distinguish at times when delivered at a high speed. Luckily Andy does use first names (he said Carrington Valentine something like 20 times per Youtube) - I didn't hear him say Ballentine at all (or his first name: Corey) so I must have missed something ? Now some analysts like LeRoy Butler often use jersey numbers when referring to players - not sure if that increases or decreases the number the syllables :)
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKS7_OlTyY
Today the podcast was 32.5 minutes long. Analyzing the Youtube transcription yielded this:
And I got this word per minute rate:
So is Andy talking faster than last season ? I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader if they are really interested :) BTW, per Duckduckgo the average rate of speed is more like 125 wpm, so Andy is still dang fast !
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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