[Mikey]

Good news for you TNA wankers...

Link to a site that stole it from elsewhere.

West has "received a promotion," and Taz is taking his spot at the booth with Tenay.

[ALL CAPS]

See, I never really cared for Taz's announcing (I mean, he wasn't BAD or anything) and I was really starting to like West's new direction. Just another case of TNA going and wrecking something just when it was getting good.

[Byrntrigan]

I watched last night, and the announcing seemed flat, but Taz just started. He wasn't heel, he wasn't face, he just announced. It wouldn't have killed him to have Joe turn on Taz since he was an implied heel, just to give ANY resolution to that storyline more then "I am done training Joe - he won a belt"...

I too was starting to dig West. It wouldn't have killed them to do a 3 man booth for a bit either. They really should have gotten rid of Tenay instead of west.

[BC]

Aug 21, 2009 9:15:24 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

They really should have gotten rid of Tenay instead of west.

This.

[DevSop]

I don't disagree that Tenay has become really bad, but announcing really is about the chemistry between the two guys. I'm willing to give Tenay and Taz some time to truly decide where I stand on them. I agree West had been getting better, but that isn't saying much considering where he was when he started.

[Lucky]

Yeah. Ditching West or Tenay is an easy question. Tenay has skills. Maybe he needs the right partner. Maybe they should be used as a color guy instead of a PBP guy. Maybe he's just too far gone to use them well. But he does have them. West does not. West may have improved the last few months but for my take it was still 90% of the time suck but then he'd nail a good line here or there. Anyone can do that and its not worth holding onto him for that.

My hope with Taz isn't that he's a stellar announcer or anything because I too never really loved him. Its that he and Tenay have better chemistry and he makes Tenay better. That after 7 years of working with an amateur who believed the way to convey emotion was to scream really loud Tenay may feel more comfortable with Taz and the two can find a rhythm that Tenay and West never did. Maybe they won't. But I'm willing to give it a chance. And if I had to put a bullet in one of them I wouldn't have even hesitated on that call. Preferring West over Tenay just feels like the classic "straight man" liability. West has a couple of one liners that makes him seem more valuable, but Tenay's job isn't to deliver one liners and that's why he doesn't have them.

[BC]

I just hate Tenay's shrill, over-excited voice.