Monday, October 12, 2009

John's Warble: 9.89 seconds... but verbally enhanced

There's always a controversy, and John's playoff-ending warbles have day-glow pee.

It's hard to compare last night's warble to the hard-working warbles of the regular season, because -- frankly -- anybody can hit a 9-second warble if they're simply going to add words. You could read "Crime and Punishment" and have the warble last a week. That wouldn't be fair.

Still, a win is a win and a warble is a warble. I've added the prelude for posterity sake, but the preliminary is not measured into the warble. There are ways to do this. They are patented. If the Chinese think they can do a better job, they are welcome to try.

4 comments:

Stang said...

If you play the album version of In-A-Gada-Da_Vida, the one with the long and (to put it mildly) unnecessary solos, instead of the musically compact 45 RPM single edit, is it not still In-A-Gada-Da-Vida?

Is not an "enhanced" warble as legitimate as an extended album version?

El Duque's left Nut said...

i'm all for VEW this time of year. he's bringing his A game

OpusOne said...

Perhaps there can be a secondary measurement. The "Raw Warble" (RW) if you will that simply measures the length of the drawn-out "theeeeeeeeeeee." Certainly the pacing of the entire WW needs to be captured, but having the RW data would provide a way to normalize the heart of each WW, regardless of any enhancement of the phrasing.

In 1998, I lived in Los Angeles. There was a sports-talk radio host who hated the Padres, so after the Yanks dispatched of them, he played a mix of WS highlights that was set to "NY, NY" in the background. Of particular note was that they looped the Win-Warble so the "theeeeeeeeeee" didn't end.

It was the greatest thing ever heard by humans.

el duque said...

The continuous "thuuuuh" would seemingly exist only in theory, and yet I've heard it done, as well.

I might just measure the "thuuuuhs" to gauge the greatest warbles in history.