I brought this up in the Postmortem thread. He sounded very down and mopey after the Bruins 2nd goal and just mailed in the rest of the broadcast. Not sure if he was ill or just negged out by the shitty effort the Sabres put forward for the 2nd straight night.

For years, RJ has shown enthusiasm in his play calling even when the team on the ice has been terrible.

I'd bet money that he's just under the weather.

Ive noticed this.. Never heard him sound so down.. But everybody has those days, and Im surprised he doesn't have more of them.. Maybe someone in his family died.. He's not going to tell us something like that, so it could be anything..

RJ is too proffessional and announced for too many crappy Sabres teams to be "bummed" about how they are playing.

RJ is too proffessional and announced for too many crappy Sabres teams to be "bummed" about how they are playing.
Either he got sick, or there is some kind of personal/family dilemma

I guess. He wasn't this close to retirement with those crappy Sabres teams though. All professionalism and class aside, I'd imagine it's the guys dream to call for a Stanley Cup victory at least once in his career and this particular team dropped hard the last couple of games. It's enough to bring anyone as emotionally invested in the team as RJ down a little bit.

He's only human afterall, and the Sabres have been a major part of his life for the past 30+ years or so.

Relax. This is a forum, we're having a discussion. No reason to get upset.

I think that the assumption that RJ was 'bummed' due to the team's poor play is downright moronic, and frankly insulting to the man.

It's disgusting that this 'theory' is even being put forth.

I relax when I want to relax.

Thanks for your concern.