Made a point to sit down and watch some Raw last night, and after a while, it finally hit me what was missing from when I used to watch it regularly, and why it felt so different from when I stopped watching year ago. No JR.
I knew he hasn’t been doing TV for a while, but it didn’t hit me till last night how much his play-by-play added to the broadcast. He was always able to add the appropriate element to each match, depending on what it called for: excitement, drama, humor, gravitas. He made every match seem like it was the biggest one of the night.