I started talking about this vile piece of öööö and his constant and indefensible mouth-smacking about ten years ago. Back then, everyone else was complaining about Bob Davie and the "QB Duck" but nobody seemed to notice that Mark Jones was performing some kind of disgusting oral tap dance between every syllable he spoke. It's now 2018 and the problem is not just that nobody at ESPN has drowned Jones in an unflushed toilet - though let's be very clear, that is a problem - it's that somehow, the majority of commentators across all sports now do the exact same thing Jones does. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, ööööing college lacrosse, I have had to mute so many games in recent years that sometimes I turn off the audio the moment I start watching because I know what's coming and these öööös seem to have practiced this repugnant habit of theirs to the point that they could express some words in lip smacks alone. If your job is to speak on television to millions of people, there is no ööööing excuse whatsoever for smacking your mouth like some kind of ööööing animal with an overproduction of saliva and severe brain damage. If your ööööing career is one where you talk into a microphone for an audience, it is the easiest thing in the world to communicate your thoughts and analysis without smacking your mouth, clicking your tongue, or making that sickening guttural sound that can only come from someone who thinks their next sentence is so goddamn important that they can't waste the time it would take to finish choking down the liter of saliva they produced in the five entire seconds since the last time they swallowed.
I didn't know misophonia was a thing until someone on here sent me a private message after one of my meltdowns over Mark Jones. For whatever reason, those sounds bother me more than they do the average person, and they bother me to the point that they're still the only thing that makes me feel what I would consider genuine rage and gives me seriously powerful urges to commit violence. It doesn't matter if it's a sports announcer or some inconsiderate ööööwad on a podcast or any random person I meet, it always has the same effect. But when you're talking about a profession defined by your ability to speak to people, never mind how repellent and infuriating I find it personally, it is very simply ööööing rude and unprofessional to smack your mouth into the microphone for millions of people to hear.
