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Who is worse at broadcasting?
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:55 am
by SportsWorld
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:05 am
by trwi7
Still though.
1. Tim McCarver
2. Joe Morgan
3. That guy
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:22 am
by GYBE
How is Joe Morgan not an option? Even in a joke thread, we all must take every opportunity to belittle his broadcasting career.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:26 am
by Posey H8er
30 seconds before the home run he was talking like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no
And it seemed as if he made that dramatic call even before the ball was hit.
I nominate Hawk Harrelson and Darrin Jackson as the worst.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hzFdgXn_BTs
And what do you know, Hawk entered a new sport.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2NpJRGrrqJE
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:30 am
by SportsWorld
Hawk and DJ are the worst announcers in baseball. It used to be awful to listen to Cubs/Sox games when they only put the game on 1 station. Now they put the game on 2 different stations so we can listen to our own announcers.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:19 am
by WEFFPIM
I watched maybe 30 seconds of the ESPN game tonight, and I caught the prime 30 seconds in which Joe Morgan call Johan Santana "Johan Santa."
At least Tim McCarver can once in awhile provide some sort of insight. Joe Morgan just sits there and drools.
Hawk and DJ suck, too.
That guy in the video was great. Don't see what's so wrong with him. I mean, you could TOTALLY sense that something magical was about to happen.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:34 am
by Mags FTW
ROFL at the comments
Shut up SportsWorld, you're gay.
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:05 pm
by HCYanks
Joe Morgan wrote:Manny Ramirez is a great hitter because of balance. He can balance out his balance while balancing his level of balance.
Balance. Manny. Balance.
Tim McCarver wrote:Well, Manny [45 seconds of indecipherable English]
Kind of like choosing between a mob beating and a car accident.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:27 am
by High 5
I can't decide if that was a joke or not. Still I couldn't help but to laugh.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:11 pm
by Mags FTW
It's real. Watch his other videos. He's pretty dorky.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:34 pm
by Basketball Jesus
HCYanks wrote:Kind of like choosing between a mob beating and a car accident.
Given a choice I
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:39 pm
by HCYanks
Well with how mediocre a hitter he was Remy has to do something to establish himself in Red Sox canon.
Although the time he picked a fight with Bill Simmons over the RSN President thing was a pathetic attempt at press whoring.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:43 pm
by Da Schwab
Anytime they take Cookie Rojas out of the Marlins SAP booth, its like a trip to another country.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:56 pm
by wigglestrue
I literally wanted to kill McCarver during Game 4 of the World Series. I'm not a violent person, but I would've strangled him to within inches of his life. I can tolerate his mongoloid remarks on a Sunday afternoon in May, excellent fodder for jokes, nothing drastic at stake so I can tune him out at my leisure. But during a potential World Series clincher, when I don't have the choice of tuning him out because I'm paying attention to the game with 100% of my being...torture, pure torture. I've begun to hate baseball announcers as a breed. They all talk too much. Watch a broadcast from 30-40 years ago, there's sooooo much quiet during the game, the sounds of the crowd and the bat and gloves and ump. I wish there was a viewing option today that would mute the announcers but leave the rest of the game's sounds intact.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:01 pm
by Basketball Jesus
HCYanks wrote:Well with how mediocre a hitter he was Remy has to do something to establish himself in Red Sox canon.
Although the time he picked a fight with Bill Simmons over the RSN President thing was a pathetic attempt at press whoring.
Remy
used to be a great listen, especially when he
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:06 pm
by Basketball Jesus
wigglestrue wrote:I literally wanted to kill McCarver during Game 4 of the World Series. I'm not a violent person, but I would've strangled him to within inches of his life. I can tolerate his mongoloid remarks on a Sunday afternoon in May, excellent fodder for jokes, nothing drastic at stake so I can tune him out at my leisure. But during a potential World Series clincher, when I don't have the choice of tuning him out because I'm paying attention to the game with 100% of my being...torture, pure torture. I've begun to hate baseball announcers as a breed. They all talk too much. Watch a broadcast from 30-40 years ago, there's sooooo much quiet during the game, the sounds of the crowd and the bat and gloves and ump. I wish there was a viewing option today that would mute the announcers but leave the rest of the game's sounds intact.
Every Red Sox memory I had as a kid was on the back porch listening to the static-y charge of Castiglione and Coleman on the radio and the sweet silence of the crowd in between their calls. The old man would be grilling some beast on the charcoal, Bud Heavy in his hand. I
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:21 pm
by HCYanks
wigglestrue wrote:I wish there was a viewing option today that would mute the announcers but leave the rest of the game's sounds intact.
I was saying this over on the Yankee board a couple days ago. With TV broadcasting going completely digital in 10 months and Digital Cable and Satellite services practically everywhere, it seems like it wouldn't be hard for networks to start offering alternate feeds on games. If we can't have
good announcers, none at all looks like a great alternative.
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:27 pm
by studcrackers
what ever happened to doing simulcasts? the only people in dfw that does it is hockey games, people around here loved mark holtz (before he died) and eric nadel (currently in his 30th year doing ranger games) and im sure people would enjoy that too
but i dont hate the tv broadcasts, though josh lewin can talk his head off
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:33 pm
by Da big3
John Sterling and Susan Waldman, Sterling makes mike Mussina look like Nolan Ryan, and Waldman sucks up too much...........
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:01 pm
by NH_soxfan14