Haha, true!
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
fucking destroy the white sox on wgn (harrelson, yes?). jesus. i never had wgn until this year, and that's okay.
gotta say that i like the orioles' staff. the p-b-p guys are capable (it is odd that i know that fred manfra was qb at oj simpson's high school, though). jim palmer suffers occasionally from hall-of-famer syndrome, but honestly not too much, and often lightens it up with an anecdote about how earl weaver kicked his ass. buck martinez is also good, and neither of them are nightmarish homers.
nats are kind of weird. on the radio side they've got two old school guys who switch roles every few innings. it's fine apart from the incessant mentions of the "rhythmic applause". television color is ron darling, who is fine content-wise but has strange inflection--everything he says sounds vaguely like a question. (when i mentioned to a friend back in april that darling was doing color he asked "has he talked about the no-hitter he threw in college yet?" to which the answer was yes, but the p-b-p guy brought it up.)
i dislike gary thorne on principle, but i think he's a decent announcer. steve stone is kind of awesome. the tbs guys are all right--i appreciate they way skip says 'chipperjones...'
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
"Fans, after the Pirates game next Saturday, please stay for a concert by the All-American Rejects sponsored by KROQ.
[pause]
You know alternative groups these days have the strangest names...
The other day I heard of a group named "Three Doors Down"...
Makes you wonder who these guys are... where they live... Three Doors Down.
And the first pitch: change-up, fouled away...
How about "Alice In Chains"?...
[voice trails off slightly]
"The Greatful Dead"....
― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 17 September 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
a spreadsheet listing the first 10,000 or so national TV games, and the broadcasters who called them.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuEh2Uie-nSmdG1Na1d0dHhwUnFMQlE3VjZ5REJTbnc&output=html
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2013 11:49 (ten years ago) link
I don't remember Koufax doing color for NBC in '72.
Nor did I know that Jackie Robinson worked games for ABC in '65.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
that was completely awesome, spent way too much time looking at it.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link
I do remember the guest "third man" in the booth NBC did in summer '73... ranging from actual ex-regulars like Red Barber, Dizzy Dean and Mel Allen to Danny Kaye, Glen Campbell and... George C. Scott!
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
No recollection of Lupica doing color (1990 only, apparently). Good lord.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Saturday, Jan. 1, lists four bars: the Back Room, still on Rush Street, plus three long-ago joints: 20 E. Delaware, Sully’s and Peppy’s, with expenses for each $10.30, $9.97, $10, and $8.95. This in a year when a six-pack of Old Style set you back $1.29.
You needed to cite who you entertained to get the write-off, so on New Year’s Day he lists Dave Condon, the Tribune sports columnist; Billy Sullivan, who owned Sully’s; and Joe Pepitone, the former Yankees first baseman who had been traded to the Cubs.
And so it begins. A chain of old-time Chicago bars — Riccardo’s, Boul Mich, Mr. Kelly’s. A posse of early 1970s sports figures — Wilt Chamberlain, Don Drysdale, Gale Sayers. Plus a few unexpected blasts from the past: boxer Jack Dempsey, comedian Jack Benny.
“These guys did nothing but go out and have a few cocktails,” said Jimmy Rittenberg, who owned Faces, which Caray visited 14 times in 1972. “I don’t know how they did it. They were 20, 30 years older than me and I couldn’t keep up with them.”
Jan. 16 something unusual happens. Caray is in Miami, yet there are no expenses, just one enigmatic word, “Super.”
After that break, if indeed it was, comes 288 consecutive days in bars, not only in Chicago, but New York City, and of course on the road with the Sox, beginning with spring training in Sarasota.
http://www.suntimes.com/sports/27767026-419/harry-caray-diary-tracked-every-drink-every-bar-in-1972.html#.U5H44vldVyy
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Free BP article on some staff faves; decent read including the comments, where the writers are taken to task for picking hometown guys, which the commenters then mostly do as well.
I didn't know Dewayne Staats likes to call balls "non-strikes."
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=24352
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 August 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Are broadcasters employed by the network or the team? Mix of both? How much does it matter? In some cases, the network is owned or co-owned by the team, right? (eg YES)
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
it used to be a mix, but maybe team is increasingly the answer?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
That's sort of my thinking too. I wish Cot's had a broadcasters section — I'd love to know who's cutting the checks to the mouths who jibjab on my teevee. In the case of the Braves I'd guess Fox for Chip and the team for Joe Simpson, but who the hell knows for sure?
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
i'd be pretty sure the guys sitting next to each other have the same boss.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
hmm, not sure I could assume that.
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
search: jim deshaies
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 April 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
Pete Rose is joining Fox Sports:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2435097-pete-rose-to-join-fox-sports-as-baseball-analyst?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
I'm actually excited for this.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 19 April 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
He'll probably not want to be seen making calls during the broadcast.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 April 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
not really the right thread but w/e
the centerstage w/ chris russo is amazing, in response to why he got sent to boarding school -
"in 8th grade i got a 50 on a spanish final and my mother loved spanish and her beloved only child gets a 50 on the final she said thats it get him outta here"
― johnny crunch, Friday, 14 August 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
That's it, huh?
― Andy K, Saturday, 15 August 2015 12:07 (eight years ago) link
well he also said that lebron is no michael jordan
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 August 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
this is a bad list
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2017/jul/11/best-mlb-broadcast-teams-baseball
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
Had no idea that Steve Berthiaume likes baseball so much.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
That was the worst list
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 03:20 (six years ago) link
Keith Hernandez really needs an intervention where he is told that every truth he introduces with "When I was a kid" IS AN ILLUSION.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 July 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
Keith: "You could count on the guys like Mays, McCovey, Jimmy Davenport every year"
Davenport (SFG 3b)'s WAR in his seasons as a regular, 1958-69:
1.3, 1.8. 1.1, 2.9, 4.8, 0.9, 1.2, -0.2, 1.2, 3.5, 0.1, -0.4
Decent career, and could charitably be called consistent for perhaps his first 5 seasons. (When Keith was a Bay Area rooter between ages 4 and 9, which is the relevant stat here.)
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 July 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
I guess I am going to have to fire up the archive of last night's Cards game; from FB:
Tim McCarver just went on an epic rant (even for him) against pitch counts, sabermetrics, and the world in general. Anyone have the ability to get video of the bottom of the 5th? It was unreal. I wasn't even mad, just laughing. Dan McLaughlin, the play by play guy, did an amazing job of egging him on and subtly mocking him.[
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 July 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
.@RealMichaelKay: An over-reliance on analytics likely cost the Yankees in the ALDS. pic.twitter.com/P4EiF004FR— YES Network (@YESNetwork) October 10, 2018
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
such a massive idiot
The NYT Mag article on the Mets' booth a couple weeks ago was pretty good
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
Who was the guy on the left? He was right -- Sanchez and Stanton had a terrible approach against a pitcher who couldn't throw strikes.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 11 October 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
2019 will be the final season forsteve blass (pirates)marty brennaman (reds)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 January 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
kirsten karbach, the minors' first female play-by-play broadcaster, has moved up to double-a reading. still a long way from MLB, but it's a big step up from the florida state league
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 February 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
wtf len kasper axed by the cubs and is now on white sox radio?
at least he can still say Chicogo in that weird way he does i guess, but that’s pretty fucked up
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 December 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
wow. honestly, i have better hopes for the 2020-25 chisox than the chisox (even with larussa), so maye it can make sense
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 December 2020 08:25 (three years ago) link
'boog' sciambi is the cubs' new tv pbp guy
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 January 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
I still miss Boog from his one (?) season with the barves. But I haven't heard him in years, don't know if he's still good not bad.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
i've liked him on espn. and he's kind of goofy in a way that should work well with deshaies
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
Somebody should take Eric Karros to the side and tell him he's starting to look like Dr. Steve Brule.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Saturday, 10 July 2021 23:45 (two years ago) link
vasgersian out on espn sunday nights
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
absolutely love steve stone
The guy screaming "He has two strikes, Tony!" after Tony La Russa intentionally walked Trea Turner on a 1-2 count to pitch to Max Muncy who proceeded to hit a three-run homer is peak chef's kiss. (via @NBCSWhiteSox)pic.twitter.com/C9yaR0ZdBU— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 9, 2022
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 June 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
Posnanski was quite exasperated too:
https://joeposnanski.substack.com/p/la-russa-strange-days-indeed?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Isn’t it amazing how the people who most mock advanced statistics are the ones who rely on ultra-specific stats that could not possibly be more manufactured or meaningless?
i just want to say, regarding this and TLR
YES!!!!!!!!!
and it also applies to so many foolish baseball announcers who STILL don't know what OPS (and mock it?) is, let alone a real advanced stat
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 June 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link