Going off that Steve Phillips thread, I see you guys knockin analysts all the time, but is there anybody you give praise for that you watch on TV?
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Going off that Steve Phillips thread, I see you guys knockin analysts all the time, but is there anybody you give praise for that you watch on TV?
The Cardinals podcast team on FSN is awesome!!:D:D Really the Wednesday Night Baseball crew is O.k.
There are some good announcers, but for televized analysts.... not really. Keith Law and Ron Schandler are great.
Jerry Remy is fantastic - I could listen to him every game of my life. Even the most boring, drawn out, lopsided game, he makes it so worthwhile and funny...oh man.
Not sure he's really an analyst, more 'color commentator', but he was in the game for a while, so I'll take it.
I would have mentioned him, but like you say, he is not really an analyst. But he is far and away the best commentator in the game. He and Don are greatQuote:
Originally Posted by Alloutwar
I've never really liked the NESN guys. This could be in part because at one point they were talking about how they forgot to pack a candle in their luggage or something like that.
Rem Dawg, Ray Fosse, Jim Palmer, you could count Vin Scully because he does everything, Mike Krukow, Mark Grace, Bert Blyleven, Al Leiter (when he was doing it), David Cone, Al Hrabosky, not one of the 4 different rotating analysts on Toronto broadcasts because they all blow chunks. It's all local guys, forget about the national analysts: they're just windbags.
Vin Scully is probobly the only person who I would watch/listen to a ballgame just for the broadcasters. Hell, I would listen to him on the radio before I'd watch other guys do the game on TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
As for Jays broadcasters, they're all awful, except Darren Fletcher. He's not too bad. Its too bad CBC isn't broadcasting games anymore, since Jim Hughson is much better than Jamie Campbell or (god forgive) Rod Black.
Yeah, you're right about Fletcher and the CBC. Problem is Fletcher will only travel to games that are close to the family ranch in Illinois. What Jim Hughson brought was that he made his analysts Jesse Barfield (best one the Jays have had in a while) and Rance Mulliniks better by being so good with the flow of the game and understanding its pace. Rare is the broadcaster who can excel at a fast paced game like hockey and a slow paced game like baseball, but Hughson does it smoothly and effortlessly. It's interesting to note that the role of analyst has evolved towards class clown / comedian. Personally I like it because it's better than some of the pablum spewed by the more serious (read: unfunny) analysts.
I like Pat Tabler.. I can't stand Mulliniks..
Jim Hughson is a lot better than Jamie Campbell. .I still miss Hughson and Buck Martinez..
That would depend on what you consider Vin Scully.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies
I like Remy, but Vin is the master.
Paul Splittorff for the Royals is really good because he doesn't say stupid $h*t.
Their radio team is AWFUL. I wanted to throw up about 20 times today trying to listen to the radio feed of the game against PIttsburgh since they blacked out the Pittsburgh feed here.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarthJaker
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Vin Scully is the greatest. Charley Steiner is alright, but nothing fantastic. I really enjoy Joe Buck though, whenever he's announcing a game, be it football or baseball.
I like Seattle's crew and Barry Larkin.
Vin Scully is the greatest, and that is the end of this thread. He's in his 80's now and has lost a step or two, yet he's still far ahead of the rest. I'm just amazed that he still does the entire game by himself, just like he did back in the 50's. Rumor has it that Vinny is going to hang it up after this year, so enjoy him while you can.
I heard him for the first time ever yesterday while watching Dodger's Padres, and was amazed he was solo. He sounded great.Quote:
Originally Posted by beerchaser
Watching a game that Vin is working is like listening to a grandfather or uncle tell a three hour long baseball story chock full of references from now and long ago and weaving it all together into a very cohesive, extremely listenable narrative. If you haven't heard him at work - you've got a week of MLB Extra Innings free (lucky bastards in the States. Up here no MLB network + no free MLB Extra Innings = :mad: ) so get going and stop making excuses like the fact that he comes on too late if you're in the East...or don't and miss out on the greatest that ever was, is now, or ever will be. Period.Quote:
Originally Posted by beerchaser
Well Action is there even baseball played north of the border anymore? j/kQuote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
Yes Vin is the master. Still doing the games like they used to be...Solo and still getting everything right.
Reminds of Chick Hearn.
john madden :)
and by John Madden I mean hell no!
I can't stand Rosenthall at all either
I do like Al Hrabosky, does the Cardinals colour games, he gets very detailed when watching the games, helps you as a listener get inside a pitchers head, I like that.
I don't pay attention to analysts though, they tend to make predictions and don't seem to ever have a backing, and most seem to only want to talk about new england teams or large market teams, so i tend to ignore them
Mike shannon, former cardinals third basemen, does the radio broadcasts.
It's great he'll barely talk until like the 4th inning, disapear for 3 innings, and come back with a few buds in him and he starts talking about the most random stuff. it's entertaining to say the least...and he has a great voice for the game
Yes there is and every Opening Night in Toronto it seems the same moronic, sophomoric, bush league, can't hold their liquor or get drunk and enjoy themselves without endangering the lives of those around them, f*cktard a$$holes show up with their barnoculars (binocular flasks) and other liquor containers and ruin the game for others in the stands and manage to get our Home Opener on ESPN Sportscentre for all the wrong reasons. I have no objection to them sneaking their liquor in. That's their prerogative, but when they do that and then go on to throw baseballs on the field narrowly missing the opposition fielders and come close to causing "their own team" (those three words are in quotation marks because these twits couldn't give two sh!ts about baseball - Jays or Tigers...I'm not even sure some of them were aware there was a ballgame going on last night) to forfeit a game that they had well in hand. Then there was the Einstein who threw a half full plastic pop bottle out of the upper deck and hit someone in the lower bowl in the head. These people need to be introduced to the joys of soccer hooliganism and stay there...don't come back...ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by reflections
Then for some reason they don't show up again until next Opening Night, well except on $2 ticket nights because the money they save on tickets gives them enough to buy what an extra three-quarters of a beer (?) but instead they buy 10 extra beers because these troglodytes can't do simple arithmetic. It's why more and more baseball fans are staying away from Opening Night and $2 ticket nights in this city and so of course with nature abhorring a vacuum as she does, the ratio of cave-dwelling neanderthals to baseball fans is skyrocketing to dangerous levels on these nights. Go to the game if you love baseball. If you don't, f**k off, find an establishment (or a dive) in which to get pissed and throw sh!t and get into fights with the people around you while you watch the game. If Opening Night attendance levels swoon to 20,000...good. At least the majority of them will be baseball fans. I'm glad I don't go to these circuses anymore.
...In other news, in case you missed it, there was a ballgame at the Rogers Centre between the Blue Jays and the Tigers. The Jays took it 12-5 as Adam Lind had a good week going 4 for 5 with 6 RBI and Travis Snyder rocked as well. Bear with me, it might be one of the few times I feel good about my team this year. :D :) :D ...We now return you to the discussion of baseball analysts already in progress and we thank you for allowing us to rant. ;)
Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling are the best current team, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy are the best broadcasters ever
I like gary keith and Ron a lot too. And I hate Kay the Yanks guy
I'm watching the NESN broadcast now, there's one guy with an incredibly reasonable nice-sounding voice, and the other guy has this awful accent that is making me seriously consider turning the game off.
Hernandez finally done with his drug problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by metsguy234
Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy, but I'm pretty sure you know that and you're just trying to pick a fight with RSR. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by metsguy234
I omitted the Mets broadcast team. Darling and Hernandez are very knowledgeable and you gotta love Kiner.
Yeah, I know who they are, I'm not sure which is the one with the annoying Boston accent though...Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
Jerry Remy: Da Rem Dawg.
His voice sounds like a cat dying... I'm gonna watch a different gameQuote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
He is awesome, and not on drugs during broadcasts unlike a certain MetQuote:
Originally Posted by metsguy234
WTF Hernandez hasn't done drugs in 25 years... even if he was on drugs on the booth he's got a much better voice then Jerry "Terrible Voice" RemyQuote:
Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies
Have you never heard a Boston accent before?Quote:
Originally Posted by metsguy234
Yes I have, and people with them DO NOT belong on television... thank god that guy doesn't broadcast for the Mets...Quote:
Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies
Let the record show that I predicted this, the latest p!ssfest between metsguy and RSR almost an hour ago. Of course, it's not hard to do, but I'd have to say I nailed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
Oh how much I love 13 years old getting into pissing contests :)
I like the Astros announcers, along with Milo Hamilton on the radio...
on ESPN, I like John Kruk, he's a pretty funny guy. :P
One thing that amazes me is why don't guys in the booth have computer with baseballreference.com open in front of them. It seems like it would be an easy step that they could take a 10 sec and check something before they speak.
His personality makes up for it. It is really no worse then a NY or Brooklyn accentQuote:
Originally Posted by metsguy234