Baseball Analysts

[ragecage]

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?

[DarthJaker]

The Cardinals podcast team on FSN is awesome!! Really the Wednesday Night Baseball crew is O.k.

[RedsoxRockies]

There are some good announcers, but for televized analysts.... not really. Keith Law and Ron Schandler are great.

[Alloutwar]

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.

[RedsoxRockies]

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 great

[gosensgo101]

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.

[actionjackson]

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.

[gosensgo101]

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.

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.

[actionjackson]

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.

[Mike67]

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..

[reflections]

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 great

That would depend on what you consider Vin Scully.
I like Remy, but Vin is the master.

[KowboyKoop]

Paul Splittorff for the Royals is really good because he doesn't say stupid $h*t.

[TheProdigy]

The Cardinals podcast team on FSN is awesome!! Really the Wednesday Night Baseball crew is O.k.

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.

[etothep]

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[5dodgers5]

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.