Baseball Analysts

[200tang]

I like Seattle's crew and Barry Larkin.

[beerchaser]

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.

[RedsoxRockies]

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.

[actionjackson]

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.

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 = ) 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.

[reflections]

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 = ) 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.

Well Action is there even baseball played north of the border anymore? j/k

Yes Vin is the master. Still doing the games like they used to be...Solo and still getting everything right.
Reminds of Chick Hearn.

[Jeffy25]

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

[Jeffy25]

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

[actionjackson]

Well Action is there even baseball played north of the border anymore? j/k

Yes Vin is the master. Still doing the games like they used to be...Solo and still getting everything right.
Reminds of Chick Hearn.

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.

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. ...We now return you to the discussion of baseball analysts already in progress and we thank you for allowing us to rant.

[metsguy234]

Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling are the best current team, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy are the best broadcasters ever

[ewing6]

I like gary keith and Ron a lot too. And I hate Kay the Yanks guy

[metsguy234]

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.

[Jeffy25]

Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling are the best current team, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy are the best broadcasters ever

Hernandez finally done with his drug problem?

[actionjackson]

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.

Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy, but I'm pretty sure you know that and you're just trying to pick a fight with RSR.

I omitted the Mets broadcast team. Darling and Hernandez are very knowledgeable and you gotta love Kiner.

[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.

Yeah, I know who they are, I'm not sure which is the one with the annoying Boston accent though...

[actionjackson]

Jerry Remy: Da Rem Dawg.