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Old 03-09-2014, 09:07 PM
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Vin has amazing longevity but personally, I can't stand more than 10 mins of his game calling. It is the non-stop worthless info-fest that irks me. "David is a graduate of USC and is 6'2"", 195 lbs. his mother is a nurse at the state hospital and his favorite color is teal". Shut up already!!
When he was covering the WS the small world anecdotes used to annoy the heck out of me. "Did you know that back in 1967 his father and Dwight Gooden's great uncle played for the same little league coach in Plano, Texas?"
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