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[CMIZ5290]

Agree about Scully, but still surprised about your feelings towards Skip. I had heard he could be an asshole with the public, and somewhat of a jerk....But Hell, can't they all???

[gregr2]

I love listening to Scully! Even being on the east coast, I always look for a Dodgers home game on TV in the hopes I can hear him!

[nolemmings]

Agree about Scully, but still surprised about your feelings towards Skip.

Um, I'm no Braves guy and haven't watched their Superstation games in years, but aren't you guys talking past each other? Skip is dead, and clydepepper is ranting about his son Chip, or am I missing something?

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Um, I'm no Braves guy and haven't watched their Superstation games in years, but aren't you guys talking past each other? Skip is dead, and clydepepper is ranting about his son Chip, or am I missing something?

I have already penned some of the reason why, but the biggest reason is because the Braves' had their best broadcasting duo in Joe Simpson and Jon Sciambi, but let the later leave for ESPN (with slip replacing him). I thought they had amazing chemistry and added a lot to the telecasts.

slip was really proud of himself with the 'Jay-Hay Kid' moniker he prematurely hung around Jason Heyward's neck and the homerun call, 'Welcome to the Show' which he Yelled after Heyward's first AB homer, as well Yelling the unbelievably corny 'It's a Rocky Mountain High' when a Colorado pitcher completed a no-hitter against the Braves (in Atlanta, not the Rockies, by the way). It's all about volume to slip.

The worst thing about any sports play-by-play is repetition, followed very closely by excess information being provided. slip is monumentally bad on both of these counts.

Frequently, I'll turn off the TV volume and just listen to Don Sutton on the radio. Mr. Sutton is very, very good and you can feel that he respects the game.

Broadcasters are entrusted with some of our fondest memories - and there are a whole lot of them who think only of themselves.

I hope that this makes the reasons for my strong feelings clearer.

[D. Bergin]

I have very similar feelings about Michael Kay in New York. Usually it's left to the former ballplayers to keep Kay from going off the deep end. Ken Singleton being my favorite present Yankees announcer, followed by Paul O'Neill & David Cone.

John Sterling is pretty great on the radio.

I'm not a big fan of either Suzyn Waldman or Al Leiter.

Jim Kaat is probably my All-Time favorite Yankees announcer.

[packs]

Man I can't believe you like Sterling. I can't tell you how many times I've been in the car listening to a game and hear Sterling go into his home run theatrics only to have him pull back and say the ball was caught or foul. Also goes the other way with him calling a guy out at the wall only to then find out it was a home run. Calls the end of an inning when there are only two outs. A walk a strike out. It goes on and on.

The man is on the radio. He has the luxury of waiting for a play to play out before calling it. Still he gets it wrong all the time.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by packs

Man I can't believe you like Sterling. I can't tell you how many times I've been in the car listening to a game and hear Sterling go into his home run theatrics only to have him pull back and say the ball was caught or foul. Also goes the other way with him calling a guy out at the wall only to then find out it was a home run. Calls the end of an inning when there are only two outs. A walk a strike out. It goes on and on.

The man is on the radio. He has the luxury of waiting for a play to play out before calling it. Still he gets it wrong all the time.

+1...I agree about Sterling...I hated him when he was a Braves broadcaster....