The Best and the Worst on TV
From: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/12/03/making-the-call-on-baseballs-best-worst-tv-broadcasters/
I'm glad that Hawk was number one in the worst category and a little surprised to see Dick Bremer in the running for the best. As much as I like the Dick n Bert show I have to agree with the site that noone calls a game like Vin Scully. To me it will be a sad day in baseball when he retires.
I'm curious to hear everyone's thoughts on these guys now that we are months removed from the season. Will someone confess that " he fisted the ball into shallow right field" is actually ok to say on the air?
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I'm shocked
to see Dick and Bert up there too, but you know what…after listening to so many different broadcasters last year, I have to say they are a LOT more entertaining to listen to. In baseball you get a lot of the same style of voice, deep and clear—very much a broadcast radio voice like you’d find on the news. Some of those guys make me want to go to sleep.
D&B can be annoying and repetetive, sure, but I’m pretty sure you can say that about any home announcers. They’re entertaining and, no matter how funny it is, it’s great when the guy calling the game gets at LEAST as excited as the guy watching the game from the bar or the couch.
PS—I hate Hawk.
I actually was really wishing that D&B would have called Game 163.
Can you imagine their (especially Dick’s) reactions to Casilla’s game-winner? That was the point where I realized how much I enjoyed/was going to miss them.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver
The good news is...
Chip Caray got fisted by TBS. Now if only the MLB would fist TBS…
"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp
by less cowbell, more 'neau on Dec 8, 2009 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
+1
I really wish MLB allowed local broadcasts of playoff games. The rest of the country can have TBS or Fox, but I’d love to see the locals get their own broadcasters. It would never happen, but I’d love it.
by Adam Peterson on Dec 12, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
I'd be happy with
one local broadcaster from each team calling the game for the playoffs.
Didn’t they do that for the Sat. Twins v Royals game at the end of the season?
I don't mind D&B so much after the TBS debacle
They’re annoying to regular listeners because they don’t change their views no matter what. Dick will always call for a bunt after the lead-off guy gets on, and he’s shocked when they don’t bunt, unless Morneau’s up. Bert will always chastise pitchers for throwing the ball above the knees. But if you just ignore their quirks, they actually do a decent job.
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
I like D&B
If you watch a few games a week every week, almost any broadcasting duo will get stale. There’s a lot of air time to fill and not every game is interesting so its a big challenge for them to be interesting to the once-in-a-while viewer while not becoming repetitive to the every-game-viewer.
So its easy and understandable for us diehards to Bert-bash and think the grass is greener when we tune into a different network once a month and hear a different set of commentary mannerisms that we haven’t heard a million times yet… but in the grand scheme of things I think Bert is better than most.
After getting a taste of how bad it could be [Hawk, Caray]
I appreciate Dick & Bert much more now. They’re homers, sure, but they’re great. Super entertaining (they play off each other quite well) and sometimes they even throw out some great analysis. :)
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver
After getting a taste of how bad it could be [Hawk, Caray]
Makes you appreciate the taste of Dick much more, I bet.
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist that one)
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by what_would_gil_thorp_do on Dec 9, 2009 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
Oh ho ho...
aren’t we so funny.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver
I actually started writing...
I don’t mind Dick so much, then I realized what I was writing and threw up in my mouth a little
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Hawk loves the Twins
Have you actually every listened to his broadcast? I know he can be insufferable, but Hawk consistently gushes over the Twins. I think he wants to date Joe Mauer, and if not Mauer then Gardy.
He liked GoGo too.
Don’t have to worry about that anymore. :\
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver
everyone hearts to fart
Without Bert, we wouldn’t have the (guaranteed-to-land-you-in-the-hospital) Bert Blyleven Radio Call Drinking Game:
Take a drink every time Bert talks about:
1) Playing career
2) The evils of pitch counts
3) The HOF
4) Farting or other juvenile High Jinks
5) How the Twins are a model org
Love it! Think Danny is still my favorite color guy, though; hearing him get audibly angry when a player is loafing it or making stupid mistakes or whatever is great.
formerly known in these parts as adamb
Add these
1. Downward plane
2 Outter half
3. Inner half
4. Down in the strike zone
5. Drop da head of da bat
6. Cheecago
7. Left the ball up
8. Did not miss it
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
I sure hope you can hold your liquor
by lookatthosetwins on Dec 8, 2009 7:11 PM EST up reply actions
I'd pass out in the third inning
"You're thinking too much. Just have fun." -- Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez in Sandlot
Dan is the best for as drinking game
drink every time he:
1) Takes a drink during the broadcast.
I’d be done by the third inning.
by Adam Peterson on Dec 12, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
Not sure of names
I’m in Albuquerque, so I watch all the broadcasts via MLB.TV. For my money, no one in the AL does a better job than the KC broadcasters. I would put Cleveland’s booth as #2.
The Yankees YES team would round out my top 3.
The Angels get the nod for worst in the AL (thank god they let the viewer choose the broadcast this past season). White Sox are second worst, but no where near as bad as the Angels.
I find Dick and Bert somewhere in the middle. When the Twins played at the Dome, I always watched their broadcast (unless it was against the Royals) due to the fantastic camera work. On the road, it was about 50/50 on pulling up Dick and Bert.
I admittedly don’t know the NL very well.
by PinkiePinkerton on Dec 9, 2009 12:37 PM EST reply actions

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