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.

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.

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. :)

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.

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.

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.