Baseball announcers

Good answers, all.

Reasons vary: Bathroom break, mental health break from overbearing partner, chance to sweet talk the impressionable new PR intern...

 

If you couldn't stand six innings next to Rick Rizzs, why would you want to work nine next to him?

 

Gotta save the pipes for the local institution.

 

At least Sterling is being somewhat more candid this season about his increasingly-frequent flubs.

He gets points for that.

But it's all so, so over.


"It is high . . . it is WRONG . . . it is . . . GONE!"

 

Most announcers get halftime (note the analyst or a "host" usually handles halftime or in hockey, between-periods shows). In baseball, an inning off gives a pxp guy a 15-minute break in the middle of the game to rest his pipes, relieve himself, stretch his legs or simply go get a beer.

Usually, you see the pxp guy take off the 3rd & 6th or 7th (as in Marty Brennaman), or the 5th (Pat Hughes).

I remember Hughes taking a half-inning off before the Cubs used an understudy, and Santo doing pxp. It was quite possibly the most brutal 10 minutes of radio I've ever listened to.

 

You haven't listened to any Yankees games, lately, have you?

 

I think Rick took the break to get away from Bob Rathbun, who put the "awe" in awful.

 

To recycle a previous sig of mine . . .

"And you thought it couldn't get worse'

But so long as George I is using oxygen, we won't be rid of either perpetrator, anytime soon.

 

So I was on the East Coast for a few days this week, and I heard two of the lamest calls I've heard in quite a while.

After a Cano home run..."It's Robinson Cano, don't you know?!?"

And later following a Teixeira HR..."A Tex(t) message from Mark Teixeira. You're on the Mark, Teixeira!"

 

Consider all the years you've been spared this swill, and be grateful.

 

They were two of a kind, indeed