Mushnick hits another home run

oh, i thought that was clear.

 

THHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YANKEES ANNOUNCERS SUCK!

 

Wayne Hagan on Mets radio is pretty horrible as well.

 

Just plug in Mamma Corleone for Steinbrenner . . . and Fredo for Sterling, and you'll understand the situation perfectly.

The SECOND George goes . . .

 

This is true. More good ones on the radio than on TV, but very few overall. Scully, Uecker, Niehaus, Brennaman the Elder are always listenable (even if they do repeat their stories.) Any others, now that Kalas and Caray are gone and Van Wieren is retired? I like Steve Stone when I hear him, but can't think of too many more who stand out -- in a good way, I mean.

 

Dan Oregon:

Joe Angel in Baltimore is very good.

Dave Niehaus in Seattle is very good.

In fact, I prefer BOTH of them to Vin Scully IN 2009. I grant you that Scully was stupendous in the past but he has gone round the bend in recent years for my tastes.

Bob Uecker is still good but seems to be on a similar downhill arc as is Scully.

I miss Harry Kalas more and more every day...

 

This is a case where the pros are wrong. Is Sterling awful? Yes. But Yankee fans like him and he is popular. If he wasn't , he would be gone.

We cover freakin announcers like a gamer.

If you are not a Yankees fan, why do you care if Sterling stinks or not? Honest to god, it's like this announcing business is a sport in itself. If he was hurting their bottom line, than the Yanks would get him out.

Now, Waldman is the worst announcer ever. Sterling is fun.

 

i disagree strongly. i know many yankee fans, not a one who likes sterling or isn't frustrated by him and waldman. fans that listen on the radio are largely held hostage; with every game on tv, you only listen in the car or if you're outside at a barbeque or picnic, etc.

the yanks win and win, sterling has steinbrenner's blessing for life, apparently, and that's all there is to it. he is indeed fredo, secure until the boss dies.

believe you me, yankee fans "liking" sterling is far from the truth. he's pretty much a laughingstock -- phil rizzuto minus the charm and likeability. and since the scooter only did tv in his later years, who cared if he wasn't a polished broadcaster?

a radio play-by-play man shouldn't paint inreliable pictures. and that's all this pompous windbag does more and more.

 

- I'm a Yankee fan, and he's painful. Waldman is at least trying, it's not her fault she was created a crappy announcer.

- Hagen does suck. As a Yankee fan in NY, I've spent my whole life jealous of the Mets broadcasters. Finally one they can keep.

- I enjoyed the post that mistyped it as Stirling, reminding me of Scotty - Isaiah when Isaiah was wearing short shorts- and I was stunned at the level of incompetance that NY sports fans have been forced to endure through the ages.

 

Exactly Shockey. I am one of the many Yankee fans that despises Sterling / Waldman. Waldman brings out the worst in Sterling. When he was paired with Kay and then Steiner it was tolerable because you did not have to listen to him the whole game..

 

She's bad, but not worse than Steiner when he was here.