Radio broadcaster question

KP · Aug 7, 2007

micropolitan guy said:

Dave Niehaus has clearly slipped the past five years or so. He makes way too many mistakes, but he'll be the M's guy until he dies, if he wants to. His biggest fault is never telling the score. I mean never, sometimes even at the end of a half-inning.

Rick Rizzs is a cheerleader for the M's, of course, but is very competent. No one would have been accepted following a legend like Ernie Harwell in Detroit, especially a legend who left under less-than-happy circumstances.

I felt sorry for Rizzs yesterday having to do the "kid in the radio booth" interview he has to do every game. KId gave one-word answers to al his questions, most of which were open-ended.

M's broadcasts (and all broadcasts, probably) have become so clutterd with sponsor tie-ins it's much harder for the announcers to do the game in an even flow because they're shilling "the Jorvy Roofing weather outside" or the "Magnolia Moment" every half-inning.
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Have you heard a Yankees game? Every friggin pitch has a tie-in.

bigbadeagle said:

budcrew08 said:

This will sound fanboy looser like, but what does everybody think about Joe Castligione in Boston?
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Good, solid. Could have sold the final out of the World Series in 2004 a little more, but what the heck (still one of the highlights of my life that I got to watch that with my old man, a former Sox season ticket holder, a year before he went to the Great Bleachers in the Sky).
Would be a lot better with Trupiano at his side because Geffner sounds like a minor league announcer. O'Brien's OK. Not bad, not great.
Could be worse. Could be Thorne.
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You are giving minor league announcers a bad name.

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