Bigger than the game

Jay Mariotti. Game over.

Joe Buck is the worst of them all. Listening to him is like scratching a blackboard. The only reason why he's even working brooadcasting is because of daddy. Tim McCarver don't know when to shut up after he gets his point across. I'd rather poke a stick in my eye than listen to those two bozos for 9 innings.

John Sterling, radio voice of the NY Yankees is full of himself with his signature home run calls that he often screws up because he's so into himself preparing how he's gonna make his call but he forgets to track the ball to see if it ever actually went over the fence before calling it out.

He will also talk over anybody who's the analyst in the booth.

With that said, I'll turn down the sound when Yankees on a FOX for a national game and turn up the radio and listen to Sterling.

Zombywoof

I agree on McCarver and Buck. As a Sox fan I'm stuck listening to them about 10-20 times a year. Buck is full of himself and McCarver lost his fastball about 5 years ago, now he forgets his point 1/2 the time and screws up players names all the time. He needs to go.

Bryant Gumbel seems to come to mind for a sports media personality who thinks he is very important!!!

For me the class act of ESPN sports reporters is Bob Lee of OTL. Presents the case without interdicting his biases.

My son likes Rome of ESPN. IMHO Rome is caustic and obnoxious. He says Rome tells it like it is and doesn't fudge the truth of the matter. He says a reporter should get down to the bottom of the truth, no matter who feather's get ruffled, that's his job.

JMO

To me Matt Versagen on the MLB network is a joke.Always interjecting a snide comments.If they need a anchor let Larkin do it.He will keep things moving forward.

BBkaze,
Have your son you tube The Rome interview when he got slapped down. I forgot the quarterbacks name, he played for the Rams when they were in LA, but it was hilarious and it is how he got his big break.

I found the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57W05-oopNA

You guys can hear people talking on the TV???????? My TV must be broke more than I thought - it shows the picture just find except for this small box in the top right corner that always says MUTE.

I really need to

ESPN Sunday Night Baseball combo of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan are just painful to listen to anymore.

Love Gammons. Agree with the post on Bob Lee.

I'm with Holden...
Jay Mariotti. He's not just a tool, he's the whole toolbox.

The quarterback for the Rams was Jim Everette. Rome would call him Chris, after the female tennis player. Did it to his face and Jim asked him not to do that. Rome did it again to taunt him...boom, boom, out go the lights.

Rome plays a guy who tells it like it is, on TV, but in reality, he's just a blowhard with an opinion. He knows next to nothing, so there's nothing to tell.

I still miss Phil Rizzuto doing Yankee games. He was the consummate homer and unabashed in it.

Agree that Jim Rome is a egotistcal zero. Saw the clip when Everett upended him in an interview.

Gammons still is worth listening to every day you can.

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Originally posted by Baseballdad1228:
I still miss Phil Rizzuto doing Yankee games. He was the consummate homer and unabashed in it.

Phil Rizzuto was the best. What a great homer. Him, Frank Messer and Bill White were one of the best broadcast teams ever.

Messer, who was overlooked among the three IMO was very underrated as a broadcaster. He was one of the very best in the business.


One of my favorite Scooter-White moments here:

Pine Tar Game Radio Call - Rizzuto/White

Pine Tar Game TV Call - Messer/Murcer

Security was chasing Gaylord Perry who took off with the bat so the American League office can't get it..LOL...This was as good as it gets.

And a rookie Don Mattingly wearing #46


I got both the full 9th innings of both the radio broadcast and the tv broadcast of this game. It's so much fun to go back and listen and watch one of the most memorable moments in baseball history.

Listening to Phil Rizzuto telling everybody how White's gone and crossing the George Washington Bridge going home, then all of a sudden, White returns and the two of them getting into it was classic

Frank Messer and Bobby Murcer on the TV side were just as good and so different how the radio team described the incident. How Frank messer describing the game ending in a Yankee 4-3 win. Which we all know got overruled and the game was continued a month later and Royals won 5-4. Unbelievable what happened here.

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Joe Buck is the worst of them all. Listening to him is like scratching a blackboard.

Thank you. He is not funny or sharp. He is barely of average intelligence, imo. I watched maybe 3 innings of the 2008 WS. Tim McCarver needs adult day care. Rizzuto and Mercer were excellent.

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Originally posted by Dad04:
Tim McCarver needs adult day care.

Yeah, so what's wrong with that. Adult day care can be fun, and stimulating, and we don't hardly ever hurt ourselves (bad anyways).

I meant them, not me.

If Joe Morgan could keep his racist views out of his game calling, I'd really appreciate him more.

I enjoyed watching him playing as a kid.

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Originally posted by CPLZ:

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Originally posted by Dad04:
Tim McCarver needs adult day care.

Yeah, so what's wrong with that. Adult day care can be fun, and stimulating, and we don't hardly ever hurt ourselves (bad anyways).

I meant them, not me.

I'll let you know how I do in 30 years, if they don't kick me out the first day(care)

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Originally posted by YoungGunDad:
If Joe Morgan could keep his racist views out of his game calling

And his jealousy of the Yankees, especially the 77&78 teams. It kills him that people care more about those teams than his Red Machine. It comes out when he calls Yankee games.

Joe Morgan is the WORST... 2nd place is so far in the distance...