Post subject: The White Sox have the WORST announcers ever
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:40 pm
Johnny Guitar
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Maybe it's because I'm from LA where I've been lucky to experience Vin Scully and Chick Hearn, and now live in the Bay Area with some decent guys doing the A's, Raiders, and Cal football. However, I was watching WGN yesterday, and the White Sox announcers are BY FAR THE WORST pair I have ever heard, even worse than the horrble TBS Braves announcers, who get the silver medal for second worst of all time. The following three reasons support my argument:
1) The announcers refer to themselves and the team as "we". You announcers are NOT part of the team. You have nothing to do with the action. Call the game as objective observers with occasional insights, not as cheerleaders.
2) Referring to all players on the team by their first name, or alternately adding a "y" to the end of their name (example: Chavez becomes "Chavy" or Mike becomes "Mikey" - note, these are men playing a game, not first graders.
3) Openly rooting for someone on the team to get a hit, and yelling into the microphone when they do so. I will give you a pass if it's the World Series, but for a game in June, there is no need to say: "Come on, we sure need a hit here to send the (other team) home empty-handed."
That being said, I have not heard many announcers throughout the country, so it's quite possible there are worse ones than the White Sox and Braves out there, but that's doubtful. If so, do yourself a favor and listen in to a Dodger game sometime - Vin Scully calls the game with complete objectivity, and lets you enjoy a Giants-Dodgers game even if you're a Giants fan. That's what calling a game is all about.
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Post subject: Re: The White Sox have the WORST announcers ever
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:31 pm
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:57 pm Posts: 3332 Location: Chicago-ish
alive888 wrote:
Maybe it's because I'm from LA where I've been lucky to experience Vin Scully and Chick Hearn, and now live in the Bay Area with some decent guys doing the A's, Raiders, and Cal football. However, I was watching WGN yesterday, and the White Sox announcers are BY FAR THE WORST pair I have ever heard, even worse than the horrble TBS Braves announcers, who get the silver medal for second worst of all time. The following three reasons support my argument:
1) The announcers refer to themselves and the team as "we". You announcers are NOT part of the team. You have nothing to do with the action. Call the game as objective observers with occasional insights, not as cheerleaders.
2) Referring to all players on the team by their first name, or alternately adding a "y" to the end of their name (example: Chavez becomes "Chavy" or Mike becomes "Mikey" - note, these are men playing a game, not first graders.
3) Openly rooting for someone on the team to get a hit, and yelling into the microphone when they do so. I will give you a pass if it's the World Series, but for a game in June, there is no need to say: "Come on, we sure need a hit here to send the (other team) home empty-handed."
That being said, I have not heard many announcers throughout the country, so it's quite possible there are worse ones than the White Sox and Braves out there, but that's doubtful. If so, do yourself a favor and listen in to a Dodger game sometime - Vin Scully calls the game with complete objectivity, and lets you enjoy a Giants-Dodgers game even if you're a Giants fan. That's what calling a game is all about.
*Not only that, they can go 30 seconds on the air without making a sound...
*They really only like to announce when the Sox do well. Otherwise it's "Crack......pause 15 seconds.....homerun Tigers, next up..."
*Their unison and coordinated "You can put it on the board, Yes" after every run
*Nobody can be as good as the Sox
*They have an inferiority complex with the North Siders.
*The fact that Hawk was pushing for Sox pitchers to bean Cub players...Great message for the kiddies there dumbass!!!
*their inability to analyze a situation, unless the Sox are doing well
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I've hated 'The Hawk' since I was a little tike. I loved it after the Twins won the series in '91, they had those shirts that said "YES!" to make fun of him.
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he looks up
you can put it on the booooooooard, YES
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do those guys have any catch phrases for teams that shoot their load in June, win the division in a landslide and bow out in the first round of the playoffs because they haven't played a meaningful game in 3 months?
do those guys have any catch phrases for teams that shoot their load in June, win the division in a landslide and bow out in the first round of the playoffs because they haven't played a meaningful game in 3 months?
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pjam81373 wrote:
little_secrets wrote:
do those guys have any catch phrases for teams that shoot their load in June, win the division in a landslide and bow out in the first round of the playoffs because they haven't played a meaningful game in 3 months?
Is this a Braves or Whitesox thread.
close, it's actually a San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners thread.
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I don't mind the Braves announcers, in fact I was upset when TBS decided to pull the plug on Skip Caray. Back when he was boozing it up, he had some funny shit to say every now and then. I check out Braves radio sometimes and he's always cracking on Joe Simpson. Those guys fight more than commentate.
Vin Scully is the best baseball announcer I ever heard. As I said in another thread last night, Dodger fans are very lucky to have him.
I don't mind the Braves announcers, in fact I was upset when TBS decided to pull the plug on Skip Caray. Back when he was boozing it up, he had some funny shit to say every now and then. I check out Braves radio sometimes and he's always cracking on Joe Simpson. Those guys fight more than commentate.
Vin Scully is the best baseball announcer I ever heard. As I said in another thread last night, Dodger fans are very lucky to have him.
vin is the best, and skip is second. a few days ago he said this, in regards to turner field's dying grass:
i've heard of bad grass before, but not in this context.
the thing about your post i don't understand is he said this on tbs. he's on less because he wants to be on less, but he's still on at least once or twice a week, sometimes more, so what are you talking about?
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Not sure how informed you are about TBS but since they changed over to a new format (it happened when Sex and the City was added), they actually let Skip Caray go because he was too "pro-Brave". The station directors wanted to reach out to everyone and not just the Atlanta fans. Anyway, they caught a lot of flak (sp) for this and letters poured in. Apparently this season, they've allowed Skip to return but with a little less leeway. Have you heard Skip mention his bouts with rehab and shit like that? One classic line the other day was when the bases were juiced and Skip said something to the point where the bases resembled what he used to be and the other guy (Pete Or Joe) just played along and had fun with it. It was great. Back to the point, Skip is back and all is right with the world. Thought it would be cool if Bill Murray would do one of our games.
_________________ i was dreaming through the howzlife yawning car black when she told me "mad and meaningless as ever" and a song came on my radio like a cemetery rhyme for a million crying corpses in their tragedy of respectable existence
Not sure how informed you are about TBS but since they changed over to a new format (it happened when Sex and the City was added), they actually let Skip Caray go because he was too "pro-Brave". The station directors wanted to reach out to everyone and not just the Atlanta fans. Anyway, they caught a lot of flak (sp) for this and letters poured in. Apparently this season, they've allowed Skip to return but with a little less leeway. Have you heard Skip mention his bouts with rehab and shit like that? One classic line the other day was when the bases were juiced and Skip said something to the point where the bases resembled what he used to be and the other guy (Pete Or Joe) just played along and had fun with it. It was great. Back to the point, Skip is back and all is right with the world. Thought it would be cool if Bill Murray would do one of our games.
oh, i guess you're talking about a few years ago?
to me, skip is better now than he's ever been. i don't think he's toned anything down, as he still makes off color jokes more than anyone i've seen while announcing baseball.
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