Old Man Miller...

by kwyjibo on Feb 9, 2007 5:35 PM PST

is here to stay! Or at least extended:

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070209&content_id=1798866&vkey=new s_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf

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Re: Old Man Miller...

See, Grant? I told you nobody reads your front page posts any more...

You're nobody 'til everybody in
this town thinks you're a bastard - Elvis Costello

by EliminateMe on Feb 9, 2007 5:52 PM PST reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

Grant wrote about this already? AH!

by kwyjibo on Feb 9, 2007 10:14 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

Is that the same one buried in Grant's tomb?

Save The Pitcher. Save The World

by E Ticket on Feb 9, 2007 10:33 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

Who's Grant?

by Brother Bummer on Feb 10, 2007 12:10 AM PST up reply actions

(grunt)

by Moggeee on Feb 10, 2007 1:33 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

I write stuff that gets put on the front page?

Sweet!

by Grant Brisbee on Feb 10, 2007 3:36 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

You right the stuff that makes the young girls sing.

Biggest mankinder in the history of no brain.

by Goofus on Feb 12, 2007 8:52 AM PST up reply actions

I right the ship that makes the sailors sing

by Moggeee on Feb 12, 2007 10:14 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

Longevity indicates someone doing a job well, and for Miller, that also entails being truthful despite a club's difficult times, telling fans what's happening on the field and off without being the ultimate "homer."

He is very much a homer, and all the better for it.

Remember 1962!

by El Person on Feb 9, 2007 6:45 PM PST reply actions

I beg to differ..

He may root for the Giants sure, but that does not detract at all from his calling. He does not call routine plays for the Giants like they were amazing efforts and downplay the amazing efforts of the other team (as some other Bay Area team's announcers do). He will call out badly performing Giants as well. See: The Benitez Skirmish.

Here's to a good 2007. Or 2008. Or 2009. Or 2010. Or...

by WalrusMan on Feb 9, 2007 10:16 PM PST up reply actions

Re: I beg to differ..

What are you talking about? Benitez got Miller's (Millers')(Millers's)(Muellers's) player of the game several times after the skirmish. giggle

Hats for bats, keep bats warm !

by PacBellBoozer on Feb 9, 2007 10:37 PM PST up reply actions

I'm with the Pinniped

Absolutely right, Walrus. You characterized a homer broadcaster perfectly: overstates his team's successes and understates the other team's successes. I would add another facet: there's a difference between a broadcaster's rooting for his own team because HE wants them to win and feels part of that team, versus a guy who might convey that he would like the team to win because he understands that most of his listeners want that and he is relating to them.

Jon Miller is in that latter category: the prime reason we can feel he wants the Giants to do well is because we listeners want it, but I don't think he personally cares either way. I think he is such a great broadcaster and teller of the baseball story that it doesn't matter if the Giants win-- it's still a great, rich tapestry of a story.

Love Giants; get heart and mind fried by Giants; repeat.

by Mayor of 311 on Feb 10, 2007 12:33 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Old Man Miller...

He should do his impressions more often, he's great at them. When the Giants are kicking the Dodgers' asses, I would love to hear him do the game in his Scully voice!!

by rxmeister on Feb 10, 2007 8:47 AM PST reply actions