Dumb Baseball Commentary on TV

by can of corn on Oct 14, 2008 12:40 PM PDT

The erudite minds on this site are not the only ones to notice how horribly, horribly bad the baseball commentary on TV is. See this article on Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2201954

I'd have to agree that John Kruk is amazingly lame. And the guy's idea for a show is a good one:

Instead, my show would take a cue from sites like Baseball Prospectus and Hardball Times and put crucial decisions in context. Consider BP's observation that the Angels-Red Sox series turned on three characteristically bold base-running decisions by the Angels that all turned out badly, which they used to illustrate the point that Mike Scioscia's managerial style has not kept up with the particular skills of his roster. Or their breakdown of the Phillies-Dodgers NLCS, which observed that the Phils' decision to bat Chase Utley and Ryan Howard in succession will allow Joe Torre to use his left-handed specialist, Joe Beimel, against both of them in key spots. It isn't as if this kind of analysis can't be put together on short notice—you just need analysts who aren't John Kruk.

Plus, the article led me to this nifty site:

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/

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Awful Announcing is a pretty good site. At least that’s what I thought up until they turned on Kruk and Kuip. Now the site is dead to me.

by chilibean_3 on Oct 14, 2008 12:44 PM PDT 0 recs

Ack! I now provide a guarded endorsement.

It's my blarg! Quick Pitch

by can of corn on Oct 14, 2008 5:01 PM PDT up 0 recs

Naw, it’s still a mighty fine site.

by chilibean_3 on Oct 15, 2008 2:01 PM PDT up 0 recs

also...

fire joe morgan is a pretty good sight for laughing at bad announcers
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im adopting "insert 37th pick's name here"

by Headhunter Rollins on Oct 14, 2008 12:44 PM PDT 0 recs

Formerly great

They don’t blog anymore.

They must feel their important work is done.

Yet on TV I still see Joe, and 3 out of 4 sportswriters still blow…

by Moggeee on Oct 14, 2008 1:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

They’re too busy writing The Office.

Maybe Mose Schrut has an expanded role this year.

The Denker bus is now bound for San Diego. Those who were passengers on it are now angrily stranded at a gas station in Modesto, CA. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 14, 2008 1:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

I think that there’s supposed to be a spinoff (that Amy Poehler will be in, post-pregnancy) and Ken Tremendous/Mose Schrut/I Can’t Remember His Real Name will be one of the head guys on that.

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com. It's not being updated right now. Hope for more at your own risk.

by groug on Oct 14, 2008 1:31 PM PDT up 0 recs

Michael Schur

But I’d stick with Ken Tremendous.

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Oct 14, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up 0 recs

You say Amy, I say YAYMY!

by satyricrash on Oct 14, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up 0 recs

The worst pandemic baseball has ever seen has been the infiltration and spread of the horrible and cheesy former player color analysts. Baseball broadcasting’s biggest strength has always been the traditional play-by-play broadcaster. Now every team trots out its own team: pre, during and post game. Then the “talkers” on the flagship station/network cover all the nuggets in-between.

What should take a team of three guys is made into a choir of usually bad, overlapping voices whom few are spared. Some of these guys are so bad it’s like a chicken clucking nonstop, getting its feathers yanked out and the chicken deriving orgasmic pleasure out of it that they do it for 161 more times to spite everyone else.

People like Joe Morgan have George W. Bush syndrome. As long as people tell them they haven’t done anything wrong, like hell they’ll change their approach to the situation.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on Oct 14, 2008 2:19 PM PDT 0 recs

+a large number between 108 and 110

It's my blarg! Quick Pitch

by can of corn on Oct 14, 2008 5:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

Last night

Tim McCarver was raving about ManRam. He said something like “He’s been so locked in the last two months, I have never seen a player keep up a streak like that for so long.”

I guess he forgot that Barry did it for four years straight.

by positiveuphemism on Oct 14, 2008 3:11 PM PDT 0 recs

Give McCarver some credit. It’s really tough to announce a game with Manny’s nuts in your mouth.

The Denker bus is now bound for San Diego. Those who were passengers on it are now angrily stranded at a gas station in Modesto, CA. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Oct 14, 2008 3:13 PM PDT up 1 recs

BUT MEAN BARRY SNUBBED JOE ONCE!

by satyricrash on Oct 14, 2008 3:16 PM PDT up 0 recs

McCarver got electrocuted when Deion threw the ice water at him. He just couldn’t figure out how the smoke got in his shoes after he took them off in the hotel room later on that night.

So that’s how we got the movie Memento.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on Oct 14, 2008 9:35 PM PDT up 0 recs

BREAKING NEWS

So, I just got back from the movies, and I don’t know if they do it back home, but here they play some commercials before the movie. True fact: He was calling a baseball game (well his counterpart was calling it) and he was falling asleep.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Oct 14, 2008 7:33 PM PDT 0 recs