Just when you thought you heard it all (NL cellar dweller related)

by sectionop92 on May 27, 2008 8:26 PM PDT Comment 9 comments

On my way back from doing a favor for my roommate tonight, the homeristic Ted Leitner made my ears do a triple-take with a quote for the ages. Here's how Teddy Homer put it,

"With all the talent the Mets have, I'll take the Padres clubhouse in a second anytime."

I'm not taking him out of context. He didn't give the slightest hint that he was kidding. Teddy Homer proved just how under the heel he is when it comes to his employer. He'd rather not have a team with talent even if it underachieves, but have a team that has had the bottom fall out from under it, but has the "aw shucks" attitude. Ted lives in Denialsville...that the Padres will find a way out of being terrible and this won't last. It would be like any of us saying "Yeah, I want that Gamers spirit in SF rather than a load of talent, like in Tampa." To put it simply, Ted would rather have his kid's finger painting than have a Picasso if given the choice. Jon Miller is Aphrodite to Ted Leitner's hackneyed Banshee. For once, I do feel sorry for the Padres fans with the ownership that's copying the Bidwell model oh so well from the Arizona Cardinals.

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ted is a monkey

always has been

by bacci40 on May 27, 2008 10:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Too true

We Giants fans justifiably complain about an awful lot of stuff, but we do enjoy perhaps the best broadcasting team in the game. I’m not saying they’re not homers; I’m just saying they’re really good.

Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)

by antinous on May 27, 2008 10:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, tbh

I’d rather have my kid’s finger painting than a Picasso, but I wouldn’t go around showing my friends how great this new finger painting I just got was.

by Viliphied on May 27, 2008 11:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

My only saving grace

after going to school in San Diego for 5 years was that KNBR came in faintly after the sun went down so I could listen to the Giants broadcasts in certain areas. Ted Leitner is the WORST announcer in the history of announcers, and he only serves to fuel my hatred of the Mothers. I much prefer them in last place. Drove me crazy when they were beating the Giants from 2004-2006 with all his smuggy homerness. ARGHH!!!

by joebirdie3 on May 27, 2008 11:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The worst?

Have you heard Hawk Harelson or Ron Santo? That ball that Soranio dropped the other day with Santo screaming “on no…” reminded me (happily) of the Brant Brown drop in 1998. Good times.

by tyrannoman on May 28, 2008 8:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Difference being that Hawk and Santo are former players hired by their respective stations to root for their teams on the radio – Leitner’s just an asshole.

by GiantsFanInExile on May 28, 2008 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ted’s disjointed logic goes back to his student broadcasting calls of Oklahoma Sooners football games and the fact that he had to drive around in a VW Bug and the football players all had better rides than he did, as he put it. Basically, if you’re a standout athlete and you’re not team-first…or just don’t play in San Diego…you’re not to Ted’s liking.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on May 28, 2008 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Now

The other homers on the Mads flagship station are trying to get the apathetic fanbase to come out to “voting” parties to get Adrian Gonzalez in the Top 5 in NL first basemen for the All-Star game. The head cheerleader in all of this, “Philly” Billy Werndl, somehow thinks he can get 300,000 votes for the guy because Billy has developed a friendship with Adrian and that Gonzalez takes time out to talk to everyone.

Seriously, I wish I was making this up. Billy and his co-host take great angst at Ryan Howard being in the #5 spot. They believe the man is more Luis Gonzalez than brute force because of his home ballpark. All I can say is Gonzalez is a lefty and there is a nice short porch is RF for him when Adrian pulls that ball. You can go ask Armando Benitez about that in a 6-5 Giants win last season, which Gonzalez made much closer in the bottom of the ninth due to that.

They do want Lincecum as the starter in the All-Star game, because they just don’t like Brandon Webb…and his five wins against sub-.500 teams. I still hear Teddy’s “agh!” when he had to reveal a month back that when the Mads were losing, that the D-Backs won and the Mads were about to be 11.5 back. For a Jewish guy, he likes being on that Mads cross.

it's always noonan somewhere

by sectionop92 on May 28, 2008 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

See, this is what you do...

You sell the Picasso and keep the kid’s finger painting, using the money from the sale to put your kid through years of abusive art school, all the while holding that fact above their head.

One day, the kid will become a truly disturbed, truly gifted artist and their finger painting will be worth a mint and they will guiltily buy you back the Picasso—then you have both.

by kaliber on May 28, 2008 5:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs