Giants extend contract with KNBR through 2012
Most important part: "The extension includes an agreement to expand the postgame show. For weekday home night games, play-by-play man Dave Flemming will take over hosting duties from Damon Bruce, whose reactionary, aggressive style has not been popular among some players and club officials."
Yay! Flemming! No more Damon Bruce!
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Sweet.
I loves me some Midnight Replay.
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Apr 11, 2009 1:11 AM PDT reply actions
Hell yes. The less bruce the better.
Adoptive Parent of Francisco Peguero. He can throw, he can run, he can hit(fastballs), and he's Dominican. What else do you need to know?
While I’m no fan of Damon Bruce, and I do like Dave Flemming, it seems to me that the Giants’ are looking for a more homeristic post game show. I don’t want to hear about how good Barry Zito looks after he loses twelve in a row!
Proud new dad of Edgardo errr Edgar Renteria!!!
Good for David B. Flemming
Not a fan of Damon Bruce. I am however a intrigued by Robert the Bruce
"One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women."-John McGraw, NY Giants Baseball Club
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
we’ll see. Flem taking phone calls from irate or exuberant callers should be interesting. at least he is a fan of the team, unlike Bruce.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Apr 11, 2009 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
i agree
sometimes damon is dumb, but i’m not sure i just want more of the company line after games.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 11, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I am sure that I want less Damon Bruce at all times
by FluLikeSymptoms on Apr 11, 2009 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
sometimes? When has he ever said something particularly intelligent, or at least interesting? He’s both opinionated, and rather ignorant of the sports he talks of: that is a horrible combination!
Adoptive Parent of Francisco Peguero. He can throw, he can run, he can hit(fastballs), and he's Dominican. What else do you need to know?
by haverecords on Apr 12, 2009 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I can't stand Damon Bruce
But I can’t stand even more the Giants dictating the manner in which they are covered by the media. Even if (actually, especially since) they’ve got an incestuous ownership relationship going.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
Bruce is the mlb.com poster of sports radio. I always expect him to break out a “GIANTS BRASS!!”
by Lars The Wanderer on Apr 11, 2009 10:34 AM PDT reply actions
rofl Damon Bruce.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 11, 2009 12:15 PM PDT reply actions
“Barbieri can go f*ck himself…”
/Sabean
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by SoFa King Mike on Apr 11, 2009 12:57 PM PDT reply actions
See with Bruce it’s more the anti-female, women’s sports stance that he so pathetically expounds – or expounded, I haven’t listened to him since.
If you don’t like women’s sports fine, but you don’t have to go on a 15 minute tirade against them, or yell rudely at callers who want to call in and talk about them. I think it was last year that the Stanford women were doing so well in the NCAA basketball tournament and someone called wanting to talk about it, and he was overwhelmingly obnoxious and rude to them.
If you don’t like to watch women’s sports fine: don’t watch. And don’t bad mouth something that keeps lots of kids out of trouble and also provides some with a college education.
I also recall him saying something once along the lines of how women should bring the men beer and food and then just go watch figure skating and let the men watch the game. Maybe it’s an act, but it’s an act that belongs in Alabama, not San Francisco.
/end rant
Agreed. He didn’t endear himself to me with anything he did and his Neanderthal attitude got old fast. After the wives softball game thing that got him banned from the clubhouse, I didn’t see him lasting that long on KNBR anyway.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 11, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
There are callers who want to talk about women's sports?
Are you sure they weren’t just trying to get a rise out of him? I don’t think I’ve ever heard women’s sports brought up by a caller.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
The Stanford incident that I remember was some Stanford student calling. He was all excited about the game coming up that week, or the next day or whatever. He wasn’t being antagonistic just really enthusiastic about his school getting so far in the tournament. I think it was the last year that Candace wuzzername played? [I don’t follow basketball men’s or women’s.] Bruce’s attitude was just annoying.
candice wiggins
and it was just last year…
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 12, 2009 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Anyone else notice what else Baggs wrote? The planned rotating trio of Sabes, Neukom and Baer on the Razor & Mr. T show has now been reduced to Neukom and Baer, with Sabean making “occasional” appearances. That’s Sabespeak for “I can only tolerate listening to Ralph’s long, whiny questions once in a blue moon.”
My plans for 2009: getting married and attending Tim Lincecum Bobblehead Day.
this bothers me a little...
you’re the gm of a professional baseball team. you have one of the coolest jobs in the world. you should be able to tolerate the local idiots in the media— they’re still your conduit to the fans, regardless of how dumb they ay sometimes be.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 12, 2009 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree, somewhat
All jokes about Ralph and Damon aside, it would be nice if the Giants front office weren’t so (apparently) thin-skinned when it comes to criticism—Larry Krueger, who was more knowledgable about baseball in general and the Giants in particular than anyone on the station before or since, was undone by one very poorly chosen phrase. Although, sadly, pro teams that partially or fully own their media outlets to help control the message…that’s par for the course.
My plans for 2009: getting married and attending Tim Lincecum Bobblehead Day.
Particularly since the criticism in the bay area is so sparse.
relative to the east coast and midwest, at any rate.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
Sabes and Ralph is better than than the dinner party episode of “The Office.”
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
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