Jon Miller: The Most Interesting Man In The World
Great article. Would love to hear his profane Vin Scully impression.
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Awesome
Jon may be #1 on the list of people that I’d like to have a beer with.
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis.
I had no idea Miller was so eccentric away from the mic. He seems to be the definition of a Renaissance Man.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
This is why Jon Miller is awesome
“There were all kinds of crazy stories about him, how he’d sit on his roof for hours on a clear night, listening to the Giants game on radio, looking into the distance at the lights of Candlestick Park. He was kind of a strange kid.”
My Son. Dude hits inside the parkers and takes walks.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
I am a Bochy hater and a Sabean apologist.
He talked about a lot of this stuff in his book. I really look forward to a next one, as that one came out very early in his Giants career.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 20, 2010 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Bochy’s first season in SF, I went to one of the season-ticket holder pre-season roundtable chats with Sabes, Jon Miller, and Flannery.
I asked Mr. Miller at the conclusion: When is the next book man?
He looked a bit startled and said something along the lines of “getting one done was quite an accomplishment for me”….
but, yes, another volume would be fab
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jul 21, 2010 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
as much as I love Jon Miller
that book sucks. I was very, very disappointed.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Awesome
The Giants may not have won a World Series in over 50 years, but unlike the Cubs we are lucky as fans to have great announcers. I hope Kruk and Kuik make it someday and can go in together.
"Triple A baseball isn’t very good. I’m going to tell you that right now. Especially from a pitching standpoint. Anybody who can pitch is in the big league." -BS
"YOU'RE A PAIN IN MY ASS! STOP BEING THAT" - Mel Gibson
First ever dual induction speech
“Well, what do you think, partner?”
“We’re going to make this our dodge quality induction of the day!”
“And why not?”
My Son. Dude hits inside the parkers and takes walks.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
I am a Bochy hater and a Sabean apologist.
I wanna see them hold up a pic of Ty Cobb
And eliminate that motherfucker.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
by hairball on Jul 20, 2010 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Krukow: No surprise here on the Dodge quality induction of the day, partner you put on a show in batting practice.
Kuiper: Off day coming up, maybe we can catch our induction speech in a movie theater.
"Triple A baseball isn’t very good. I’m going to tell you that right now. Especially from a pitching standpoint. Anybody who can pitch is in the big league." -BS
"YOU'RE A PAIN IN MY ASS! STOP BEING THAT" - Mel Gibson
by Giant Torture on Jul 20, 2010 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Typo
Sorry, that’s a rough typo to make, no offense meant. Thanks for pointing it out.
"Triple A baseball isn’t very good. I’m going to tell you that right now. Especially from a pitching standpoint. Anybody who can pitch is in the big league." -BS
"YOU'RE A PAIN IN MY ASS! STOP BEING THAT" - Mel Gibson
by Giant Torture on Jul 20, 2010 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
That was a really well-written piece
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
I think GRM must be Jenkins b/c sometimes I can’t stand either of them and some times I totally get what they are saying.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jul 20, 2010 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed
Jenkins is on a roll. He wrote a sound anti-DH article this week too.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
This is some great stuff
And he married his babysitter?!
"I never watched baseball on TV. It's slow and boring. I'm not a fan. Never was." - Jeff Kent
FREE POSEY IS FREE
Be careful with that. To clarify, for somebody that didn’t read the article, he married a woman that is 5 years older than him and used to babysit him when he was in junior high. He did not divorce his first wife and marry the much younger girl who was babysitting his own kid.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Credit where credit is due, this is a really nice piece by old Brucie Jenkins.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I was just going to write the same thing.
A pleasant, well-written article. He should stick to this type of work rather than advocating for Crappy Player X.
/auto-defenestrates
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 21, 2010 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Miller's Scully Impression Trifecta
Regular, Japanese & Spanish (No blue version unfortunately)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWzhMhTcYnw
Miller starts @ 1:21
That. Was. AWESOME.
Better than a Farmer John variety sausage. (Although the first 1:17 is painful.)
I left my swagger in my other pants.
I know an O's fan who says Miller leaving the O's is one of the two or three worst things..
…to happen to the Orioles since he became a fan, and that it was the first sign Peter Angelos was an asshole who was going to ruin the franchise.
some guy wrote this on csnbayarea.com
I don’t understand how you can hype the heck out of an interview with Jon Miller on his Hall of Fame induction and then do such a short, sorry 3 minutes each night. 2-part series? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! I’ve only lived in this area about a year-and-a-half but this is one of the most pathetic, shyster journalism pieces I’ve ever seen. Are you always this phony with your programming? Does Jon have an agreement that he can’t be interviewed for more than 3 minutes? You need some excuse like that for this shoddy, over-hyped 2-PART SERIES. You all need to go back to college and study how to be ethical in what you say to the public on the airwaves. Your professionalism and credibility need a major overhaul because right now they’re on the same level as that person on the corner waving a sign.
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