Worst baseball announcer?

[maveric]

My choice is Rick Sutcliffe, :puke:. Boring, droning, monotone, uninteresting, who'll spend 15 minutes explaining a grip on a split finger.

[tcfrogs]

1. Tim McCarver

annoying as hell. Not a fan of Joe Morgan's "broadcasting style" either - let's talk about Joe!

[maveric]

4. I like Joe.

He's crisp and knowledgeable. Makes the game interesting.

[underpants]

13. I like Joe Morgan but can't stand Joe Buck

He and McCarver OPENLY root for the Yankees, it is sickening.

[tcfrogs]

14. Wow, I love Joe Buck

I guess no one agrees with my opinions around here :(

[TSIAS]

20. I like him

He's become a versatile sports announcer. I enjoy both his baseball and NFL coverage on Fox.

[underpants]

25. He hates doing football

Not that he doesn't like football it's just that he has no downtime at all. I read that in an article about a year ago.

[salinen]

2. Jerry Coleman

in San Diego is too funny. He's a dino, but lovable.

[JohnKleeb]

5. One of the first games I had for PS1 was his voice

My dad swears to me he heard Coleman say "Napa batting" instead of now batting, I hear he makes mistakes like "Enos Carnell started out here in Houston and before that he was with the orioles" or something like that.

[maveric]

7. Coleman is great in a sad and funny way.

I'll try to find the site that has "Colemanisms". Various examples of butchering the english language.
He roomed with Mickey Mantle.

[maveric]

11. Check this site out. "Colemanisms"

http://www.funny2.com/coleman.htm

[JohnKleeb]

16. thanks that was good

[Tangledog]

37. Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen

I always heard that as following closely on Dave Winfield's head bouncing all the way back to second, but maybe it was a doctored tape or something. If I watched Dave Winfield's severed head roll 300 feet, I'd throw up too!

Ralph Kiner has come up with some real goodies over the years, too. But I always thought of Ralph as a good-natured drunk. Jerry Coleman is just plain weird.

Anybody here ever read that book The Poetry of Phil Rizzuto?

[Zomby Woof]

3. Bob Costas

Even when it's not a Yankees game, it is ALL THINGS YANKEES. :puke: He not only swallows Steinbrenner's wad, he wears the remnants on his chin as a souvenir, hoping Jeter will do a reach-around for him later. :puke: Fuck Costas! He is a twit.

[JohnKleeb]

6. ahhh yes, you are right

I hate it when the broadcasters do nothing but kiss the Yankees' asses.

[faithnotgreed]

9. man. i forgot about costas. im still thinking berman though.

[miss_kitty]

36. man hands down Costas-you got that right

totally. i hate listening to that asshat when seattle plays the yankees. i turn the tv down and listen to the local guys calling the game on the radio-i do that for most the Ms games-but i have not really watched in a long long time...

[Zomby Woof]

45. as a longtime former Seattle resident

I hear you loud and beyond clear. :-)

(Dave Niehaus is the best!)

[faithnotgreed]

8. hands down! chris berman. never ever shuts up and those puns?

sheesh

i love joe morgan, jon miller (good, plus hes on our side!)

joe garagiola, basically anyone from the 70s

[JohnKleeb]

12. Jon Miller is great

I loved listening to WBAL when I was real young, too bad he left for San Francisco after '95, another mistake by Peter F'ing Angelos.

[faithnotgreed]

18. i loved how he kept referring to kerry

when they did that sunday night boston game that kerry showed up at. and the cameramen kept showing kerry throughout the game which was cool.

at least someone in the media is on our side! he & joe are a good team

[JohnKleeb]

23. he was very cool to him

Ive liked Jon since he was the Baltimore aunnocer with Chuck Thompson on the radio now that was a great team, Thompson has so much history behind him, he's the guy who called Maz's game winning shot against the Yankees in 1960. Now Al Michaels :puke:, I cant stand any sport he does.

[Zomby Woof]

22. I like Berman as a recap/highlight person

I admit I have a weakness for his bombast and cheesy puns. Plus, he was biased for the Chargers when they were doing well a few years ago, and since most announcers only kiss the ass of the frontrunners, that made me happy.

But as an announcer, I agree he is low in my rankings. I much prefer he stick to NFL Primetime-type work. He is the Fred Flintstone of sportscasters, and how bad can that be? ;-)

[faithnotgreed]

27. i love fred flintstone. so yeah, lets have berman

stick to the inside of the studio. that way i can have the sound on when the playoffs start next month

you know what it comes down to? he spends so much time on these side comments and giving people ENDLESS silly nicknames that we miss part of the game as its going on or the replays

again, ill take joe morgan and jon miller. hes got a pretty cool sense of humor, but he also knows that it should be in limited amounts. so he can be silly but hes got real sense too, and he clearly encourages joe to give his good insight.

[Lindsay]

10. You haven't heard worst

unless you heard Davey Nelson when he announced Indians games on the radio. Nice man, but he talked so slow he was always about three plays behind.

[StevieM]

15. Hands down, Kenny Albert.....

And I think that Joe Morgan and Jon Miller are easily the best. I love those two.

Steve

[likesmountains 52]

17. I always liked Steve Stone on WGN.

We don't get it on our cable anymore, don't know if he's even still announcing. And, I agree that Joe Morgan talks too much.

[tcfrogs]

19. Stone is back on WGN & all Cubs games

But his partner, Chip Caray, is not good.

[faithnotgreed]

21. youre right - chip caray! can i choose 3 worst?

chris berman
chip caray
bob costas

my final list i think

[welshTerrier2]

24. Joe Morgan gets my vote

i've listened to him do ballgames where he gets so busy telling his stupid stories that 2 or 3 innings go by without a comment from Joe on what's happening on the field ...

[name not needed]

26. Bob Costas

nuff said.

[salinen]

28. I really miss Don Drysdale

with the White Sox. He was so goofy.

[St. Jarvitude]

29. Hawk Harrelson and DARIN Jackson

So. Frigging. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooring.

"You can put it on the board......... yes" and "He gone" get really, really old after a while.

Steve Stone provides some of the greatest insight into the game of baseball in all of television broadcasting.

[tcfrogs]

30. Darrin Jackson

Darrell is a WR for the Seahawks.

[St. Jarvitude]

33. Damn! I knew I should never trust my White Sox fan friends

I knew there was something wrong.

I know all about Darrell Jackson ... he's on my Fantasy league team.

[JohnKleeb]

31. yep on Harrelson

I used to watch WGN Sox games to past the time as a little kid and he really was annoying.

[faithnotgreed]

32. your quotes are good. put me right there at the game

he gone....yes!

[Cocoa]

41. but it's fun when there's tension between them

I loved when Hawk went off on DJ for not talking enough. It was a classic. :-)

[RebelYell]

34. Ernie Harwell

Tiger games. On an AM radio in the garage. Blech. Another bad childhood memory.

[Tangledog]

35. The Careys are a bad gene pool

Listening to Harry Carey was like watching your neighbor take a whiz in your kid's sandbox. I give him a lot of credit for a century of crappy baseball teams in Chicago. Skip is just boring, that's all. (The other Chicago team had some real bottom-feeders, too.)

The current radio guys for the Red Sox are a disgrace to the Gowdy/Martin/Coleman/Woods tradition. I can't even bear to listen to them.

I like Jon & Joe a lot. Agreed, Joe talks too much, but I've never heard him say anything ignorant.

For years, the Phillies have had Harry Kalas and Chris Wheeler, who are superb; so was Andy Musser, who retired a few years back. I used to listen to them up here in Connecticut when the Phillies had some brutal teams, just because they were so good. Then the franchise gutted the radio network, and I can't even hear the Phillies on the Jersey Shore.

Old Bob Murphy, with the Mets, was great to listen to. He was about as mellow as you can get -- which is kind of amazing (forgive the expression) when you consider that the team has often been pretty unpleasant.

[maveric]

38. I loved Ken Coleman, Ned Martin and Mel Parnell, during the 60's.

Who are the Sox broadcast guys now?

[Tangledog]

39. Joe Castiglione and Lenny Trupiano

Castiglione was the #2 radio guy during Ken C's last years with the team. They were a good pair, but he and Trupiano goad each other into making sarcastic comments and running them into the ground. In fact, I'm not even sure if Trupiano is still there, I listen to the radio so rarely these days.

Yeah, Mel Parnell. He showed up at an "old-timers'" event a few years back and took a couple of innings at the mike. He really sounded great! I think he didn't enjoy the job all that much when he had it, and he "retired" after a few years, but now that there's no pressure, he sounded more relaxed than ever, and even more insightful.

[faithnotgreed]

40. yes - bob murphy was a good man. also love ralph kiner

can still remember kiners korner on tv after the mets games. he sounds just the same too.

[fameless]

42. Anyone on YES.

hands down.

[faithnotgreed]

48. im with you fameless. michael kay needs to go find other work = see ya!

oh how i hate when he says that...

[peekaloo]

43. Milo Hamilton

in between stories of what he had for lunch, his personal opinions of opposing players and reminiscing about his career he sometimes mentions the game being played in front of him.

[Bluebear]

44. Chris Berman and his stupid puns

When he came up with "Kol Midre Cummings" that was it for me.

[Zomby Woof]

46. The puns RULE

Ever since he came up with Bert "Be Home" Blyleven in the 80's, I have been hooked. :P

[Tangledog]

47. John "Tonight, Let It Be" Loewenstein :) n/t