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Post by Chris on Nov 13, 2008 13:10:42 GMT -5
Flaherty is the worst one.
Leiter is National Prime Time broadcast material...he's that good.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 13, 2008 13:40:54 GMT -5
Look, I think Leiter is good. I like him myself, he is so much better than the others in that crowded booth. But he talks WAAAAYYYY too much, acts like a know-it-all, and is totally developing that reputation around baseball already. He comes across like he knows more than anyone who has ever played the game.
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Post by MSBNYY on Nov 13, 2008 13:43:27 GMT -5
Sounds perfect! See McCarver, Tim and Morgan, Joe.
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Post by Chris on Nov 13, 2008 13:43:37 GMT -5
"acts like a know-it-all"
Compared to Kay and Flaherty, he does.
Yeah, he's a bit verbose, but his takes are always spot on. How can someone talk TOO much when pretty much everything he says is relevant and adds meaning to the broadcast....and in an entertaining way to boot.
What do you want....a return to the old Rizzuto / White booth with extended periods of dead air?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 13, 2008 13:52:12 GMT -5
The only reason you noticed dead-air back then was cause they did not need to fill every opening with an ad from the Lowe's Broadcast booth for the next Centerstage interview, or any other ad they feel like cramming in to kill half the broadcast.
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Post by Chris on Nov 13, 2008 14:14:59 GMT -5
Your new sig-pic is MUCH better suited for workplace viewing. You look a bit like Eric Bana in "Chopper"
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Post by $heriff Tom on Nov 13, 2008 14:33:50 GMT -5
Yeah, i should have been more scant on my last pic especially.
Check out my old flip- Suicidal cap. And that SOD shirt is still home in a drawer, 16 years after I bought it at a live show around this time of year, 1992.
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Post by Chris on Nov 13, 2008 14:45:56 GMT -5
Like the hat - that is straight-up L.A. skater-punk style, circa mid-to-late 80s.
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Post by Furious D on Apr 4, 2009 20:22:14 GMT -5
I cought a little bit of the Yankee Postgame highlights as I was driving in the car with my son today and I can honestly say I feel embarrassed for John Sterling. I got to hear his new catch phrases for Texeira home runs. After hearing the first, I was hoping it was a one time thing, but the second HR had an identical call. It went a little something like this:
It is High, It is Far, It is Gone! A Tex message into the second deck in right! You're on the mark! Texeira!
Maybe that is why my son threw up a little while later.
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Post by 9 on Apr 4, 2009 21:00:11 GMT -5
Tex message?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 5, 2009 9:14:06 GMT -5
Thats absolutely inane.
Well, he'll only bring that wretched call out 40 or more times these next few monts.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Apr 5, 2009 10:25:01 GMT -5
I got sick to my stomach listening to it..... He must spend all winter working on this crap.
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Post by Chris on Apr 16, 2009 14:57:44 GMT -5
I was bit dismayed that XM radio only gives me the WCBS 880 Yankees broadcast for home Yankee games.
7 innings in, and now I wish I had NO Yankees WCBS 880 broadcasts.
I think Sterling must be painfully aware of the criticism that Waldman gets...because apparently he feels the need to qualify every sentence she utters with an "I agree with that."
And oh the the way, the sugar-coating of Yankee failures from both Sterling and Waldman is now at an all-time hight.
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Post by 9 on Apr 16, 2009 17:57:41 GMT -5
How could they possibly have sugar-coated today's ass whupping?
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Post by Chris on Apr 16, 2009 18:01:36 GMT -5
On an individual player level, I meant.
Coke, apparently is pitching "fabulously."
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Post by MSBNYY on Apr 17, 2009 6:05:47 GMT -5
It's hard to listen to Sterling and Waldman too long without wanting to stab yourself in the eye with a pen. I can't imagine any team in baseball having worse radio announcers.
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Post by Chris on Apr 17, 2009 12:23:56 GMT -5
They truly are annoying because....
I'll be honest, there are a lot of superficial things at play here. John Sterling does not appear very "sportsman-like." From his looks, he'd be better suited hosting a show like Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous with his double-breasted suits and his ascots and handkerchiefs. He actually looks a bit like Robin Leach.
Waldman is a woman...and let's face it, women are already playing from a weak hand in that there are preconceived notions that they know nothing about sports. And Waldman, in fact, does not appear to know much about baseball. She does an adequate job in reporting about players off the field issues, injury status, etc. But she really has ZERO analysis skills (which is only SLIGHTLY worse than Sterling's) and she plays the Yankee Lore And Legend card to evoke knee-jerk emotional responses in the audience WAY TOO MUCH.
They are terrible. Waldman and Sterling remind of when you go to a Super Bowl party and some guy brings a girlfriend who knows nothing about football....but to fit in she fains excitement and whoops and hollers at inappropriate times just because she doesn't know any better.
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Post by Chris on Apr 17, 2009 12:58:31 GMT -5
In other agonizing Sterling news... Apparently he's abandoned the "Positively DAMONic" call for "A JOHNNY ROCKET by Damon." (and agonizingly followed up by a back to back TEX MESSAGE)
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Post by joetee316 on Apr 17, 2009 13:06:46 GMT -5
I just heard the "Tex message, on the Mark" announcement live. AWFUL! AWFUL! And Suzyn Waltman made me cringe numerous times yesterday and I didn't even have to look at her. She irritates me so much more than Sterling. I want to punch her in the face.... numerous times. He is somewhat tolerable.
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Post by 9 on Apr 18, 2009 10:47:17 GMT -5
A Johnny Rocket? Jesus Christ.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Apr 18, 2009 11:23:56 GMT -5
You're on the Mark, Texiera
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Post by baldvinny on May 4, 2009 7:54:40 GMT -5
i just learned today that Sterling's real name is Harold Moskowitz
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 4, 2009 8:05:01 GMT -5
He totally looks like a Harold Moskowitz.
I have to admit that I found Sterling and Waldman minorly tolerable last weekend. Did a lot of radio listening outside, including the entire Sunday night game. After a while they sounded like old pals to me. Im not delusional, they are still overly bombastic, Waldmans voice is grating, the homer calls are just a joke. I was surprised there were not as many in-game ads as I remembered.
While I am not waving the banner for this radio team, I would pick them over watching a broadcast called by Joe Morgan and John Miller anytime.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 4, 2009 8:19:24 GMT -5
He looks like a drunk ass.
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Post by 9 on May 4, 2009 11:50:26 GMT -5
While I am not waving the banner for this radio team, I would pick them over watching a broadcast called by Joe Morgan and John Miller anytime. That's not setting the bar very high. Joe Morgan is a douche.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 4, 2009 12:11:18 GMT -5
Picking Sterling and Waldman over Joe Morgan and John Miller is like choosing getting kicked in the balls over getting stabbed in the asshole.
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 4, 2009 12:43:25 GMT -5
Even worse is that Steve Phillips. He stinks, too.
Sterling reminds me of home, so I tolerate it. But he is downright cringe-inducing.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 4, 2009 12:48:17 GMT -5
Look at a picture of the Empire State Building. I can't understand how the most storied franchise in all of sports has announcers this bad.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 4, 2009 12:48:33 GMT -5
Sterling brings some familiarity, and in the past I HAVE liked his work. This partnership now with Waldman is doom on dung. But Sterling on the Yankee mic and I go back to friggin' 1989! There is a lot of comfort hearing him call a game, laugh if you will.
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 4, 2009 12:56:20 GMT -5
Yeah...I mean, remember him with Jay Johnstone? Didn't seem so bad back then, even though Johnstone was nuts.
Sterling and Joe Angel, too. Angel has been doing Orioles games for years, so I'm always harkened back when I hear an O's game on the XM.
Sterling goes back so far that the last guys on the radio before hiim were Hank Greenwald and Tommy Hutton. I was in junior high when Greenwald was doing the games.
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