Your favorite sports announcers
Muddy
USA
Well we just lost Vin Scully at 94 yesterday, RIP. A man a lot of people consider the greatest baseball announcer to ever live. I always thought it was so cool that this guy calling Brooklyn Dodger games back in 1950 you could hear calling Los Angeles Dodger games as late as 2016. You really felt like you were in a time trip to another era when you heard his voice and had such a sing song poetic way of talking, so many big time calls too, Mookie, Kirk Gibson, Hank Aaron 715 etc. It got me thinking what were some of the best announcers out there for me be it past or present, Scully was definitely one of the all time greats.
Bob Uecker- Milwaukee Brewers announcer. Just one of my favorite humans period, so God damn funny. They know what a gift they have in Milwaukee and you here is voice calling the game in the stadium while your at the game there. He’s pretty much is the last of the Mohicans, still going strong though. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h7dG5HCKeW…
Bob Costas- I heard him doing a subway series game just last week. He’s gotta do more baseball I forget how great he is.
Al Michaels- Football, Baseball, Olympic Hockey circa 1980 whatever I’m a huge Al Michaels fan.
Jon Miller- used to do Sunday night baseball for awhile. I think he’s the best day in day out at it in the game. He does radio for the SF Giants now so I don’t hear him as much as I used to.
How about for you guys?
Bob Uecker- Milwaukee Brewers announcer. Just one of my favorite humans period, so God damn funny. They know what a gift they have in Milwaukee and you here is voice calling the game in the stadium while your at the game there. He’s pretty much is the last of the Mohicans, still going strong though. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h7dG5HCKeW…
Bob Costas- I heard him doing a subway series game just last week. He’s gotta do more baseball I forget how great he is.
Al Michaels- Football, Baseball, Olympic Hockey circa 1980 whatever I’m a huge Al Michaels fan.
Jon Miller- used to do Sunday night baseball for awhile. I think he’s the best day in day out at it in the game. He does radio for the SF Giants now so I don’t hear him as much as I used to.
How about for you guys?
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The baseball legends of the 60’s and 70’s
Besides Scully, there’s Jack Buck, Bob Prince, Ernie Harwell, Harry Kalas. You could lay in bed at night with a little radio and get the 50,000 watt clear channel stations and listen to baseball.
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Figueroa will be getting better now that CA has lifted the loitering with intent law
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miggs : "Let The Games Begin" starring LINDSAY LOHAN (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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He lived a good life, and was a genuine decent man.
R.I.P. Vin Scully
The one I can’t stand at the moment is that woke-ish cocksucker Chris Collinsworth – I liked him as a player and at-first as an announcer the way he’d break-down-plays; but then he started getting a little woke-ish and now I can’t stand to listen to his ass.
Back in the day I used to like watching the Tour De France but lost the habit of watching-it in the last few years – but I like Phil Liggett who has been announcing The Tour for the last 50-years.
I caught him near the end of his career but Hank Stram probably impressed me the most. He had the insight of being a very successful coach and could almost always tell you what play was coming before it happened.
On a lesser local scale, former Browns QB Bernie Kosar who did Browns preseason games had insights similar to Stram.
nfl: ian eagle
nhl: rick jeanneret
But my all-time favorite? Gary Thorne. When ESPN got hockey back, I was so stoked, hoping they'd bring him back. It didn't happen. Lame.
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Vin Scully calling the Dodgers
Dick Enberg doing the Rams
Chick Hearn, voice of the Lakers
Bob Miller, Kings announcer
even Trevor Denman doing the calls from Hollywood Park
The Murderer's Row of city announcing. Has never and will never be beaten.
And I remember Dick Enberg talking to Vin Scully and he made a point where there was a time before TV, fans only had the radio if they were not at the game. So you had to be awesome. And I think that generation was just something else, there just this old time charm with those guys, that I don't know these guys coming up just don't really seem to have.
I enjoy college basketball - and I enjoy Bill Raftery and Grant Hill calling the games.
I am no fan of Joe Buck. He comes off as almost entitled and less appreciative of the games he’s calling.
mlb: gary cohen, ron darling and keith hernendez - ny mets. it's frustrating but fun at the same time to try and figure who is speaking as both darling and hernandez both have voices that sound exactly alike.
My all time favorite would have to be John Madden due to the sheer passion and enthusiasm he brought to the calls. Locally we have a Bengals radio guy named Dave Lapham that brings the same type of passion but he's not quite on Madden's level.
As for baseball, the long time Cincinnat Reds duo of Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhaul will always be my personal gold standard. Don't get me wrong, Vin Scully was better but my summers from the time I was about 5 years old until Nuxhall retired revolved around listening to Marty and Joe call Reds games. When the games were on TV we would always have the volume off on the TV and the radio on 700WLW to listen to their call. Even at the games you would hear people throughout the stadium listening to them call the game on battery operated radios.
the mets used to have a player that was a fast base runner named chico walker. kiner had me fall on the floor with this: "chico sure doesn't need a walker because he sure can run."
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