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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, September 18, 2008
TBS announced today its broadcasting roster for its exclusive coverage of all four MLB League Division Series (LDS) and the American League Championship Series (ALCS). The play-by-play voices for the ALDS and NLDS will be “Sunday MLB on TBS” announcer Chip Caray, broadcaster Dick Stockton, Boston Red Sox play-by-play man Don Orsillo and Milwaukee Brewers announcer Brian Anderson. Along with these announcers, TBS announced that “Sunday MLB on TBS” analysts Ron Darling and Buck Martinez, Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and 16-year veteran broadcaster Joe Simpson, both returning to the network this postseason, along with former NL Cy Young Award winner and current Braves pitcher John Smoltz and two-time AL All-Star and veteran analyst Harold Reynolds.
In the studio for the ALDS and NLDS, host Ernie Johnson will be joined by Hall of Famers Cal Ripken and Dennis Eckersley as well current Detroit Tigers centerfielder Curtis Granderson. Also contributing to the ALDS and NLDS postseason coverage will be TBS MLB insider and Sports Illustrated baseball senior writer Tom Verducci, along with field reporters Craig Sager, Marc Fein and David Aldridge.
TBS’ exclusive ALCS coverage will be called by Caray (play-by-play), Darling (analyst) and Martinez (analyst), with an on-site studio team featuring Johnson (host), Ripken (analyst), Eckersley (analyst) and Reynolds (analyst). Sager will serve as a reporter for the ALCS, with an additional reporter assigned to cover the National League Championship Series (NLCS) to be announced at a later time.
Ripken in a studio team is the closest the Orioles are going to get to the ALCS for a loooong time. Oh, and Craig Sager shouldn’t be allowed on TV.
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1. tyler Posted: September 18, 2008 at 03:25 PM (#2946160)I find Sager to be both unwatchable and unlistenable, but he's infrequent.
Always nice to see Granderson getting face time.
I like former ESPNers Aldridge and Reynolds (on TV, at least).
Looks like it's going to be a "turn the TV sound down, find the game on the radio" postseason.
Just curious TVe. How was the Aldridge phase out in favor of increased Stephen A. Smith move considered within the walls there, because to me that was the most horrific sign of ESPN's shift from valuing noise over content?
Stockton and Harrelson were in the booth together when I first became conscious of baseball. I didn't notice if they were terrible or not, but I was less cynical when I was seven. Hell, I'm still less of a cynic than most of you. The one sportscaster that I recall people complaining about back then was Cosell.
I also like listening to Tony Gwynn. His analysis and his insights are both excellent.
ESPN's loss was Philly's gain. As Screamin' was phasing out of the Inquirer, Aldridge was phasing in. He's quite a good and intelligent writer.
And he does a hell of an impression of Eddie Murphy doing a nerdy white guy's voice.
After seven years of listening to him go into histrionics over medium-depth fly balls and ladle out generous portions of his faux old-timey shtick as the PBP voice of the Cubs, I've come by my Chippy animus honestly.
Yeah, there's something very irritating about Chip (besides his name, I mean). I always felt like he was possessed of a certain faux gravitas: he thought he was a certain kind of play-by-play guy (rock-solid, very sober, authoritative) and acted acoordingly, but he didn't really have it in him, and so he sounded a little hollow. You know how Bob Ley on ESPN appears to try really hard to come across as a "serious reporter," but just doesn't have the presence to pull it off? That's Chip--he comes across like an impersonator of a play-by-play guy. Maybe things have changed since he moved to Atlanta, but, uh, probably not.
Dick Stockton needs to be taken out behind the proverbial barn and shot. I have yet to hear a game in which he has been able to pronounce the names of the majority of the players on the field, remember who is batting and pitching most of the time, or report accurately on the players' backstories. He comes across as a man who has just woken up that morning after a five-year-nap and has been asked to do play-by-play sans prep. Awful.
Here's my question: where the heck is Al Leiter? I thought he was great during the playoffs in '03 and '04: he actually offered insight (especially concerning pitching, as one would expect), and had a much greater presence in the booth than most pros. In a world in which Joe Buck is the lead play-by-play guy for the U.S.'s two biggest sports (!!!), I suppose expecting excellence--or even competence--to be rewarded is too much to ask.
Dick Stockton needs to be taken out behind the literal barn and shot.
he's doing games for YES, where his main job is to point out what a dope Michael Kay is. But yes, he's still awesome.
You have obviously never listened to Stockton, who has been noted, needs to be shot.
This is exactly right. He obviously doesn't follow or care about baseball. Throw in his obsequious voice and you have a recipe for viewer rage.
Leslie Visser may resemble that remark
"Swung on...BELTED!"
I met that Dick once and yes...he had those distubing poached eggs under his eyes in person too.
Leslie's visserbility must have been awful the day they met.
When I found out they were married it ticked me off. I thought she was pretty foxy as a kid in the late 80s-early 90s. But she's pretty hideous now. Some chicks maintain that sex appeal even when they're too old for you to actually want to have sex with them. But she seems to actually look kinda like a female Dick Stockton now. Gross.
she's no Hannah Storm, that's for sure
(I hate it when players like Albert Belle and Albert Belle try to intimidate female reporters)
with friends like you, who needs animus?
The standard by which the attractiveness of all other female sports reporters are judged...and been deemed failures.
This isn't difficult.
Very well played.
But that's kinda what I'm saying: he is a big, goofy nerd, but he fights against it and tries to be sober play-by-play guy, and the result is bland and hollow. Len Kaspar, who I'm neutral-to-slightly-positive on (which, on a curve, would be an "A" given the total crapitude of most announcers), embraces his nerdiness and the result, though sometimes painfully lame, at least feels genuine.
Let's just agree that they're both light years better than Hawk f'ing Harrelson.
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