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Tuesday, March 07, 2023

‘Bush League!’ Radio Announcer Destroys Arizona Diamondbacks in Hilarious Slow Burn of a Rant for Not Providing Info About Their Players

However, when they arrived for the contest against the Giants, the Diamondbacks did not furnish Miller with a roster of the players they brought for the game. The long-time broadcaster, best known as the voice of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball in the late ’90s and early 2000’s, did not hold back words about Arizona’s management.

“I have to guess the D-Backs decided ‘the heck with the big leagues; let’s just not be a big-league team for the split-squad,’” Miller said. “They have sent no public relations people over here, no information about who the manager is or anything at all about it.”

“If they don’t want to be a big-league team, we’ll just treat them like a sandlot team. They gave us no information about anything. So, one of those guys in a red shirt is managing, and one of their right-handers on the mound,” he said.

RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: March 07, 2023 at 03:38 PM | 22 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Russlan is not Russian Posted: March 07, 2023 at 10:32 PM (#6119881)
Jon Miller is excellent. I don't get to watch him much now hut he used to be fun to listen to back when I had a shot to do so.
   2. Walt Davis Posted: March 07, 2023 at 11:16 PM (#6119889)
Did it get funnier or is the excerpt the height of the burn? If it did, it's not in the article. Not that Miller (a great broadcaster) doesn't have a right to be annoyed but start calling them Roy's Auto Mart; refer to Alek Thomas as "Al whose mom woks at the Safeway". Something -- treat em like a sandlot team.
   3. Howie Menckel Posted: March 07, 2023 at 11:19 PM (#6119891)
the criticism by Miller is absolutely fair.

but the viewers don't care, Jon.

If you find out an hour before the game that the other team has dropped the ball (so to speak), then either you get your ass out of your chair or your staff does.

by game time, the viewers should be supplied with the info they need.

if you want to make a dig in mid-game about your gripe - hell, it's only spring training so you have a long leash.

but Jon - it's not about you.

he's a great broadcaster, but he seems to me to be tone deaf here as far as the audience who actually work for a living.

I would be surprised if he does not issue a Wednesday apology - and I'll be disappointed if he doesn't.

#outoftouch
   4. It's regretful that PASTE was able to get out Posted: March 08, 2023 at 12:31 AM (#6119901)
I love me some Jon Miller, always have, but could you imagine Vin Scully ever doing anything like this? Tear someone a new ####### off the air, maybe, I don't know. Grouchily try to embarrass the whole organization on the air, no way in hell.
   5. tell me when i'm telling 57i66135 Posted: March 08, 2023 at 09:21 AM (#6119920)
I love me some Jon Miller, always have, but could you imagine Vin Scully ever doing anything like this? Tear someone a new ####### off the air, maybe, I don't know. Grouchily try to embarrass the whole organization on the air, no way in hell.
vin scully isn't the only standard for class and excellence in baseball broadcasting.
   6. tell me when i'm telling 57i66135 Posted: March 08, 2023 at 09:46 AM (#6119921)
vin scully isn't the only standard for class and excellence in baseball broadcasting.
which isn't to say that vin scully is anything less than GOATed.
   7. McCoy Posted: March 08, 2023 at 09:51 AM (#6119922)
Eh, whatever. It's spring training and nobody is watching anyhow. At least this gives some viewers a chuckle and something to talk about.
   8. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick Posted: March 09, 2023 at 01:49 PM (#6120036)
vin scully isn't the only standard for class and excellence in baseball broadcasting.

Yeah, but Earl got a big time assist from Alice Sweet.
   9. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: March 10, 2023 at 05:46 PM (#6120099)
Yeah, but Earl got a big time assist from Alice Sweet.

I actually named a character in one of my novels Alice Sweet. It's a good name.
   10. cardsfanboy Posted: March 10, 2023 at 06:34 PM (#6120100)
deleted.
   11. Ron J Posted: March 10, 2023 at 07:26 PM (#6120105)
#9 You're on the short list of people here I wouldn't have picked as a novelist. (or even aspiring novelist)
   12. cardsfanboy Posted: March 10, 2023 at 08:19 PM (#6120107)
#9 You're on the short list of people here I wouldn't have picked as a novelist. (or even aspiring novelist)


I just assume everyone is an aspiring novelist. Why wouldn't they be?
   13. tell me when i'm telling 57i66135 Posted: March 10, 2023 at 08:21 PM (#6120108)
I just assume everyone is an aspiring novelist. Why wouldn't they be?
because the passive income is better if you write short form furry incest porn, instead?
   14. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick Posted: March 10, 2023 at 08:48 PM (#6120109)
I actually named a character in one of my novels Alice Sweet. It's a good name.

And Earl said she was a real tomato.
   15. cardsfanboy Posted: March 10, 2023 at 08:56 PM (#6120111)
because the passive income is better if you write short form furry incest porn, instead?


well there is that... (I'm into writing comic books personally, but I could do some furry porn, not sure about the incest part. :) My furries are usually a fox hooking up with a raccoon, so I doubt the incest part.)
   16. tell me when i'm telling 57i66135 Posted: March 10, 2023 at 09:09 PM (#6120115)
well there is that... (I'm into writing comic books personally, but I could do some furry porn, not sure about the incest part. :) My furries are usually a fox hooking up with a raccoon, so I doubt the incest part.)
polyamory is also a popular genre. the more the merrier.

oh, and don't forget self-cest, if you want to scratch your sci-fi cockles.
   17. cardsfanboy Posted: March 10, 2023 at 09:15 PM (#6120116)
oh, and don't forget self-cest, if you want to scratch your sci-fi cockles.


sounds painful.
   18. Starring Bradley Scotchman as RMc Posted: March 11, 2023 at 09:41 AM (#6120149)
#9 You're on the short list of people here I wouldn't have picked as a novelist. (or even aspiring novelist)

I just assume everyone is an aspiring novelist. Why wouldn't they be?


Why not, indeed? I've actually written six novels, with two more in the hopper. (I have no illusions about getting them published, tho; I write 'em just for fun.)
   19. SoSH U at work Posted: March 11, 2023 at 09:58 AM (#6120153)
Why not, indeed? I've actually written six novels, with two more in the hopper.


Two here, plus one play. All collecting digital dust on my hard drive.

I did get my first nonfiction book published this year though, which is nice.
   20. McCoy Posted: March 11, 2023 at 02:10 PM (#6120187)
I've written like 1.2 books but haven't written anything in like 20 odd years. My first and only "book" can still be found on the web. Somebody downloaded and collected a whole bunch of text files on AOL and then packeged them up for aspiring website builders to use to fluff up their site. I'm not sure the logic of it but that's what some website owner said when i first discovered my book on a strange website like 10 years after i wrote it.
   21. John Reynard Posted: March 13, 2023 at 03:37 AM (#6120286)
Anyone who has a book to "publish" can just dump it out on Amazon now and with even a little lite promotion you'd get a few hundred sales I'm sure. Don't pay Amazon to promote you though unless their terms have changed. It seemed like they were setting it up to make sure they made money if they promoted you and if you didn't....too bad.
   22. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick Posted: March 13, 2023 at 11:33 AM (#6120297)
In 1991 I wrote a short story** on a Bizarro World time travel World Series between the 1910 Philadelphia A's and the 1989 Oakland A's, with games 1, 2, and 6 in Oakland's 1989, and games 3, 4, and 5 in the Philadelphia of 1910, along with a game 7 in Comiskey Park in 1933, all games being played under the rules and travel conditions / accommodations of their respective years. A friend sent it to Tim Kurkjian and I gave a copy to the Washington Post's book critic Jonathan Yardley, both of whom loved it, but given its complete lack of PC and language restraints I never thought much about getting it published. It would've made for a great movie, but obviously by the time Hollywood got through with it, its bowdlerization would've made Roald Dahl's revised works seem positively daring by comparison. It now sits on my computer as a Word document, with Jose Canseco having the final word, but I had a blast writing it.

** Field of Schemes, long before any other book or story had come up with the same title.

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