Hey hey, ho ho, Buck & McCarver's got to go.

[scdemandred]

Every Baseball postseason, I simultaneously look forward to the drama of the playoffs while dreading the encroachment of mediocre Network broadcasters into the television play-by-play game calling.

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[pewtey]

I agree mostly with your analysis, although I would toss in the San Diego announcers as being bottom feeders of the baseball broadcasting world. Their play-by-play is adequate, but their bias is so strong that it completely taints their job as broadcasters. Hometown bias is to be expected, but not so much as so call names or make snide comments when your team gets snubbed on a call, etc.

Recently Vin Scully and John Wooden sat down for a televised interview in front of an audience to raise money for children's charities. One of the questions TJ Simers (a fantastically terrible performance in his own right, but that's another story) asked Scully: Are you a Dodgers fan? A terrible question to ask one of the most revered broadcasters ever to take the mic, for sure. Scully could have answered it correctly many ways, but chose his answer simply: no. Surely that line broke many hearts in Los Angeles from fans who can't imagine Scully as anything but the most ardent Dodgers fan next to Tommy Lasorda, but there you have it.

Regarding John Miller. I'll confess I haven't listened to Miller much on the radio. For obvious reasons most of my experience with him comes from ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball which he co-hosts with Joe Morgan. There's something about MIller though that I really just don't like. It's hard to pinpoint it exactly; perhaps it's the lame jokes/comments he makes, perhaps it's merely his cadence which just seems off, if only by a little. I actually like Joe Morgan as the color man, though his analyses seem to go from good to mediocre, never great, and always seem a little choppy. I'll agree that Miller is a GOOD announcer, and my dislike for his style has nothing to do with the fact he's a Giants announcer; I only realized that after seeing him on ESPN.