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Thom Brennaman, welcome to the unemployment line

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by wicked, Aug 19, 2020.

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  1. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I've grown up listening to Denny Matthews.
    I'm very lucky.
     
    Chef2, Aug 24, 2020
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  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I grew up listening to Phil Rizzuto, and he's beloved, even to me.

    But he'd spend an inning talking about a cannoli he had eaten somewhere in North Jersey, presumably so the owner of the bakery would keep giving him free food, and in the mean time there would be a merry-go-round spinning around the bases.

    It's pretty funny how much of a pass he got. I don't know how many warning track fly balls he called as home runs only to have to correct himself. But when John Sterling, who I can't stand, does that on the radio, I curse him in 12 different languages.

    Welcome to my world when I was younger.

     
    The Big Ragu, Aug 24, 2020
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  3. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    I miss the Scooter. Voice of the Yankees from the day I was born.

    I miss the Lindsey Nelson / Ralph Kiner of the Mets-in-the-Wilderness years too. Lots of

    'That ball is way back . . . way back . . . aaaaaaaaaaand Mike Jorgenson gloves it just behind first base.'
     
    Azrael, Aug 24, 2020
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  4. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    I vividly recall a Mets-Dodgers game in Los Angeles on WOR in 1988. Mike Marshall got ahold of one during a growing Dodgers rally and Kiner starts with, "Thats a high fly ball to deep right field and that ball is, gone!"

    Then the ball drops into Darryl Strawberry's glove in front of that short, powder blue wall.

    "That'll do it for the Dodgers here in the fifth and now a message from Manufacturer's Hanover."
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Aug 24, 2020
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  5. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    And to think, Yankee fans have been stuck with John Sterling, Suzyn Waldman and Michael Kay for a quarter-century.
     
    goalmouth, Aug 24, 2020
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  6. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    The Mets have long had the better broadcast teams.
     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Aug 24, 2020
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  7. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    Gotta have the better something, I suppose ...
     
    Regan MacNeil, Aug 24, 2020
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  8. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    So, obvious by now they're not going to fire him?
     
    Mngwa, Aug 24, 2020
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  9. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Both of us are, Chef. Just about every time I listen to Denny, I learn something.

    One of the things I like about Matthews is he never has a multiple orgasm on the air. Rarely a single one, either. It's refreshing.
     
    Liut, Aug 24, 2020
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  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I still think of Sterling first as a Braves announcer. Sterling, Skip Caray, Ernie Johnson and Pete Van Wieren for radio and The SuperStation. Damn I'm old.
     
    playthrough, Aug 24, 2020
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  11. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I was watching the game on TV on Friday Night, and the mrs. asked me to run to the store for her......So I get in my car, and as I do, they're talking about the homerun that Sano hit. Lefebvre and Stewart were making it sound like he hit the son of a bitch to Iowa. It was a shot that he hit off the Hall of Fame exhibit in left-center. And they were all three (Denny-Lefebvre-Stewart) going on about how they had never seen a ball hit there and all this and all that.........then Denny chimes in with "It's still only worth 1 run."
     
    Chef2, Aug 24, 2020
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  12. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Sterling was the Nets pxp guy in the 70s and he had a show on WMCA. People would call in to yank his crank. "Get off my air, you coward!" he'd scream on more than one occasion.
     
    goalmouth, Aug 24, 2020
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