MLB '24 Regular Season Thread

*barges in on OrioleSJ.com*

I think we've all been doing this long enough to recognize that when a team says a guy w/a recent UCL injury is getting extra rest but not for health reasons...it's for health reasons. Hope I'm wrong here.

 

Exactly.
“Extra rest” is a health-related move. Especially when they won’t say if and when Bradish will pitch again. He’s like the rest of them: a ticking time bomb. Just a matter of when.

 

The bar is very low in Anaheim. I don't think they have had a decent TV play-by-play guy since Dick Enberg.

 

He's worse than a ticking time bomb...he's a grenade without a pin. There aren't many guys who come back from a UCL injury w/o surgery. Only ones I can think of are Masahiro Tanaka about 10 years ago and Mike Hampton with the Astros way back in the late '90s. And Hampton's went after a few years.

 

But they have real Colorado values!

 

This is why nobody should give up more than a mid-level prospect for Mason Miller.

 

There are a couple of irritating things about Randazzo and Gubicza.

Randazzo is a know-it-all, but, dammit, he does know a lot. The irritating thing is lapsing into a comfort zone, i.e. O'Hoppe is the regular catcher, so Randazzo says O'Hoppe did something even in games when Thaiss is catching. Same with Taylor Ward in left field. Randazzo will say Ward catches the fly in games when he is DHing and Kevin Pillar is out there.

If Gubicza would just eliminate "tough play" from his vocabulary, he would be fantastic. EVERY freaking play is a tough play. "That was a tough play ... they mowed the lawn left to right today so the ball took some funny bounces." It is every play. Unfortunately, O'Neill picked that up from him. O'Neill adopts what every real announcer says and tries to make it his own. He is a clown who isn't even suitable for sideline reporter duties.

 

Saying the DH caught the ball in LF isn't a comfort zone thing, it's being lazy and not doing the work. But that's Randazzo, who always half-assed it in NY b/c he had eyes on other national gigs. Enjoy Apple TV, absolutely nobody watches you there.

 

Giants Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow are pretty good together. They have a great chemistry, know their stuff and don't get too homerish. They tend to be a little soft at times when the when the Giants are dreck, but they're good.

Jon Miller is still quality on the radio as is Dave Flemming. Miller is just getting on and is losing something on his fastball and Flemming is good, but generic good.

But the problem is their A team (Kruk and Kuip on TV, Flemming and Miller on the radio) hasn't been traveling as much and they call in former players who normally do banal pre and post game commentary on TV to fill in and they aren't great. They also have the minor league guy come up and he has one tone for everything. It really is a hard listen.

And now that you have gotten way too much about the Giants' broadcast team, you may carry on.

 

I will also add that I am so glad I don't live in Southern California any more. Anytime I caught an Angels broadcast, I wanted to hurt someone. I don't know if they've changed people since 2013 when I moved, but my God they were straight trash.

 

Oh, my!

 

I thought Cade Povich was quite competitive for his debut. He got two pitches up, and that accounted for five of their six runs.

By the way, Justin Turner's numbers are not good, but don't think that he's over the hill. The man can still rake.

In his prime, Jon Miller had as comfortable a delivery as anyone short of Mr. Scully.