Best Color Analysts Ever

[misterbc]

Great picks of Stram, Davidson, Kubek.
Stram had a great style and was concise.

 

[Songbird]

Stu Lantz, Nick Nickson.

 

[Tighthead]

Kubek did the Jays in Canada for years. I remember him stressing the importance of walks and doubles for production, and as a kid that always stuck with me. I remember him as being very instructive - I always learned some little thing that I could use as a player.

 

[TigerVols]

Easiest question ever asked on the board.

Phil Liggett in his prime.

 

[Mngwa]

Garagiola was special. Madden. I like Bill Raftery.

 

[matt_garth]

It's great to see Tony Kubek getting a lot of mentions.

MLB Network just profiled him as part of its "Sounds of Baseball" series. It was pointed out that he was doing color in 1982 when Willie McGee became the third rookie to homer twice in a World Series game. Kubek was one of the other two (along with Charlie Keller) but was too modest to point it out.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Billy Welu- He had an infectious personality and I enjoyed watching bowling when he did it.

I came around to bowling when Bo Burton had taken over and I really liked him as well (especially for the "Rolaids Bowling Tip of the Week" each week)

 

[Scout]

Romo for football and it's not even close.

Al McGuire for college hoops. Or anyone other than Kellogg, who blows.

Baseball... I've never heard him do color, but I think Sean Casey would be great.

Miller for golf. An asshole, but that's what makes him good.

Dr. Jack or Hubie Brown for pro hoops.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

My favorite Kubek moment. It's June of 1976 and the NBC game of the week is the suddenly good Phillies vs. the Big Red Machine at the Vet. For reasons unknown, some NBC promo person had the booth in about the 4th inning shared with Delawarean, rock and roller and big Phils' fan George Thorogood. Kubek is very wary of this, as corporate soldier Joe Garagiola motors on and asks George why he likes baseball. "Rock and roll is American music and baseball is the American game," says Thorogood. All of a sudden, Kubek has a Zen moment and goes, "yeah," like he'd never thought of it that way. Batter pops up, Joe does promo for the next day's French Open final. George says, "I mean, baseball's not like TENNIS" in terms of complete contempt. This shuts Joe up completely, and Kubek and George do the rest of the inning parting as the best of friends.

 

[Liut]

Romo for football and it's not even close.

Al McGuire for college hoops. Or anyone other than Kellogg, who blows.

Baseball... I've never heard him do color, but I think Sean Casey would be great.

Miller for golf. An asshole, but that's what makes him good.

Dr. Jack or Hubie Brown for pro hoops.

Romo is good, grant you, but some of his work during the recently-completed playoffs was less than stellar.

 

[dixiehack]

Bill Raftery and Jay Bilas are very good on their own. But back when they partnered with Sean McDonough on Big East telecasts, man they brought out the very best in each other. That 6OT UConn-Syracuse game wouldn't have been half as fun with anybody else.

 

[dixiehack]

Romo is good, grant you, but some of his work during the recently-completed playoffs was less than stellar.

Between the obstacles to chemistry and lack of in-person legwork during the week, I don't think anybody is capable of doing better than B-minus work in Pandemic World.