Posted on 07/22/2011 1:31:33 PM PDT by EveningStar
Vince came up doing the broadcasts by himself..nowadays, you have 2, 3..even 4 men in the booth. They are "forced" to say weird stuff to differentiate themselves.
More and more, teams want their announcers to be outright "homers"...it's their right.....but for me, I get tired of it..
I can't listen to Sterling do a Yankees game...it revolts me..but if you ever listen to him to a 3 hour sports talk segment on the radio..he's quiet, and very knowledgeable. He feels compelled to be the ultimate "homer"
ESPN and Sportscenter have changed everything...for good on bad..
"No doubt about it...we had 'em ALLLLL the way..."
When I was growing up in L.A., it was Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett announcing for the Dodgers. When the game was televised, they would switch every few innings, one of them doing radio, the other TV. But if the game wasn't televised, they would work as a team on radio.
Even though I’ve been an Angels fan for 45 years, Vin Scully is the voice of baseball for me. Hearing his voice waft through the air on a summer day after the grass has been mown is a very fond childhood memory of my neighborhood.
Same here!
I loved The Gunner - he made baseball on the radio about as exciting as being at the park. He sure didn’t do well with hockey, though.
Scully was, and still is, magnificent.
I grew up listening to the late, great Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Herb Carneal and my beloved Minnesota Twins, paired with Halsey Hall and Ray Scott.
Carneal worked for a year with the equally legendary Ernie Harwell before Ernie joined up with WJR in Detroit. That would have been a wonderful broadcast to listen to.
Nowadays, Twins radio is a wasteland. I’ve heard John Gordon give the score wrong for BOTH teams at times, and Dan Gladden and Jack Morris sometimes can’t speak a coherent English sentence.
I miss Herb. But Scully is now in a league by himself.
Doggett was a good announcer, and seemed to have every stat imaginable right at his fingertips, even though it was decades before broadcasters had the help of computers.
Yes, Doggett was good. But Scully is an artist. I have often wished I had a recording of the introduction to the first nighttime playoff game in Wrigley Field. They had just put up the lights that year I think.
As the camera showed the viewers a shot of the field from the blimp, Scully gave an introduction that was pure poetry, likening the lights around the perimeter of the field to a diamond necklace. I would love to hear it again.
Vin was a pretty good golf announcer too.
Ever see the ASA’s Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time List? —http://www.americansportscastersonline.com/top50sportscasters.html
I take issue with a few names on there that shouldn’t be (like Joe Buck, Bill Walton, and Chris Berman), but they sure got #1 right. And I’d have placed Chick Hearn in the top 5. ....maybe top 3.
1988 -- a very good year for Vin and the Dodgers. I did a brief search for Scully's intro for that game and came up empty.
I remember when John Sterling was 4th man for TBS, behind Skip Carey, Pete Van Wieren, and Ernie Johnson. It got to the point where we’d turn the sound down during Sterling’s half of the game, and I was so happy when he left TBS.
However, he often hosts a weekend program on a sportstalk staion n NYC during the off-season, and there, he is a joy to listen to. He's low key, polite to those who call in, and the guy really knows his baseball...it's almost lie there's TWO people..
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