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[Past Your Eyes]

Ken Harrelson is some kinda irritating to listen to. Scully is pure class.

[Mr. Mojo]

He is the antithesis of most of today's broadcasters.

Especially Ken Harrelson (of the White Sox), who announces a game like a little kid screaming for his team. lol...the most unprofessional broadcaster ever.

There've been a lot of great ones, but Vinny is the best ever. ...with Mel Allen a close second.

[RingerSIX]

Scully is class. I’m partial to Bob Prince, aka The Gunner.

[RitchieAprile]

I first heard him call a game in 1956 at the age of four.

[GSWarrior]

I miss Jerry Coleman, who used to call the Padre games. He was fun to listen to and his broadcasts were full of gaffes.

"Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen."

[yooling]

Vin Scully is the one and only good thing about that organization. For the best broadcast team in the business though , you must go north a few hundred miles. John Miller, Dave Fleming, Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper are GREAT! Go Giants! And that’s my (totally unbiased)2cents.

[RichInOC]

Vin is a gift from God. That said, as a Jim Rome fan, I enjoyed the time Grace went on the radio show and explained what “slumpbusters” were.

[angcat]

Michael Kay is a big asshole Obama lover. He makes me sick and is very unattractive.

[ken5050]

Couple of points....

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..

[Colonel_Flagg]

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.