Rod says things like "I see ya big fella" when anyone makes a big play. He also says things like "He's got soft hands at second base".
Anyway, they brought in the great Kirk Gibson (1984 World Champ for Det.) to mix it up with Mario but that proved a bit awkward as Mario never played ball and Kirk pointed that out.
Then recently they've brought in Shep Smith to cover for Mario with Kirk and that combo is really good. Shep is an intense sports guy with a reverence for BB and Kirk and he work well together.
All that jockeying with Rod getting pushed out led to this.
Also, there is a tape of Rod in a Japanese league chasing a Japanese ball player all over the field in full sprint. Very creepy.
Anyway, big new and big change for the Tigers announcers happening. Good thing too. Shep and Kirk work.
Matt “Shep” Shepard not Shepard Smith the “catcher”.
my bad
That's racist! He should be called the African-American commentator Rod Allen.
Second Deck!
Wise choice.
I prefer to have Gibby in the booth to Rod Allen. He wasn’t good at all when he started, but has really become any outstanding analyst (not unlike Mr. Tiger, Al Kaline). Unfortunately, Gibby has Parkinson’s disease, so it seems unlikely he’ll be there for a long time.
According to the Detroit News, Allen had Impemba in a chokehold in the booth after Tuesday night’s game. Rod Allen is definitely weird. When Gibson and Jack Morris started occasionally being the color guy, you could tell Rod didn’t like it. He seemed to like it even less the one game I saw when CMo was in the booth.
Gibson was already scheduled to be in the booth the next 6 games. The question is will Maria and Rod be back at all. My guess is Rod will go, but it remains to be seen.
None of these guys is Ernie Harwell.
Tiger fan here. I miss the old days when Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane, and later Paul Carey, used to duke it out nightly. Oh wait, maybe I’m thinking of Billy Martin..... lol
Don't know anything about these two knuckleheads but Kirk Gibson is the worst color commentator in sports.............
As far as Gibson's pity party Parkinson's disease, I play senior softball with two guys who suffer from the disease, one who is visibly afflicted with it but it doesn't affect his play whatsoever.
I also know an individual who worked for Gibson when he had a landscaping company in Grosse Pointe and recounted numerous times when they would stop at a McDonalds or such restaurant and kids would come up to Gibson and ask for an autograph and he would reject them.........
Off the field, Gibson's entire career was being a jerk..........Fortunately for him, he met up with the Flying Sklarski Sisters and he and Dave Rozema married both of them..........
Thanks for posting. (Tiger fan here)
When I was in Michigan we were knowing that they did not like each other for a few years now . . . and that Rod Allen was trying to move over to FS1 to get away from Mario.
Do they have film on the fight?