The TBS Broadcast Team: Slow Start
Baseball, Media Gossip/Musings October 2nd. 2008, 11:45am
Maybe hard economic times have hit TBS, and that’s why lifelong NBA guys like Ernie Johnson, Dick Stockton, and Craig Sager were all over the baseball tripleheader yesterday. We were big fans of Stockton in 1985 when he was calling Lakers-Celtics games, but 23 years later, he’s making dreadful home run calls (specifically, Mark DeRosa’s). Sager’s sartorial selection was spectacularly laughable as usual, but the man is a terrific inteview so we’ll give him a pass.
TBS announcers are corny and wrong (Comcast)
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October 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 am
I think that Buck Martinez only speaks in timeless baseball cliches.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
I liked Ronnie Darling and Tony Gwynn together…I think they brought out the best in each other. Stockton is serviceable for baseball. I still don’t get why they don’t get the best play by play guys of the teams who are out of it and put them on the games within their league.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Phenomenal pic.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Because it’s cheaper and easier for TBS to get people whom they already have under contract for NBA games.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Dick Stockton wasn’t bad. Aldridge didn’t really know what was up though.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Last night just reaffirmed my belief that Sager is trying to be Don Cherry, except without the blatant xenophobia.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
The Broadcast team critiquing is usually overdone. Sure, these aren’t the best guys in the world but they weren’t awful. Most of them were able to blend into the background pretty well to make me forget they were there.
BTW, 10 straight hours of baseball is the greatest thing evar.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
St. Bear…they payed close to 500 million dollars…they can;t afford to Pay Gary Cohen, Harry Kalas, Vin Scully, Sean McDonugh etc ewt…to work for two weeks?
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 am
And Vin Scully isn’t 3rd on purpose..that was off the top of my head
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
i feel these guys are doing ok in the booth. as long as we are getting Harold Reynolds, all is well with the world.
I like Roman’s idea of getting the best play by play guys from other teams. I think he is retired, but Ernie Harwell would be awesome.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Just so long as Mark Grace isn’t in the booth, I’m happy. He tells a good story, but after every pitch that a batter takes that is called a strike, he says, “Right down the middle.” Doesn’t matter if it’s outside corner at the knees or near a guys ear. It’s always right down the middle.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
i can’t believe they have Brian Anderson (Brewers TV guy) doing the Brewers/Phillies series. Doesn’t really seem fair to me. Plus, he sucks.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Buck Martinez = Awful. Ron Darling was pretty good. I would like to see Al Leiter in the booth for these games. He does a great job.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I was at a bar watching the game, so couldn’t really hear, but i imagine Smoltzy was good in the booth.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
They won’t get other guys because then we’d be hearing Michael Kay for two weeks.
you know we would.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Smoltz might have been fine at a different ballpark, but he hates Citizens Bank Park and won’t shut up about how terrible he thinks it is.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
As much as they bore me, Sager, Stockton, etc. >>>>>> Joe bleepin’ Buck and Tim “douchecanoe” McCarver
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
It’s too bad Scip Carrey wasn’t available – he would’ve been good.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
That maybe the only thing I have ever agreed with John Smoltz about ever..that ballpark is an embarrassment
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
it’s not joe buck and tim mccarver so i think we’re all winners in this bracket.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
+1 clown
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Yeah, Brian Anderson and John Smoltz doing a Phillies series just seems funny.
Thank God they don’t have Michael Kay. ESPN radio played his radio call of Mike Cameron’s misplay on that ball hit by Utley today, and he called it a catch all the way.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
What is wrong with Philly’s stadium? I went there, it was no worse than the Nationals stadium.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
even better, not having to listen to Yankees radio announcers this playoffs. Suzyn Waldman and John Sterling make my ears bleed in a bad way.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Clown, quit trying to bait me into correcting you.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
cbh…looks wise nothing…the fact that it is a band box…just terrible…it’s a joke they did nothing to make it tough to hit a home run..at least the juice made CF a fucking trek to hit too…Great American bothers me for the same reason
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
It’s not THAT small. They did move back the left field fence since they first opened it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Al Leiter would be awesome. Fox won’t have him back because he kept correcting Buck.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
BTW, 10 straight hours of baseball add up to only 26 minutes of actual action blockquote>Not unlike a full slate of NFL games.
Ernie Johnson is the best. Ever.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I had never really heard Michael Kay do a broadcast before. He sounded like a fan who was on the radio for the first time. Like Darin Jackson.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
that Cameron catch should’ve been made. he took about 3 steps in then realized he had to go back. it should’ve been a routine fly ball but he made it really difficult. how they officially scored it as a double is a travesty.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I agree with whoever said it above…I think the armchair criticism of announcers (unless they’re just completely intolerable–i.e.Waldman/Sterling) is kinda lame. TBS did a fine job.
/former TBS employee
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Hey welcome back ATL. Let me fill you in on what you missed. The White Sox suck, so does soccer, and Kevin Duckworth died (I think). That is every single thing that has happened around here. Oh and there is something called a 1-liner. You’re gonna like ‘em. Trust me.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
We need to start a petition for Vin Scully.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Happy – thanks for the update. What about Kobe vs. Lebron? I’m anxious to hear the final outcome.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
That’s still to be determined. But I do know that after the olympics, Dwight Howard really sucks now. Yeah, I know. We were all shocked.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
No Morgan, no McCarver… This is perfectly fine broadcasting as far as I’m concerned!