He's dry, but I like that over your Carey's and Hamilton types... I hate WE guys
I really liked Hank Greenwald, Bill King, Niehause, Ernie Hartwell, Jerry Coleman, Skip Carey was underrated,Jon Miller on the radio is great
Marty is great when on and in the past he was always on
It's hard being on for 40 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6McvgeHAo
Can we all at least agree that Hawk Harrelson is terrible?
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
I was going to mention him but all this "Thomer" talk distracted me.
See also: Edwards, Jack*
* Whom I love as a Bruins fan because he's hilarious.
Very astute observation and also one of my biggest issues with Thom.
If he were just a hack who did not know any better then it would be one thing. But he seems to save his objectivity for those days when the expanded national audience will be listening. Welsh, on the other hand, has done some Fox national games in the past and you would be hard-pressed to notice a difference in his style.
Thom uses his broadcast time on FSO as yet another opportunity for the prodigal son to remind everyone where he learned his chops. We can thank the Old Man for that one.
His 'Crumudgeon-in-Training' act is tired and Reds fans do not need Marty 2.0.
REDREAD (04-26-2013)
Nope. I have a soft spot for him. I love the He Gone and you can put it on the board calls. Grew up with him and Tom Paciorek doing games on WGN. The only games I could watch then were Braves, Cubs and White Sox games here on cable. So out of the 3 broadcast teams the White Sox were my favorite. I like an announcer with a personality. To each his own.
Marty is a great pbp announcer. Where he lacks is he holds onto some shallow opinions about facets of the game that are grating. However, if its calling the action on the field, there is a very short list of peers with him, and Scully ain't one of 'em.
I think you hit the nail on the head for my Scully disdain. He does pbp like the reading of a last will and testament. Plus the one man gig requires him to talk constantly, and sometimes its actually about the play on the field.
"Rounding 3rd and heading for home, good night everybody"
I loved Joe to death as a color guy, but there were times he was doing PBP and would go to commercial at the end of the inning and not say the score! I'd go out to my car sometimes on my lunch break and try to listen for a few minutes to see how it was going, and you talk about driving someone CRAZY. UGH!
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
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