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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by huber14 View Post
    Last game is on the road in Pittsburgh, would have been cool to hear him call his final out through the PA system at home.
    My guess is that whenever the Reds last home game is that will be his finale.
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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Definitely the end of an era; Marty has been a part of my life from childhood and now into my 40s. Nobody called an exciting game better. I will miss hearing him on the radio.

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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    I feel like I just received a sign from above. I've recently been putting off some "adult" things I should be doing in my mid-30s (update my life insurance policy, shop for a minivan, cut back on the booze & pizza, etc) telling myself, "I'm still a kid at heart, I've got plenty time" and now the only voice of the Reds I've ever known is moving on. So many childhood memories.. It's time to grow up.

    But hey, I've got until the end of the season at least right?

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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Cut back on booze and pizza?

    Good god man get a hold of yourself

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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    Back in 1974 I wasn't quite 11 years old and I was still living in the mountains of Kentucky. News didn't travel there very fast back then. So I didn't know Al Michaels had left until the spring training games had started. In fact the first game I was listening to I thought it was Michaels. They had similar radio voices. It wasn't into the game at some point that this was a new and unheard of guy named Marty Brennaman who was now doing the games.
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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Just as an aside, if not for the tragic death of Claude Sullivan in 1967 Marty may never had been the Reds announcer. Sullivan was the Reds PBP announcer from 1964-67. He died in December of 1967 as the result of throat cancer at age 42. If not for that he may well have been the Reds announcer well into the 80's and 90's.


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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by Todd Gack View Post
    Isn't Dan Hoard's "Dream Job" to do MLB play-by-play? I'd be cool with him. I'd be cool with a lot of guys not named (or spelled) Thom.
    former voice of the AAA Paw Sox. You have to think he's in the mix.

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    The same Jim Day who tweeted at Untucked shirts his disappointment in their services yesterday?

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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Marty and Joe forever.

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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by medford View Post
    In all honesty, outside of the 2000 team, and a 4 year run earlier this decade, who much has there been worthwhile to discuss about the reds over the last 20 years? Its the between stuff that helps fill the gaps of the far too often underwhelming seasons. I mean he could have discussed the trials and tribuations of Danny Sarafini.... or discuss something else. His issues with the "something else" came about when Joe stepped away. Joe had that "good ol' boy, homegrown, ah shucks" appeal to him that complimented Marty's side discussions so well.

    Anyhoo.... Happy Trails to you Marty, you've been the voice of the Redlegs before I was born, its going to be different not hearing you on those stale summer nights down the road. Better or worse, who knows, but definitely different..and missed. 45 years is a long road to hoe.
    Here's how long Marty has been broadcasting: I was a 19 year old college student during his first season. I'm now a 64 year old grandfather.

    [correcting word since Chip caught my error - I love being a grandpa]
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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by redsmetz View Post
    Here's how long Marty has been broadcasting: I was a 19 year old college student during his first season. I'm not a 64 year old grandfather.
    You're not? Me either.
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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

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    Thin Brennaman is not interested in replacing his father. #reds
    7:18pm · 16 Jan 2019 ·
    Thin? I'm sure he means Thom. This is good news.

    So...broadcast team for 2020:

    TV: Day+Welsh
    Radio: Hoard+LeCure
    Swing: Brantley
    Stands: Picoro(sp?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by redsmetz View Post
    Here's how long Marty has been broadcasting: I was a 19 year old college student during his first season. I'm not a 64 year old grandfather.
    What are you then?
    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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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by WrongVerb View Post
    Thin? I'm sure he means Thom. This is good news.

    So...broadcast team for 2020:

    TV: Day+Welsh
    Radio: Hoard+LeCure
    Swing: Brantley
    Stands: Picoro(sp?)

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    What are you then?
    Wow. that's BIG. Thom could go all National with Fox and Big Ten work a limited schedule. I wonder if his wife Polly wants to go back to Arizona.

    Marty said to Paul Daughterty that Tommy Thrall is coming up from Pensecola and could be " the guy"



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    here's more from Marty

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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by WrongVerb View Post
    Thin? I'm sure he means Thom. This is good news.

    So...broadcast team for 2020:

    TV: Day+Welsh
    Radio: Hoard+LeCure
    Swing: Brantley
    Stands: Picoro(sp?)

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    What are you then?
    The Reds had some guy from one of their affiliates fill in last summer but I can't remember who it was, but I wondered whether he was doing an audition.

    I'm hoping they do a wide search and look to become a bit younger on the broadcast side. Marty was 31 when he started, as noted in the news article WOY posted. With the exception of LeCure (who is now 34), everyone else is north of 50 - with Chris Welsh being my age. I don't know whether he's a grandfather or not.
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    Re: Marty Brennaman: 2019 is my final year

    Quote Originally Posted by redsmetz View Post
    The Reds had some guy from one of their affiliates fill in last summer but I can't remember who it was, but I wondered whether he was doing an audition.

    I'm hoping they do a wide search and look to become a bit younger on the broadcast side. Marty was 31 when he started, as noted in the news article WOY posted. With the exception of LeCure (who is now 34), everyone else is north of 50 - with Chris Welsh being my age. I don't know whether he's a grandfather or not.
    They had the Dayton guy come up for an inning or a game late in the season.
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