I have disliked the ESPN baseball commentators for a long time now, and find them almost unlistenable. I used to watch Baseball Tonight every night. I still watch most nights but the firing of Harold Reynolds has left them with a void they have not adequately been able to fill, plus Steve Philips needs to go. And come on now...John Kruk?!
During the games, I have tried to listen to the Mets on WFAN simultaneously but the delay always frustrates me and I just switch back to ESPN's goons.
Joe Morgan has long been the focal point for my hatred, but after last night's game I found him to be objective, knowledgeable, and almost easy to listen to. Although it is a long season, Joe has taken one small step forward in my mind after 100 steps back.
I still however hate watching a game on ESPN because of Jon Miller. He is hypocritical, asks horrible questions to managers during the games (see below), and mispronounces player's names. Every time he says Bel-TRON (accent on the 2nd syllable), my left eye twitches.
I feel that their "experts" are antiquated and subjective. They sing the praises of whoever makes a dazzling defensive play, then bash the same player when he makes an error. I feel like they read a small blurb of info on each team before they cover them, then mic up. They do however make me appreciate Keith, Gary, and Ron that much more.
Miller interviewing Willie during the game:
Miller: "Glavine is your ace."
Willie: "Yes, Glavine is our ace."
Miller: "What about Pedro?"
Willie: "Pedro's doing fine..."
Was that first remark even a question? They need to do away with the in-game interviews and let the managers manage.
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Joe Morgan Not That Bad?
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Re: Joe Morgan Not That Bad?
And what about the comment Jose Reyes takes a walk 1/46 of his atb bats that he messed up saying at first 46 walks. Earlier Joe mentioned he does not pay a whole lot of attention to stats. Saying stats should not be a decision maker. He is bad.
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Chris
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 09:11 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
How about when he screamed out EVERYTIME Poo-Holes (tee hee) fielded a ball. "Poo-Holes fields it with his bare hand." Ugh.
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Ravi
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 09:45 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Pronounciation is corret-- See on the link below, just to the right of the picture of Carlos
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=6132 Re: Re: Joe Morgan Not That Bad?
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Regis Courtemanche
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 10:15 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Thanks for the feedback, but I was referring to his accent on the second syllable (tron) which according to ESPN is wrong (BELL).
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toasterdude
on Mon 02 Apr 2007 12:27 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
His pronunciation is actually pretty close. He over emphasizes it possibly to show that he is atleast close as most other anouncers say beltraan. . . . he needs to roll the r a bit to go with it.
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huckseed
on Thu 05 Apr 2007 05:31 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
i dont get to see many mets games on tv here in louisiana, but when they do show one its usually steve phillips calling it..uggg. torture, its torture.
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