Bear Fan 101 wrote:
Who in the heck were those guys doing baseball games this year on KUCA/KCON? WOW, that was..interesting stuff I must say. Back when I was in school, they had a coouple of guys doing baseball, for the first time on the radio I believe, and man they were spot on. I really enjoyed listening to them. But this group this year was out there.
You know, I didn't think the color guy was too bad. He seemed to have a little more sport-specific knowledge and was good at working the stats into a conversation. Although it was hard to have much of a conversation because...
The play-by-play guy was absolutely horrific. Terrible. I don't think it could've been much worse, actually. He screwed up all the time, be it getting counts wrong, names wrong, scores wrong ... it was always something. Or he'd just freeze up and not know what was going on. I could envision him sitting there drooling all over himself thinking of something to say. Yay for dead air.
And when he did have something to say, he'd usually NOT use baseball terminology and he'd just call things wrong. I liked having the games on the radio, but it wasn't always a pleasant listening experience. Maybe those guys graduated and the next Jack Buck will come through.