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Blue Jay broadcasters must be writhing in pain
So it is the 5th inning and the Jays are down 8-2 and Buck Martinez says, "There is still plenty of time for a comeback win for the Jays"?
Really?
A comeback?
This team?
I think the losing is getting to the broadcast team too...
Oh and Scott MacArthur taking calls on Jays talk, most of them negative towards the team, management, coaching etc...I wonder if he regrets leaving TSN for this gig this year?
The way the Jays are playing it does not bode well for sports radio ratings once hockey and basketball playoffs are done...
The world would be so good if it weren't for some people...
- Radiowiz
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Do the current Jays even know what a baseball is? 
You can't just be a great runner y'know! lol
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Perhaps the next time they lose at home (which shouldn't take too long) fans should have a plastic fork with them which they throw on the field in protest as they leave.
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Note to Mike Wilner: Is it really necessary to often state how fast a baseball was hit? The ever-increasing use of baseball stats is becoming annoying and really....who cares! The least of which is the speed of a baseball off the bat.
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All anncrs talks about exit velo, launch angle, etc etc ... like w everything simple that they touch, the young people have complicated baseball to the point of unbearability by analyzing it to death. Having said that -- Screecho was actually entertaining yesterday. He's from Elkhart Co Indiana and was telling Scott and Mike how he and his brother followed baseball in the 80s, before it was overexposed and anal-yzed to within an inch of its life. Cubs day games pre-lights on WGN, see if the White Sox are on tonight, Braves on WTBS, bros fighting over the remote 
The same may not be said come mid-August when the Jays are buried and everyone including the fans can't wait for the season to end,
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laffin wrote:
Note to Mike Wilner: Is it really necessary to often state how fast a baseball was hit? The ever-increasing use of baseball stats is becoming annoying and really....who cares! The least of which is the speed of a baseball off the bat.
Agreed. Is it also necessary to over-call every homerun or average defensive play early in meaningless games? Both he and his partner have treated us to October excitement. They should analyze the great Tom Cheek's play by play from his heyday and take a cue from a Hall of Fame broadcaster. The overexcitement and overdramatics makes me wonder what they have left for meaningful baseball.
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They should analyze the great Tom Cheek's play by play from his heyday and take a cue from a Hall of Fame broadcaster. The overexcitement and overdramatics makes me wonder what they have left for meaningful baseball.
So true.
The broadcasters of that era who were a cut above, realized that the fans were often better served with a "less is more" commentary style. This is a dying art as today's voices seem to believe that "dead air" is a career killer.
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