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Dan Shulman & Buck Martinez 4th On List Of Best TV Baseball Announcers
In a list that takes in 30 possible candidates, fourth is pretty good. It was compiled from votes taken from the website "Awful Announcing," which notes this is the highest score the Toronto TV play-by-play crew has ever achieved in its annual survey.
"Dan Shulman is one of the best play-by-play announcers in all of baseball, and Blue Jays fans should be thrilled he calls nearly all of their games," the site explains.
The #1 pick? The San Francisco Giants crew, who regularly come in first place survey after survey, but who most Canadian baseball fans never get to hear.
The survey covers the TV crews and not those on radio, but it would be nice to know where Ben Wagner & Co. rank on that list.
The 2023 MLB local broadcaster rankings
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I really like Buck Martinez and his analysis, but I've come to like Joe Siddall's at least as much, probably more. He's great in that position or on the Blue Jays Centre desk with Jamie.
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Buck's voice is annoying.
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This topic is right up Laffin's alley.
Haven't seen Laffin here for a while.
Hope everything is kewl with Laffin
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RadioActive wrote:
The #1 pick? The San Francisco Giants crew, who regularly come in first place survey after survey, but who most Canadian baseball fans never get to hear.
The Giants are on Sportsnet regularly, including three times next week. There's a 50/50 chance that Sportsnet will use the Giants feed for each game.
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While watching last night's debacle, I had to turn down the TV audio and turn on radio's Ben Wagner. The problem is Schulman's over-the-top commentary where there is very little dead air when welcomed. Just too much superfluous talk and as Stan Freeburg said in Dragnet, "Just the facts."
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When it comes to the Sounds of Silence during a baseball game, there was no one better than Vin Scully.
As much as I love the "Touch 'em all Joe!" call from Tom Cheek when the Jays won their last World Series, it was Scully who was responsible for my all time favourite call. It happened in the 1988 World Series Game 1 between the Dodgers and the Athletics.
L.A.'s Kirk Gibson could barely walk and with his team trailing 3-2 in the 9th inning, he hobbled up to the plate to face A's reliever Dennis Eckersley, one of the best in the game. After a sequence of foul offs and swings, it was a 3-2 count and 2 out. Gibson then hit it out of the park to win the game, hobbling painfully around the bases, his arm raised in victory.
Once the ball left the park, where most announcers would have done a recap, Scully said nothing. For over a minute, all you heard was the crowd screaming, shots of players celebrating, Eckersley dumbfounded, etc. Scully didn't say a single word.
Finally, after letting it all go by, he came up with this amazing sentence.
"In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!"
It still sends chills up my spine, either though I'm not a fan of either team. But boy, did I love Scully and I've never forgotten that call.
It happens around the 6:40 mark in the video below if you want to see it.
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While watching last night's debacle, I had to turn down the TV audio and turn on radio's Ben Wagner. The problem is Schulman's over-the-top commentary where there is very little dead air when welcomed. Just too much superfluous talk and as Stan Freeburg said in Dragnet, "Just the facts."
Wouldn't that be "Dragon-net"?