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OT: Best former-pro tv analyst/play by play (any sport)

NEforceUConn said:
In baseball good old Joe Morgan surprised me because he was enjoyable.
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I don't have specific memories of Joe Morgan in the booth, but I definitely recall memes, mostly noting he was Captain Obvious.
 
Al Michaels

Smart, informed, straight shooter and not a blowhard
 
Walt "Clyde" Frazier, because he is so unique. Who doesn't want to see "Dishin' and Swishin'"?
 
Throwing out some names from my youth (eons ago):
-Our own George Erlich
-Mel Allen describing a "Ballantine Blast"
-Charlie Jones & Al Derogatis doing west coast games in the early days of the AFL
-caught former Brooklyn Dodgers voice Red Barber as he was winding down his career from the "catbird seat" at Yankee Stadium
-Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek on the NBC Saturday game of the week
-Paul Christman as Gowdy's sidekick on AFL Brpadcasts
-Chris Schenkel as the early '60s CBS tv Voice of the New York Giants (in the early 60's CBS assigned a broadcast crew to each NFL team home and away & Jack Whitaker was the play by play caller for the Eagles)
-Lindsay Nelson describing ANY sport (Notre Dame football, football bowl games, & of course, the METS) Always wondered where he got those technicolor blazers
-Chuck Thompson describing Orioles games in WBAL
-Jim Palmer was decent as an baseball analyst after his HOF career as ace of the Oriole
-Bob Wilson as the longtime radio voice of the Boston Bruins
-Who could ever forget the raspy voice of avowed homer radio broadcaster Johnny Most describing a Celtics game?
 
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WhereistheDove? said:
I loved Fire Joe Morgan. What a blast from the past to see that. And a CT connection with Michael Schur. I think Alan Yang, who he go-created Parks and Rec with, was one of the other writers if I’m remembering correctly.
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Yeah Schur and Yang from Parks and Rec, and the 3rd guy Dave King was a writer on that show and also Workaholics
 
Ralph Kiner. Kiner's Korner was the funniest show I have ever watched.
 
coachcap said:
Throwing out some names from my youth (eons ago):
-Our own George Erlich
-Mel Allen describing a "Ballantine Blast"
-Charlie Jones & Al Derogatis doing west coast games in the early days of the AFL
-caught former Brooklyn Dodgers voice Red Barber as he was winding down his career from the "catbird seat" at Yankee Stadium
-Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek on the NBC Saturday game of the week
-Paul Christman as Gowdy's sidekick on AFL Brpadcasts
-Chris Schenkel as the early '60s CBS tv Voice of the New York Giants (in the early 60's CBS assigned a broadcast crew to each NFL team home and away & Jack Whitaker was the play by play caller for the Eagles)
-Lindsay Nelson describing ANY sport (Notre Dame football, football bowl games, & of course, the METS) Always wondered where he got those technicolor blazers
-Chuck Thompson describing Orioles games in WBAL
-Jim Palmer was decent as an baseball analyst after his HOF career as ace of the Oriole
-Bob Wilson as the longtime radio voice of the Boston Bruins
-Who could ever forget the raspy voice of avowed homer radio broadcaster Johnny Most describing a Celtics game?
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Chuck Thompson was terrific
 
metsfan2323 said:
Our own Dan Orlovsky deserves a mention, he is excellent, a true rising star in the profession.

Walt Clyde Frazier has always been a favorite of mine. Keith Hernandez and Tim Mccarver are my Mets favorites, Ron Darling is also terrific.

If John Madden didn't have a career ending injury in Eagles training camp he would be the winner.
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Yeah, until he farted on air during his first NFL call…
 
QDOG5 said:
Ralph Kiner. Kiner's Korner was the funniest show I have ever watched.
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Towards the end there he was just calling the players whatever name popped in his head. The best
 
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storrsroars said:
I don't have specific memories of Joe Morgan in the booth, but I definitely recall memes, mostly noting he was Captain Obvious.
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The awfulness of Joe Morgan in his later years spawned a website (firejoemorgan.com) by a prominent tv sitcom writer/show runner that was basically the precursor to Awful Announcing. While they did not necessarily aim to get Joe Morgan fired, they would humorously deconstruct comments by sports announcers and writers and was a great read among the monotony of debits, credit, and internal control narratives.

Morgan was great when he and Jon Miller first started out on Sunday Night Baseball, but he absolutely morphed completely into Captain Obvious by the mid-aughts. His more aggravating characteristic was his complete lack of understanding of sabermetrics and total rejection of analytics as a whole. He even rejected Moneyball, which he thought was written by Billy Beane, without reading a word of it. The irony being that the SABR, at one point, put Joe Morgan at the top of the list of greatest second basemen of all time.

Then he would host Q&As on ESPN dot com (back when it was worth reading) and get salty with the question submitters.

Lack of introspection is not a positive trait and as someone who thinks he knows a fair amount about history of the game and baseball strategy, Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver were among my least favorite announcers.
 
Husky25 said:
The awfulness of Joe Morgan in his later years spawned a website (firejoemorgan.com) by a prominent tv sitcom writer/show runner that was basically the precursor to Awful Announcing. While they did not necessarily aim to get Joe Morgan fired, they would humorously deconstruct comments by sports announcers and writers and was a great read among the monotony of debits, credit, and internal control narratives.

Morgan was great when he and Jon Miller first started out on Sunday Night Baseball, but he absolutely morphed completely into Captain Obvious by the mid-aughts. His more aggravating characteristic was his complete lack of understanding of sabermetrics and total rejection of analytics as a whole. He even rejected Moneyball, which he thought was written by Billy Beane, without reading a word of it. The irony being that the SABR, at one point, put Joe Morgan at the top of the list of greatest second basemen of all time.

Then he would host Q&As on ESPN dot com (back when it was worth reading) and get salty with the question submitters.

Lack of introspection is not a positive trait and as someone who thinks he knows a fair amount about history of the game and baseball strategy, Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver were among my least favorite announcers.
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It's a different feel when announcers were mediocre ex ball players, not HOF'ers: you get way more honesty. I'm a huge Rays fan and Brian Anderson's insight as an ex-journeyman pitcher has more integrity than some of the star power TV guys
 
Mark Schlereth and Greg Olsen have been doing great

Tony Romo predicted a couple plays and was rocketed to overrated status
 
@Jaydumo20 , he had that scorecard with a team A stats on one side and team B stats on the other side. He just kept flipping that over and over. So funny.
 
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