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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 4527857, member: 11804"] I would have appreciated more about the handoff, the most controversial play of the game. They showed one fleeting clip that revealed what looked more like a QB handing off to a running back, while the inbounds ref stood by. They should have analyzed that miss, and why it was not reviewable under the rules . . . something that even had Geno confused during the presser. I learned my baseball, growing up, listening to Mel Allen on the radio. He not only described the game in colorful detail, but he also taught his listeners the rules and the lore of the game. If a player had just broken a record, he'd go into the record book and talk about the former record holder. If there was a rule invoked -- even as routine as the infield fly rule -- he'd explain it "for those of you who are not familiar with the rules." And he loved talking about the greats of the past. Granted, there's a lot more dead time in baseball broadcasting than there is in basketball play-by-play. But the announcers I grew up with -- Allen, Red Barber, Vin Scully, Bob Wolff, Marty Glickman, Curt Gowdy, even Marv Albert -- brought us all the action while teaching us the game. And Allen, known as "baseball's babbling brook," also did the TV play-by-play of the Rose Bowl on NBC for many years -- "the grand-daddy of all the bowl games," he used to say. Too few broadcasters today are more concerned about the needs of the listeners in following a game. (Glickman was famous for telling his radio audience "The Giants are moving from left to right on your dial.") [/QUOTE]

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