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OT? Your Favorite Announcer - Any Sport, Any Period

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Sonny44 said:
No Yankee fans out there. John Sterling?
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Maybe he just isn't that good.
I thnk my fav is Kruk and Kuip for the SF Giants are the best listen on TV for Baseball, and Madden for Football.
 
Ron Perry and Bob Picossie were my two favorite tv announcers and my favorite radio announcer is the Voice of the 28 time world Champ's John Sterling As for my other favorite radio announcer's are BOB PAPA the voice of the NY GIANTS and the other one is JOE DAMBROASA the radio voice of the 3 time NCAA Champion's UCONN HUSKIES he does the UCONN FOOTBALL PLAY BY PLAY AS WELL
 
Wayne Norman.

I have never heard anyone ever say a bad thing about Wano.

Outside of Wayne, Phil Liggett (cycling) and Dave Johnson (horse racing).
 
Grew up on Red Barber - his word pictures on radio were almost visual - and he taught Vin Scully well
 
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wire chief said:
John Facenda...no explanation needed.
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He was the unbelievable voice for the NFL documentaries- was he also a tv or radio announcer? The shows he narrates make the show- the video footage almost didn't matter. One of the great voices ever in sports!
 
Shenandoah said:
Doc Emerick for hockey-I'm continually amazed how he can follow the action and keep up with who has the puck, etc
Phil Rizzuto for baseball. Probably because I grew up idolizing "The Mick"...
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Doc Emerick for sure and "Holy Cow" I was gonna say Phil for the same reason- listening in the early to mid 60's to the games outside on the wknd, and then running inside just to watch "The Mick" swing the bat. Then head outside till his next at bat.
 
UConnCat said:
Sean McDonough, Jay Bilas and Bill Raftery were the best for college basketball.
Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez on SNY are wonderful on Mets games. The Mets stink but the games are worth watching just to listen, learn and laugh with those three.
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I think Bill Raftery is still the Bomb! "With a kiss" who is his normal partner - Sean McDonough? They are perfect together! I like Dick Vitale too- he brings a certain something to the game that I like.
 
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Sonny44 said:
Wow, lots of good choices.
I had another. Ken Coleman did the Browns games when they were great. PLEASE, no booing.
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The same Ken Coleman that did Bosox broadcasts with Ned Martin and Mel Parnell?
 
Lindsey Nelson was also an outstanding baseball announcer and he was the Sunday afternoon voice of Notre Dame football highlights.

Basketball on Radio: Marv Albert - Yessssss!
Baseball on Radio: Bob Murphy(his brother, BTW, is Jack Murphy of Jack Murphy stadium)
Close Basketball Game: Gus Johnson( hands down, and he seems to get them all).
Versatility: Doris Burke with a nod to the sportscaster mentioned below.
Women's Sports: Beth Mowins(she is also quite versatile, does a lot of football games)
Unabashed Homerism: Chic Hearn
Another Nod on Versatility: Al Trautwig
Interviewer: Roy Firestone
Sports Newscaster: Jim Hill

I have never, ever liked Billy Packer.
I think Rebecca Lobo and Kara Lawson will eventually totally take over desk coverage of the women's championship.
I like what they did with the three separate broadcasts of the men's national semifinals. No need to be fair and objective when that is clearly not the objective.
 
VAUConnFan said:
Lindsey Nelson was also an outstanding baseball announcer and he was the Sunday afternoon voice of Notre Dame football highlights.

Basketball on Radio: Marv Albert - Yessssss!
Baseball on Radio: Bob Murphy(his brother, BTW, is Jack Murphy of Jack Murphy stadium)
Close Basketball Game: Gus Johnson( hands down, and he seems to get them all).
Versatility: Doris Burke with a nod to the sportscaster mentioned below.
Women's Sports: Beth Mowins(she is also quite versatile, does a lot of football games)
Unabashed Homerism: Chic Hearn
Another Nod on Versatility: Al Trautwig
Interviewer: Roy Firestone
Sports Newscaster: Jim Hill

I have never, ever liked Billy Packer.
I think Rebecca Lobo and Kara Lawson will eventually totally take over desk coverage of the women's championship.
I like what they did with the three separate broadcasts of the men's national semifinals. No need to be fair and objective when that is clearly not the objective.
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I like Gus, Beth and Doris as well... Gus has a lot of videos on YouTube, the comments are hilarious
 
Men's college basketball-Al McGuire and Billy Packer. Women's college basketball-Kara Lawson and Rebecca Lobo. Honorable Mention-Eric Friede and Meghan Culmo (I know it's crazy but I really enjoy listening to them).
 
Sonny44 said:
No Yankee fans out there. John Sterling?
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Sterling is awful. There are few worse. Unfortunately for him, he works directly with one of them. Waldman may actually bring less to the table. I have no idea how Yankee fans listen to the radio. It's like nails on a chalkboard.
 
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Sonny44 said:
Michael Kay then?
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He's pretty poor as well. Ken Singleton is excellent, and I really miss Jim Kaat and Bobby Murcer. Those guys knew what they were talking about, and they did not grate on the nerves. Of course, Bill White, Rizzuto and Frank Messer were a classic trio.
 
Jack Buck was real good. Mickie Dearstone does a nice job in calling games.
 
Fishy said:
Wayne Norman.

I have never heard anyone ever say a bad thing about Wano.

Outside of Wayne, Phil Liggett (cycling) and Dave Johnson (horse racing).
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He's a good one.
 
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Ray Hudson (soccer) always comes up with the craziest things. Also for more intellectual announcing Ian Darke and Martin Tyler (soccer).
 
Fishy said:
Wayne Norman.
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I think Wayne's an excellent color guy. He makes good observations, gives you needed facts and info and most inportantly he gets in and out. I can't stand the color person that talks too much.

Anyway, a few years ago he was on with Arnold Dean talking about his book when I called and pretty much repeated the above. After I was done, Arnold asked if I was interested in going to the Don Zimmer roast at Mohegan Sun. I said sure, not knowing what kind of deal it was. I figured I might get some free food or something. Turned out it was a huge deal, a big fundraiser, over 1,000 people . Open bar, surf and turf dinner. It was worth putting up with all the Yankee talk. The only real roasting was everyone saying how lousy Zim was at the track. His nickname was "Place" because his horses always ran 2nd. Quite the prize for a radio call-in.
 
ballhawk said:
Men's college basketball-Al McGuire and Billy Packer.
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I know it's opinion but no, just Al McGuire. Packer was basking in reflected glory. Notice how when he was finally canned, nobody missed him? The consensus was: What took you so long?
 
meyers7 said:
Who is he? Never heard of him.
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Meyers, as our in-house soccer afficianado, who is that crazy Spanish announcer that does his classic GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!?
 
I would watch the Yankee game with the sound off and turn on the radio to listen to Phil Rizzuto. The "Scooter" would exaggerate the plays to make it sound great on radio so much sometimes that it seemed like I was watching the wrong game. But he was the most exciting announcer. With Bill White and Frank Messer they made a great team.
 
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