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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4293708, member: 833"] I will add that Winning Time's characterizations of Chick Hearn and Johnny Most were really funny. Making fun of the old-time radio guys is low hanging fruit, because they all were such characters. They had to be. Try filling two and a half hours with just words, and making it interesting enough that tens of thousands of people would want to listen to it for 82 games a season. They had to be a little crazy, and the ones that could do it well got a lot of leash, because it was hard. Many of them drank on the air like Hearn did, and Most was a jerk to opposing players. I wish Winning Time would have had some of the lesser known radio personalities that worked smaller markets for lesser teams and were only local legends. I bet some of them were really good. [/QUOTE]