For those of you who care deeply about the announcers of the national games, ESPN has announced their Monday night and Wednesday night baseball teams: Sean McDonough, Aaron Boone and Rick Sutcliffe will handle Mondays and Dave O’Brien and Nomar Garciaparra will do Wednesdays.
The good news here is McDonough, who I like an awful lot. And while I’m generally opposed to three-man booths, any move that limits the amount of space Rick Sutcliffe feels he needs to fill is welcome.
O’Brien is pretty good himself. For the life of me I can’t remember Garciaparra’s commentary at all last year, though apparently he sat in on a few games with the O’Brien-Sutcliffe team. I guess the fact that I don’t remember him bodes well. If he was truly memorable, he probably wasn’t doing his job of enhancing, as opposed to disrupting the natural flow of a baseball game.
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- Jack Marshall - Jan 28, 2011 at 6:53 PM
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Sutcliffe? SUTCLIFFE??? ARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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- hermitfool - Jan 28, 2011 at 7:29 PM
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Rick Sutcliffe may be the only commentator dumber than Joe Morgan, but he’s even worse because he brays. Joe’s inane comments were at least spoken in a well-modulated voice, over and over and over.
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- thegoche - Jan 28, 2011 at 7:48 PM
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Would have loved to see Jon Sciambi get one of their big spots. Boog terrific with the Braves.
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- baseballstars - Jan 28, 2011 at 7:53 PM
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If there is a God in heaven, Rick Sutcliffe will not be allowed near a microphone ever again. As much as I don’t like Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, Sutcliffe is the worst. I have to mute the television when he’s announcing, usually synchronizing the game with something more pleasant, like Badgers Badgers Badgers on a loop.
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- pisano - Jan 28, 2011 at 9:07 PM
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Sutcliffe is the worst,all this jerk-off wants to do is talk about his past.He wasn’t worth a crap then and he’s worse now. I’ll never watch or listen to a game he announces or commentates on.
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- cup0pizza - Jan 28, 2011 at 10:19 PM
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Nomad does a good job.
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- Ari Collins - Jan 28, 2011 at 10:49 PM
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As a long-time Boston fan, McDonough and O’Brien are excellent.
Sutcliffe is as bad as everyone says, but hopefully he’ll be fairly quiet in a 3-man booth.
I don’t really remember Nomah either, and agree that that’s generally a compliment.
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- Kevin S. - Jan 28, 2011 at 10:51 PM
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Eh, I remember Nomar having a really herky delivery. Hopefully that’s just something that gets worked out with time.
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- Ari Collins - Jan 29, 2011 at 1:07 AM
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He has to adjust his microphone between each word.
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- Kevin S. - Jan 29, 2011 at 8:33 AM
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Nice.
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- Ari Collins - Jan 29, 2011 at 10:51 AM
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Thanks.
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- dansullivan82 - Jan 29, 2011 at 10:30 AM
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Im not sure I’ll be able to watch a game without Joe Morgan telling me how great he was.
