Comments on: And the award for MLB’s most biased announcer goes to …

By: phillyphannn83

phillyphannn83 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:18:49 +0000

Who is Jerry Manual? Is he related to Charlie Manuel?

By: 4cornersfan

4cornersfan — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:53:44 +0000

Sterling and Susyn drove me to buy mlb.tv.

By: avietar

avietar — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:05:47 +0000

Harrelson’s not only the biggest “homer,” but, just as bad, the most floridly shameless showboat among all the sports announcers I’ve ever heard.

Harrelson thinks the whole broadcast is about HIM, and not what’s going on on the field (which is, of course, directly connected to his Republican campaign-like disregard for facts).

The sooner this disgrace retires, the better-served the White Sox, their fans and the entire game of baseball will be.

By: dadawg77

dadawg77 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:15:18 +0000

Your example isn’t Hawk’s homerism. His homerism is he cheers for the Sox and like the average Sox fan happy when they are winning while down when they’re losing. The type of homerism in your example is being a team shill and Hawk doesn’t do that. If the Sox plays like bums he says it or just doesn’t talk/bleeping out.
I like the fan approach but hate the shill.

Now I disagree with Hawk on certain especially Oakland, but he is stating his opinion and one that’s held by a lot of old timers.

By: adamsfore

adamsfore — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:36:02 +0000

HA!
The Expos are good for one season and the DC fans come outta the woodwork. somebody turn on the lights so the cockroaches will crawl back in to their holes.
Your city hasn’t been relevant in the sports world for years.

As for Santa Clause, that’s media hype. It was a drunk fan in a beat up Santa suit acting like a douche, got what he deserved. to top it all off it happened in 1968!

Here’s a link fron this very website.
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/10/21/yes-they-booed-santa-claus-heres-why/

By: imbetterthanyou

imbetterthanyou — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:32:23 +0000

He is entertaining in how flawed he is. I cannot stand to listen to his HR calls. But it is also funny to see how wrong he is on so many normal play calls in the field. It is great to hear him made fun of on the radio…

By: whitlockd

whitlockd — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:18:15 +0000

I’m sure I’ll be in the minority here, but Vin Scully is boring to me. He sounds has if he’s reading out of out of a baseball program. It would never happen, but I think he’s be improved by having a parther. The back and forth and the story telling of a broadcast team is part of the beauty of listening to/watching a game.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:16:40 +0000

Personally, I prefer objective coverage of my sports. Homerism in announcing is like the parents that brag about how smart their kids are and hang papers with C- grades on the fridge.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:12:57 +0000

@koufax

Best comment ever

By: bigharold

bigharold — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:52:27 +0000

“Sterlings’ schtick is beyond aggravating, considering we get stuff like this…”

You missed my favorites;

“Raul be seeing you in the right field seats” Ibanez likely cringes when he that.

And, .. one I actually use from time to time;

“He’s Swish-a-licious”

Can’t take this stuff too seriously.

By: dcfan4life

dcfan4life — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:38:42 +0000

No one ever takes Philly fans serious cuz you morons booed santa. Your all out of your minds. That may make you homers, but every angle you use to make your points about your teams are always ridiculous. Once you fanbase finally convinces your owners to fire Jerry Manual and Andy Reid and go back to mediocrity the better, so we can hear one less idiotic comment from a Philly fan.

By: bubbalynch

bubbalynch — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:14:03 +0000

1 homerism for Kruk & Kuip? very, VERY doubtful! with that zoo in SF?

By: ptfu

ptfu — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:29:10 +0000

Agreed. What I didn’t expect is that Hawk & Stone would have more homerisms than the next SEVEN announcing teams combined.

By: phillyphannn83

phillyphannn83 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:56:16 +0000

This “report” is so inaccurate its laughable. This guy clearly has no idea what being a homer means. What it really means is that you think your team is better than they really are despite proof otherwise; I should know, look at my screename. The Philadelphia fanbase is constantly accused of this. Truth is, every fanbase has fans that are homers, the difference with Philly is we have more vocal fans than other teams so it seems more glaring that were homers(was that a homer statement? hmmm) This guy think that an announcer saying we instead of they or making an awesome play-by-play call(which is their job!!!), makes him a homer. Here’s one example he gives by I think the Pirates broadcast team: “the two games he pitched against us, he was lights out” whereas if they said “the two games he pitched against THEM, he was lights out” that’s not a “homer” statement. The truth of the matter is that this statement, no matter how it is worded is not a biased statement, its a FACTUAL statement. Here is a biased, homer statement: “the Phillies have the best pitching staff in baseball.” This writer thinks if an announcer says “We have the best pitching staff in baseball” THAT makes it a homer statement, because he said “we” not the content of the statement which isn’t factually correct. He is so wrong its laughable. The reason most announcers say we or us instead of they or them is because the announcers WORK FOR THE TEAM! They represent the team so its natural to say us or we. Its just like us fans, when talking about our team we usually say us or we because that’s our team. Were not on the team or paid by the team but we refer to it as our team like we are. That doesn’t make you a biased homer, saying illogical things that aren’t backed up by proof or numbers does.

By: schmedley69

schmedley69 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:53:22 +0000

Every announce team should have a heel announcer, ala Bobby “The Brain” Heenan or Jesse “The Body” Ventura, who roots for the opposing team, just to even things out.

By: Gobias Industries

Gobias Industries — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:47:16 +0000

I’d much rather be a guy that complains about the objectivity of an announcer than a pompous prick that goes out of his way to complain about guys that complain about the objectivity of an announcer.

By: natstowngreg

natstowngreg — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:55:25 +0000

Or does the Subway commercials?

By: petey1999

petey1999 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:36:48 +0000

Don’t confuse Remy’s comments about the RS with those plugging his restaurant and numerous other side ventures.

By: stairwayto7

stairwayto7 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:55:41 +0000

Have you never heard a Red sox game? Jerry Remy thinks the redsox never make an out! BIGGEST HOMER EVER!

By: angrycorgi

angrycorgi — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:43:54 +0000

Everytime the Sox lose its the umps fault, according to this clown.

By: husky2score

husky2score — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:23:38 +0000

Hawk the Sqwuack!!!!!!!!

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:17:50 +0000

No question the A’s and Giants have very good-to-excellent announcing crews. My personal bias is for Miller/Krukow over Kuiper/Krukow, but I suspect that comes as much from my fondness for Miller when he was with the O’s and I was living back East and the O’s were my favorite team since I was little.

Two little nits: listening to only one broadcast is a lot like having only 1 data point. The author really needs to listen to several broadcasts.

Two: The A’s, with their appalling owners, could still screw this up. This year they had company hack Scott Hatteberg in the booth for 20 games. Talk about nails on a chalkboard.

By: shaggylocks

shaggylocks — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:09:27 +0000

I’d be interested to see a study with radio announcers as well. I was once driving through New York state and after searching the airwaves for some baseball found the Yankees game in progress on the radio. I think I had to wait an inning and a half before they finally mentioned the name of the opposing team, by which time I had figured it out on my own after they mentioned Ichiro (pre-trade game, obviously. I didn’t know many of the other position players on that team). Whenever the Yankees were up at bat they gushed about their offensive prowess, and when the Mariners were up the focus was on the Yankees inspiring and athletic defense. The Yanks are undoubtedly good, but I started wondering if I was missing accurate descriptions of the M’s defensive plays after hearing what sounded like a heads up bang-bang double play by the Mariners described only in relation to how the Yankees base runners just barely missed the bag. When the M’s hit into a double play earlier in the game it was all about Jeter and Cano’s fielding ability. I suppose if you’re a Yankees fan you might like that, but as a listener without a horse in the race I found the homerism incredibly annoying.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:01:58 +0000

Oh….so it isn’t the guy that owns all those jewelry stores?

By: moogro

moogro — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:57:30 +0000

I don’t mind the homerism. The worst thing about Hawk’s Yeayes! is that he thinks it’s OK to do vocally what comic books do graphically. Somebody has got to tell him that he isn’t being translated into comics. Reminds me of the fake yell-voice that 5 year olds do when they do play-by-play as they crash their toy planes into the ground. “He’s going to craaash! Oh Nooooo!” Fingernails on the chalkboard.

By: randall351

randall351 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:35:35 +0000

Well I call BS because according to the article they watched a Royals game where Jeff Montgomery was announcing instead of Rex Hudler, so you know that just throws the whole “study” out the window.

Sexy Rexy would give Hawk a run for his money any day of the week.

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:33:39 +0000

The real Diamond is Neil Diamond.

By: hokiegajanisgod

hokiegajanisgod — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:26:34 +0000

John Sterling will NEVER be appreciated in any year. He’s an embarrassment…

By: hokiegajanisgod

hokiegajanisgod — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:24:17 +0000

tommy heinson = a green god!!!!

If sure some Celtic fan has already issued a fatwa…no one disrespects Tommy!

By: hokiegajanisgod

hokiegajanisgod — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:22:31 +0000

John Sterling and his wench sidekick = Easily the worst, if not biased announcers, in baseball today.

They’re awful…just terrible.