MLB 2024 Discussion Thread (Current Champions: Texas Rangers)

[SteveBrickNJ]

Tim McCarver

No. I think very highly of him. My age might be greater than you. I can remember back to the mid 70s. There was a guy before Tim McCarver.

 

[NYwdwfan]

He doesn’t know when to shut up. He’s worked a lot on TV with Joe Buck. Joe’s father, HoF broadcaster Jack Buck, hated working with McCarver.

That’s the issue with a lot of broadcasters. I can’t tell you how happy I was when the Raiders hired Gruden because it got him out of the booth.

 

[NYwdwfan]

No. I think very highly of him. My age might be greater than you. I can remember back to the mid 70s. There was a guy before Tim McCarver.

Bob Murphy?

I started watching baseball in 1983 when I was 10.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

No. I think very highly of him. My age might be greater than you. I can remember back to the mid 70s. There was a guy before Tim McCarver.

Lindsey Nelson. I think Kiner was the most annoying to me.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

Bob Murphy?

I started watching baseball in 1983 when I was 10.

Yup ....him too.

 

[Lucky]

Lindsey Nelson

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

Yup ....him too.

I like their current broadcast team. They have class. Good personalities. I like Citi Field wayyyyy better than Shea Stadium.....well who doesn't?

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

Bob Murphy?

I started watching baseball in 1983 when I was 10.

Ssshhh....don't tell anyone....but I also started watching baseball in the 5th grade....when I was 10. That was.............1972

 

[NYwdwfan]

I absolutely love Gary, Ron & Keith. I hate when the Mets play nationally televised games and I have to listen to a different team. I think it helps that Ron & Keith were part of the teams I grew up with so some of the stories they tell are from games I remember watching.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

I absolutely love Gary, Ron & Keith. I hate when the Mets play nationally televised games and I have to listen to a different team. I think it helps that Ron & Keith were part of the teams I grew up with so some of the stories they tell are from games I remember watching.

That makes perfect sense. When I first started watching the Phillies as a ten year old NJ boy...Tim McCarver was the personal catcher for the Phillies Ace Steve Carlton. So, when he went into the broadcast booth, I liked Tim McCarver for the same reasons you already stated about the Mets broadcasters.

 

[Lucky]

Ssshhh....don't tell anyone....but I also started watching baseball in the 5th grade....when I was 10. That was.............1972

That was the year I started listening to the Cardinals’ radio broadcasts on their Memphis affiliate. It was Mike Shannon’s first year as the color commentator. He’s still doing their games. He was terrible when he first started. I met Jack Buck at spring training once and told him I’d been listening to them since Shannon’s first year. He said “you must have heard a lot of mistakes then.”

 

[Lucky]

Dodgers’ star SS Corey Seager will have TJ surgery and miss the rest of the season.

 

[Dead2009]

MLB to announce Yankees-Red Sox games in London
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...-new-york-yankees-boston-red-sox-games-london

 

[NYwdwfan]

MLB to announce Yankees-Red Sox games in London
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...-new-york-yankees-boston-red-sox-games-london

I understand the desire to promote the game but geez that's a lot of travel.

 

[NYwdwfan]

deGrom is apparently ok.

Cespedes collected all his diamonds.

Phew.

 

[NYwdwfan]

I thought Julio was going to have a no-hitter today for awhile. Sorta stings when it gets snapped so close to the finish line.

I thought the Mets were going to get no hit today.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

I went on my sports app tonight and saw a ton of MLB scores but I couldn't find the Phillies score. Well....that's 'cause they have an off night.
DO YOU EVER FEEL CHEATED when it SEEMS like every team is playing but yours? I had that feeling for about 15 seconds tonight and then I realized that was immature and stupid

 

[Dead2009]

Is it football season yet?

 

[NYwdwfan]

After declining to be sent down to the minors, the Mets have designated Matt Harvey for assignment.

I’m stunned. I didn’t see it going down like this.

 

[Lucky]

After declining to be sent down to the minors, the Mets have designated Matt Harvey for assignment.

I’m stunned. I didn’t see it going down like this.

Crazy. The Orioles might take him. He can’t be worse than Chris Tillman.