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8/28
If you're in Cincinnati, there are plenty of good seats available. There aren't 2,000 people in the stands at first pitch.
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This is why Brennadouche is the worst announcer ever. The Reds' broadcast posts a graphic during Yelich's at bat of the players with "the highest percentage of hard hit balls" in the National League. Whatever the hell that means. Yelich is first. Acuna is second, Braun is third, Tommy Pham is fourth. I don't remember who was fifth, but he probably isn't as good as Pete Rose, either.
Brennaman drops his George Plympton imitation and starts shouting: "Ya know, the guy that really surprises me on that list is Pham, because when we last saw him he was reeeeeeally struggling. In fact, I think they've even shut him down."
There's a five second pause, during which time a producer is obviously telling Brennaman that Pham was traded to Tampa Bay a month ago. Pham went 2-for-5 on Sunday.
Brennaman: "Of course, those are National League numbers, and Pham is now in the American League."
This epitomizes Brennaman's entire career: Hatred of the Cardinals; only pays attention to one team; dispenses erroneous information and doesn't bother to correct it.
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Was there a brief time when one of the Brennamans worked with Harry Carry?
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Why would anyone refer to it as smothering the ball when the first baseman dives at a grounder and boxes it a third of the way to second?
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Mags wrote:
Was there a brief time when one of the Brennamans worked with Harry Carry?
I think Marty has worked with the Reds radio for his entire broadcasting career. I first became aware of him during the 1975 World Series, when NBC brought a "home" broadcaster into the booth for the national broadcast. If you hear the most commonly played call of Fisk's home run - "If it stays fair ... home run!" to end game six, the voice is Dick Stockton, who was at the time the Red Sox TV play-by-play guy.
Marty was supposedly a good broadcaster until the last decade or so, but he's become a cranky old man. And he'll drop a Big Red Machine reference every other inning or so.
Marty's obtuse son, Thom, mostly does TV for the Reds. I first became aware of him doing Diamondbacks' broadcasts. He supposedly left for Cincinnati to work with his father but I suspect he was pushed because the Diamondbacks wanted to hire Daron Sutton (whose tenure in Phoenix ended, incredibly, over a wardrobe issue.)
Someone at Fox who is obviously hearing-impaired hired Thom to do play-by-play as part of Fox's national baseball broadcasts - he was the play-by-play guy for the NLCS in 2004 and, I think, 2005 - and NFL broadcasts. He doesn't do national baseball on Fox anymore and I think he warrants the least attractive game on Fox's weekly NFL lineup these days.
Thom also occasionally does or used to do college football for Fox national. He became infamous for practically declaring his love for Tim Tebow on the air during the BCS championship game one year.
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Why would anyone refer to it as smothering the ball when the first baseman dives at a grounder and boxes it a third of the way to second?
If he doesn't know what the word "smother" means?
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Flats is going to win a Cy Young Award someday.
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Bucket of ice to Mr. Nova's table, please.
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Oh look. Cervelli is complaining about a called strike.
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I had a bad feeling about that one.
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