As a longtime Cleveland Indians fan, I have to comment that Rich and
David are both 100% correct here.
Radio announcers call a more detailed game, since their listeners
have no picture to look at. The good radio announcers will point out
the pitch, e.g. "low and outside with a slider, ball two," when the
TV announcers may say nothing at all about the pitch. So, all serious
baseball fans prefer radio announcers to TV announcers, even if it is
not the home team announcers.
The same goes for football and basketball, actually. But, it is
disconcerting to listen to the radio and hear the words "jump shot
from the corner, no good" even before the picture on the TV shows the
player taking the shot.
There was one chief exception to this rule. That was Bob Prince, who
for many years was the radio announcer for the Pirates on KDKA in
Pittsburgh. Prince was legendary in Pittsburgh, and he also had a
wealth of baseball knowledge. But, he had a disconcerting habit of
telling long stories while action was taking place on the field,
which he failed to describe at all sometimes. He also was the biggest
homer in the history of announcers. If you tuned in during the middle
of the game, you could tell in a few seconds just by Prince's tone of
voice whether or not the Pirates were winning. At the end of the
game, if the Pirates won, he inevitably said, "We had 'em all the
way" even if the winning run scored on a close play at the plate in
the bottom of the ninth. As with most local announcers, he had local
mannerisms as well. Willie Stargell owned a chicken restaurant in
"The HIll" district of Pittsburgh. If Stargell hit a home run, all of
the customers in the restaurant at that moment got free chicken in
honor of the home run. So, if Stargell hit a home run, Prince would
call it as "chicken on the hill," not as a home run.
Nevertheless, Prince was an entertaining announcer, and it was common
for Pirates fans to listen to KDKA-1020 radio while watching the TV
feed of the game.
It was not uncommon during Indians-Tigers games for fans to switch
back and forth between WWWE-1100 (now WTAM with a retro call sign)
and WJR-760, so as to hear the difference between Herb Score's
(Indians) call of the game and Ernie Harwell's (Tigers) call of the
game. Both stations were clearly audible in both Tiger Stadium and
Cleveland Municipal Stadium, having 50 Kw apiece with the signal
travelling over water.
George Zeller
Cleveland, OH
http://www.nacs.net/~georgez
At 04:10 PM 10/25/2008, David Goren wrote:
More hometown flavor if you're listening to the local radio team
announce...
On Oct 25, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
OK, stupid question time.
Why would you want to watch the game as well as listen to it on the
radio?
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 14:58 -0400, Richard Cuff wrote:
I know some folks aren't fans of sports on radio...but this "Sport
Sync" radio that builds in a variable delay to allow synchronizing of
TV and radio play-by-play is a novel idea.
See
http://www.kyw1060.com/Tips-for-Watching-The-Phil-s-on-TV---Radio-Togethe/3199708
See also http://www.sportsyncradio.com/
Of course, if it weren't for all this digital whiz-bang technology,
we
wouldn't need this solution...
--
Mark Phillips, G7LTT/NI2O
Randolph, NJ
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