# How often do you listen to a game on the radio? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 10, 2017, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444 "2017-02-10T06:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/21 "2017-02-13T20:31:23Z")
I can’t remember the last time I listened to a full game on the radio. I will listen to the hometown calls of World Series and Stanley Cup Finals when a team is about to win the title, but I don’t usually start until the ninth inning or about 3 minutes left in the third period, accordingly. Other than that, the only time I listen to a game on the radio is when I am driving to or from somewhere for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/22 "2017-02-13T21:32:47Z")
I will listen to Packer games on the radio when 1. I’m driving and/or 2. It isn’t on network TV or 3. At the end of Sunday night games (listeningh while in bed) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/23 "2017-02-14T05:30:19Z")
I will watch baseball on TV whenever I can, but there’s something magical about a summer afternoon listening to a baseball game on the radio. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/24 "2017-02-14T05:45:28Z")
I listen to my Royals games on the radio (well, MLB Audio over the internet) as much as I possibly can. I’ll listen to football playoff games/Super Bowls on the radio. As for basketball, I did back when the Knicks were good, but not in a long time. I vividly remember hearing on radio when Reggie Miller made that incredible last-seconds comeback against them. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/25 "2017-02-15T04:35:02Z")
I don’t listen to games on the radio much since I retired from trucking 8 years ago. Only when I’m in the car and that’s usually unplanned. But when I was still trucking I had Sirius Satellite Radio and could listen to the Packers home radio feed any time I was somewhere I couldn’t watch the game. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/26 "2017-02-15T04:36:57Z")
I have never listened to any of those sports on the radio on purpose. And the said could be said for watching them on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/27 "2017-02-15T22:02:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Baseball is made for radio. You really don’t get _that much_ more out of it watching on TV. I completely agree. When we had a team in Montreal, I used to love sitting on the back porch listening to the games. Now we get TV broadcasts of all Jays games but no radio. My wife loves to watch them on TV and I sometimes just listen to the broadcast anyway. Back in the 50s (even late 40s) I used to listen to radio broadcasts of Eagles and Penn games. Later I watched the NFL (and eventually the CFL) on TV, but lost interest somewhere along the way. Although I do look at the Super Bowl usually, although most of the games are dull (with the notable exception of the most recent one). Basketball never interested me that much although I did go to a few Warriors games when I was much younger. I did see Wilt play, for example. Although I had also seen him when he (and I) were in HS. His school beat my school for the city championship one year. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/28 "2017-02-15T22:09:23Z")
I’ve listened to quite a few football games on the radio; for a while there until about 2003-ish, some of my university’s games weren’t televised, and were either solely radio broadcast, or were radio and/or pay-per-view. I’ve also listened to baseball on the radio- mostly in the context of long car trips where listening to the baseball play-by-play is an enjoyable way to entertain yourself. A very few were Astros NL playoff games when I working - a walkman and headphones while in the server room was pretty pleasant! ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/29 "2017-02-15T22:16:51Z")
I chose “often” for baseball and American football, although “occasionally” (as in a few times per year) would be a better fit. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/30 "2017-02-15T22:22:19Z")
actually at dodger stadium people used to listen to vin scully while watching the game and since every 3rd person had a boom box so youd always know what was going on even wile waiting for the john ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/31 "2017-02-16T06:56:31Z")
At Nats Park, they air the radio broadcast in the public areas like the bathroom so you don’t miss any of the game. I know people who listen to them on the radio at the game, but for some reason the internet version of their broadcast has delay so you need an actual radio for it to synch up. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/32 "2017-02-18T13:51:55Z")
I’ve listened to some NFL playoff games on the radio when stuck driving. Also I’ve listened to the draft when stuck driving. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/33 "2017-02-20T07:54:24Z")
In recent years, I listened to LA Dodger radio broadcasts whenever the game was not televised on Time Warner. Lucky for us in Japan, no games are blacked out all regular and post-season. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/34 "2017-02-21T03:40:07Z")
I often listen to baseball radio feeds from various games across the country via the MLB AtBat app. Especially Mets games, since I’m a Mets fan largely because of the excellent broadcasters they’ve had since the days of Bob Murphy (and how much I immediately loathed the Yankees radio voices in Sterling and Waldman - I remember enjoying Phil Rizzuto as a boy in the 1970s, and of course his turn in Meatloaf’s song, “Paradise By The Dashboard Light”). Whenever possible I try to mute the ESPN and Fox analysts and listen on the radio, which is generally ahead of the TV image by about 5-10 seconds, looking to the screen when an exciting play is developing. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/35 "2017-02-23T20:20:24Z")
Baseball and American football are well suited to radio broadcasts … basketball and hockey are too fast and really needs to be watched … ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/36 "2017-02-23T23:52:13Z")
I used to listen to baseball on the radio a lot. As teenagers we would go hang out somewhere on summer nights and drink beer and listen to the games. Every pop-up would be accompanied by the announcer doing his “…going…going…going… foul”, or it drop into a fielder’s mitt. Once it while it really was a homer. Better than nothing to pass the time, but that’s about the limit of it. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/37 "2017-03-14T13:48:26Z")
In college I had a job as an evening shift janitor, which allowed me to listen to almost every Portland Trail Blazers game from 1989-1991, which was pretty good timing. Sadly there were no MLB broadcasts in my area to get me through the summers. Since then it’s pretty much been only when a game I particularly cared about either wasn’t on tv or I didn’t have access to TV for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/38 "2017-03-14T18:41:28Z")
Years ago I remember someone writing a letter to the editor of Sports Illustrated where they asked “what could be more boring than watching golf on tv?” the editor responded “listening to golf on the radio?” ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444/39 "2017-03-16T11:49:02Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Cricket, often. +1 Cricket on the radio is simply better than the game as broadcast on TV. I’d go so far as to say TMS or the equivalent here on the ABC is better than watching the game live. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-listen-to-a-game-on-the-radio/779444.md?page=1)