# Ken "Hawk" Harrelson will work a reduced schedule this year **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 13, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045 "2016-01-13T17:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/1 "2016-01-13T17:37:42Z")
> **[White Sox name Jason Benetti new TV announcer to sub for Hawk Harrelson](https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct-white-sox-new-announcer-20160112-column.html)** > > Jason Benetti has compelling storylines as a young man from the Chicago area who has cerebral palsy \*Ken Harrelson will be working a reduced schedule. With a few exceptions, the 74-year-old announcer will be calling the Sox road games, saving him the 180-mile, round-trip grind of commuting to games at U.S. Cellular Field from his home in South Bend, Ind. Analyst Steve Stone will be back, working with Harrelson and Benetti. - don’t know who this new guy is and I don’t care. Looks like I will be watching fewer Sox games this year A lot of people will be happy about this because Hawk is very unpopular but we true fans love him HE GONE ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/2 "2016-01-13T23:33:18Z")
Have the White Sox thought of trading for John Sterling (of the Yankees) and Dave Lapham (of the Cincinnati Bengals)? With those two added to the broadcast team, you’d have the most repulsively homer-rific broadcast team of all time.\* \*extra points for raising Harry Caray from the dead. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/3 "2016-01-14T00:14:23Z")
Steve Stone is the only thing that makes watching Sox games the least bit bearable. I suppose the same could have been said of the Harry Caray years, too, with the Cubs. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/4 "2016-01-14T14:53:36Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Have the White Sox thought of trading for John Sterling (of the Yankees) and Dave Lapham (of the Cincinnati Bengals)? With those two added to the broadcast team, you’d have the most repulsively homer-rific broadcast team of all time.\* > > \*extra points for raising Harry Caray from the dead. They’d need to bring along Susyn Waldman to get the full Yankee experience. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/5 "2016-01-14T15:59:51Z")
Call me crazy but I like Hawk. Sure, he’s a homer. I don’t care, he makes the game enjoyable. Give me Hawk over Buck any day. ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/6 "2016-01-14T16:47:36Z")
One of the funniest sites I’ve ever seen is this one dedicated to: [Heaving the Hawk](http://www.heavethehawk.com/) From site home page: > [@](#): > > This website is dedicated to the removal of White Sox television broadcaster Ken “Hawk” Harrelson. Mr. Harrelson’s unique blend of non-standard English and ego-maniacal blather has made the mute button a must for Sox T.V. viewers during the last four decades. Elsewhere the site relates that earlier as Sox General Manager Hawk fired Tony LaRussa, and traded Bobby Bonilla for a nobody. I’ve never listened to the guy myself, but I hope he is not as bad an announcer as the was a GM. Elsewhere the site tells us GM Hawk tried to move the team to Florida, which right there should be enough to ensure eternal enmity among Sox fans. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/7 "2016-01-14T16:51:32Z")
They’ve announced who’s going to replace him, but I didn’t recognize the name. I’ve also heard that Hawk will still do the games vs the Cubs. I’ll have the radio on, and the tv muted. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-hawk-harrelson-will-work-a-reduced-schedule-this-year/743045/8 "2016-01-14T18:41:52Z")
How will we know if you can put it on the boooooard? YES! I’m not a White Sox fan but I always liked Hawk.