Well, as long as I’m being crabby, I could do without Jon Miller too.
He has a habit of trying to punch excitement into everything that happens during a baseball game, whether or not appropriate. Typical call during, let us say, the second inning of a scoreless White Sox-Angels game in June:
“It’s a fly ball into shallow left field! He trots under the ball!! And makes the catch!!!”
We’ll be back with more heart-stopping action after these commercial messages.
Joe Morgan announces for ESPN.
Uh, Joe Buck is originally a Cardinals announcer. He knows his St. Louis sports, that guy.
And to input my Fox bashing into this post, I’ll repeat what I believe White Lightning said last year in our fantasy draft after I drafted Derek Jeter:
I don’t see how the two are mutually exclusive.
And yes, Munch, I’m aware that Joe Buck is a Cardinals’ announcer, but he’s been splitting his time with FOX national football and baseball telecasts for about ten years now, and he’s announcing the game like a FOX employee, following their format, which seems to prevent him from saying anything interesting. He has to do the play-by-play, of course, and fight his partner (who also should know more about the Cardinals than he’s letting on) for the microphone the rest of the time.
It’s hard to explain how these two can manage to be boring about the Cardinals. Perhaps the network broadcasting the series would find a way to step all over any announcing team, but I’d still like to try it.
I know, but Brainiac4 laid into him already, and I won’t pass up a chance to knock him in the Pit myself.
Yeah, he does do that sometimes, but when taken with the quality of the rest of his work, I give him the benefit of the doubt and go, “Oh, John,” playfully shaking my head, whereas with the Fox team, I make things airborne on the way to the TV.
Personally, I think Jon Miller is great. Pity he does so much announcin’ for the hated Giants.
But he was announcing during the ALCS, which was broadcast on Fox, at least here locally. So was he on detached duty, or was Fox picking up the ESPN feed?
Fox had everything after the Division Series, TV-wise. Joe Morgan has been working with John Miller on ESPN radio (presented by the US Postal Service) the whole postseason. Maybe you saw a clip with the ESPN radio broadcast over the Fox video? Or maybe Fox managed to borrow him for a a bit.
Just wanted to mention that up here in Canada, we had the choice of watching the Series on Fox or Sportsnet. Sportsnet was using the MLB International broadcast, which was blissfully McCarver-free! They didn’t make a point of advertising that fact, so it was only by chance that I discovered that channels 15 and 16 had different feeds. I hope that not too many of my fellow Canadians watched the Fox broadcast, assuming that it would be the same on both channels.
Not only McCarver-free, but also Scooter-free and advertisement-disguised-as-interview-free. Also, no Steve Lyons, but I guess he wasn’t on the Fox show either.