On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM, JW<[email protected]> wrote:
Most announcers, if you see enough of them, become tiresome. Comments
> that were insightful the first time you heard them become trite by the
> twentieth or two hundreth repetition. (It's how John Madden seemed to
> become a caricature of himself.)
That is right - and, depending on your taste and background, some
announcers will become tiresome more quickly than others.
Morgan's inexact and intuitive style (e.g. assuming Jeeter's median
annual home runs is around 25 instead of 18) is annoying to me too at
times, but then, so is the habit of some other announcers of giving
overly precise statistics that have little or no practical
application, or are so ex post facto as to be meaningless ("only 3
other players in history have hit more than 200 home runs to left
field, hit more than .300 against knuckleball pitchers, and stolen
more than 100 bases against left hand catchers in day games"). I find
Morgan's stories about what Stan Musial said to him when he was
breaking in, or talking to Henry Aaron in all-star games, or coaching
strategies of Sparky Anderson, comforting, even when hearing them for
the nth time. After all, much of the appeal of baseball is the
repetition of familiar patterns. In most other sports it drives me
crazy when announcers use cliches, but in a baseball game I expect and
look forward to them, and their absence is noticed and missed. When
the pitcher gets walked, I need to hear someone say "that is the
cardinal sin in baseball", and Morgan is the kind of guy who can be
counted on to deliver.
Different strokes for different folks - though I do have a very hard
time understanding how anyone who likes baseball could not love Jon
Miller. Having learned my baseball at the knee of VIn Scully, I find
Miller to be head and shoulders above anyone else doing baseball play
be play today.
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