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That's a pretty low standard. Yes...Hunter is better than the worst crew in baseball, but he's still unbearable.

I really don't understand the people that say he has a good voice. His voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. I just feel like :drek:

Heh, true enough. I only brought them up because they're local and someone already brought them up last night. Everyone's got different perspectives on voices I guess. I don't particularly dislike his voice but he doesn't seem to have the great announcer voice that Thorne does. I still think our TV best option is Thorne/Palmer.

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Ever since Gary Thorne effused praise on Obama for his pick of Sonia Sotomayer for the Supreme Court back in 2009, I have never enjoyed his broadcasts. An announcer's political views have no place in a broadcast of baseball. Just talk about the GAME, I'm watching baseball to enjoy and relax. Obviously didn't help that I don't agree with his politics.

Yes, it's four years ago, but the impression lasts. That's why they say, politics and religion.....

I just don't like his redundancy: off-speed breaking ball.

By definition a breaking ball is an off-speed pitch.

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Those guys are characters in the booth, not robots. Remy is very funny with his self depreciating sense of humor. Hawk is such a homer that he makes the game funny. If I dont learn something I dont want to bored, neither are boring.
The only thing worse than the umpires thinking the game is about them, is the announcers thing it is about them. That's Remy and his little friend what's his name. If you find the game boring take up watching another sport.
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Joe is great at calling HR's. My favorite is "and there's the pitch...and it's a HR!!! Manfra is a joke. Just the other night it was "HIGH DRIVE!!!!....LF.... well... maybe not even the OF grass....and Hardy settles under it. :rolleyestf:

This.

The other thing Manfra does that's annoying is take extra long to get the play out of his mouth. Normally when something happens I have to depend on the crowd to know if the runner was safe or out, or if the ball was caught or not.

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The only thing worse than the umpires thinking the game is about them, is the announcers thing it is about them.

Not for me.

I'd rather listen to crappy announcers than to have umpires deciding to take matters into their hands for their own personal reasons, and potentially robbing teams of games.

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I wish Thorne, Hunter and Manfra would take some lessons from the quietly informative and articulate Vin Scully. The constant, and usually mindless, yammering, interspersed with meaningless statistics, that comes from the mouths of all the Orioles TV announcers is beyond maddening at times. They seem to think they have to be talking all the time and it really distracts from the game. It's gotten so bad that I usually turn the sound off and just watch the game.

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I wish Thorne, Hunter and Manfra would take some lessons from the quietly informative and articulate Vin Scully. The constant, and usually mindless, yammering, interspersed with meaningless statistics, that comes from the mouths of all the Orioles TV announcers is beyond maddening at times. They seem to think they have to be talking all the time and it really distracts from the game. It's gotten so bad that I usually turn the sound off and just watch the game.
The mind numbing stream of stats aren't coming from the announcers, they are coming from their producers. It's just worse with Hunter because he has nothing else to say, so he feels he must avoid the dead air with yet more stats.
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