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GAME THREAD: A.L. Wildcard Playoff Game

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Nigel Tufnel Perennial All-Star

Nigel Tufnel

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Joe Sheehan's stealing my material.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Backing up a second... Why the hell wasn't Butler on second on the batted ball to begin with? Throw went into third and was offline.</p>— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) <a href="

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allquixotic Hangout Grand Counsel

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Denny Mathews, the Royals radio announcer is awful. He has about as much excitement as a mortician reading train schedules.

Yeah, but he's the ORIGINAL "Voice of the Royals" since the team was called the Royals in 1969! In certain jobs involving the public, companies can't get rid of old farts if they won't go willingly, because it would be a huge PR hit if the guy says "I wasn't ready, but they forced me out".

I'm not saying it's bad that they keep old farts around until they smell like they were dealt by Hammurabi. Their age is totally irrelevant IMO. But if they're not a particularly good announcer, you might wish for these types of people to have less.... tenure in their position, i.e., to make it possible that they might be removed due to job performance.

On the other hand, I expect Joe Angel to be every bit the classy gentleman he is right now, once he is older than Mathews. Angel is already about 66 (he was 43 in 1991 (source)) and he's much more entertaining than Mathews.

Basically, right now, age and tenure (probably tenure counts more than age) contribute to making it significantly harder for you to get canned. I don't think those factors should be a disadvantage either, but they should just be neutral factors. Some of the least entertaining announcers on MASN / WBAL are better than Mathews, IMO.

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One-game playoffs are really hard on the fans of the respective teams.

I know that I was going crazy 2 years ago, when we played the Rangers in Texas.

I was going to say. Even tho we're 1-0 these are BRUTAL games. For players and fans.

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