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I really enjoyed Mike on the radio when he did a few games last year. I think he could be a great pitching coach as well.

I had breakfast every morning with Ernie Tyler at spring training a few years back. Mike would always stop to talk with him. His family was very pleasant.

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I had breakfast every morning with Ernie Tyler at spring training a few years back. Mike would always stop to talk with him. His family was very pleasant.

Very cool to hear. I was always a big Mike Boddicker fan. He and Scott McGregor sttood out to me as very underrated Orioles who could almost always be counted out on to at least keep the O's in the game - game after game. Not stars - but dependable consistent players who you need to win.

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Very cool to hear. I was always a big Mike Boddicker fan. He and Scott McGregor sttood out to me as very underrated Orioles who could almost always be counted out on to at least keep the O's in the game - game after game. Not stars - but dependable consistent players who you need to win.

Dad's good friends with Scott McGregor.

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Jeter would be a good color guy. Can't believe Cal hasn't gone into the MASN booth to call games. He could do it. Andy MacPhail could call games.

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Cal calls games for TBS. pretty mediocre IMO.

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Cal calls games for TBS. pretty mediocre, IMO.

Really? Never seen him do it before.

If you did not see and hear Ripken, Jr. announcing the 2012 ALDS between the Orioles and the Yankees, you missed him at his worst. For the entire series, he was bending over backwards to praise the Yankees and to dis the Orioles, probably in an effort to not show favoritism toward his former team.

And announcing in a relatively objective manner without obliterating the team that you are obviously rooting for CAN be done (see Jim Palmer.) Cal tried it, and the results were disastrous.

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If you did not see and hear Ripken, Jr. announcing the 2012 ALDS between the Orioles and the Yankees, you missed him at his worst. For the entire series, he was bending over backwards to praise the Yankees and to dis the Orioles, probably in an effort to not show favoritism toward his former team.

And announcing in a relatively objective manner without obliterating the team that you are obviously rooting for CAN be done (see Jim Palmer.) Cal tried it, and the results were disastrous.

Jim had experience before calling O's games. Cal obviously hasn't, and he was just as happy as we were in 2012

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Cal calls games for TBS. pretty mediocre, IMO.

Really? Never seen him do it before.

If you did not see and hear Ripken, Jr. announcing the 2012 ALDS between the Orioles and the Yankees, you missed him at his worst. For the entire series, he was bending over backwards to praise the Yankees and to dis the Orioles, probably in an effort to not show favoritism toward his former team.

And announcing in a relatively objective manner without obliterating the team that you are obviously rooting for CAN be done (see Jim Palmer.) Cal tried it, and the results were disastrous.

Jim had experience before calling O's games. Cal obviously hasn't, and he was just as happy as we were in 2012.

He may have been happy about the Orioles making the postseason, but we aren't talking about that. We're talking about his color commentary. And since you said that you have never witnessed him do so before, I filled you in on how bad I thought that he was.

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He may have been happy about the Orioles making the postseason, but we aren't talking about that. We're talking about his color commentary. And since you said that you have never witnessed him do so before, I filled you in on how bad I thought that he was.

I know, but I think guys like Palmer have it easier because they called games on national TV since the 80's, and it's probably gotten easier for them over the years, versus Cal who rarely calls games and has been out since 2001

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