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3 hours ago, Frobby said:

So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

Bordick and Thorne both thought it was a popup off the bat. It just kept carrying. 

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14 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Fred is a good guy and a solid PBP announcer.  If this means Hunter for the rest of the games this season it's a definite downgrade.  

 

There seems to be more Dave Johnson than years past.

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17 hours ago, maybenxtyr said:

He always misjudged his fly ball and homerun calls. I let it irk me for a while, and then I kind of grew to expect it. I enjoyed his time overall though.

Makes me appreciate Chuck Thompson even more.  His standard call on potential HRs was "Fly ball well hit to deep xxxx field" and you could get a feel for how hard it was hit by the amount of emphasis he put on "well hit".  

Speaking of good play by play, the Twins tuned  5-4-3 triple play the other day.  Sano was standing right by third and the ball was hit to him.  He just had to go one foot to step on third then throw to 2nd and on to first for the TP.

MLB.com had all four calls of the TP in one video (Minn TV, Minn radio, opponent TV, opponent radio).  And one of them, I'm not sure which, said "There's a ground ball to Sano, should be three...".  I was very impressed with the "should be three" part in the heat of the moment.

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20 hours ago, Frobby said:

So I turned on my radio in the top of the third.   Fred is just coming on to do play by play.    I'm having warm fuzzy feeelings.    Benintendi hits a ball that that Fred identifies as "a sky high fly ball," as if it's a routine fly, then says the outifielder is drifting back on it, and then all of a sudden, it's a home run.   

How many times has Fred done that?   Nice man, and I hope he enjoys his retirement.      I won't miss his play by play even a little bit.  

Love ya Frobby, but boooooooo to this post.  No need to bring up the man's shortcomings in his appreciation thread!

Fred had the great ability of clearly letting you know who he was rooting for without being a homer.  That's tough to do, but him, Angel, Thorne and Palmer all do it very well.  Happy trails, Fred!

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6 minutes ago, glenn__davis said:

Love ya Frobby, but boooooooo to this post.  No need to bring up the man's shortcomings in his appreciation thread!

It wasn't labeled as an appreciation thread when I posted.    The thread title was changed later.    I apologize for raining on Fred's parade.   

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16 hours ago, weams said:

Very nice man. Has incredible stories to tell. 

At a time when announcers try to get away with mindlessly recited reams of uncontextualized stats, long experience with true baseball moments and the ability to retell them richly within the limited space of an at-bat or two is especially important.

Familiar though his name may be to us, the storyteller in his living immediacy is by no means a present force. He has already become something remote from us and something that is getting even more distant. [...] The art of storytelling is coming to an end. Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences.

--from Walter Benjamin's essay "The Storyteller" (publ. 1936) http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/frankfurt/storyteller.pdf 

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