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Ben is the key.  I can imagine the hilarity with him and Gary Thorne.  The more Kevin is away, the less I miss him.  Arnold is good, but it's the Ben factor that makes them both good.  I love Jim, but I have to have him in small doses.  I hate when it becomes the Jim Palmer Show.  I love his stories and insights, it's just that times - perhaps inadvertently - it becomes him talking about himself.

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I have my opinions and they have theirs. I've been in broadcasting for close to 50 years now . Ive been a play by play and color analyst  myself, though thats not what I do best.. I've seen and heard

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I'll just offer my opinion. I DO think I know something about broadcasting, if that matters. But my opinion is, Kevin Brown is the best Oriole PBP man since Jon Miller. He's to me..an absolute gem of

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Kevin brings not just a solid and accurate play by play voice and presence to the broadcast, but also respect for the heritage of the Orioles. How many 34 year olds could reference "Aint the Beer cold

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2 hours ago, OnlyOneOriole said:

 

And where is Jim Palmer and Brown?  I watch via the MLB app on the Os network fyi. 

Brown will be back on Tuesday for the Toronto series. And I believe Palmer will be back at some point during the next homestand.

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49 minutes ago, OnlyOneOriole said:

Yeah I don't understand the hate for Brown.   I grew up listening to Ernie Harwell and George Kell as play by play guys in MI.  And he is just as good.  I don't get the hate.

Near as I can tell, folks don't like the way Brown strays from baseball at times when things are quiet. That's about all I can really garner.

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I have my opinions and they have theirs. I've been in broadcasting for close to 50 years now . Ive been a play by play and color analyst  myself, though thats not what I do best.. I've seen and heard the greatest announcers in multiple generations. Scully, Jack Buck, Harwell, Bob Costas,Chuck Thompson, Jon Miller, all are HOF announcers and I've heard and seen many more. I'll say it again.

Kevin Brown is the best young announcer in baseball and easily the best the Oriole announcer since Miller. You dont have to agree, and many don't. I just value my opinion based on literally tens of thousands of hours listening and watching the best of the best. And he's the best of this generation's best. I think he's superb. And he'll get better too, if the Orioles keep him at the microphone.

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2 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

Scully, Jack Buck, Harwell, Bob Costas, Chuck Thompson, Jon Miller, all are HOF announcers and I've heard and seen many more. I'll say it again.

Kevin Brown is the best young announcer in baseball and easily the best the Oriole announcer since Miller. You don't have to agree, and many don't. 

So much of it is a generational and who you grew up with kind of thing.  I grew up with Chuck Thompson, so for me he was the standard for many years.  Jon Miller was great too, and the O's were stupid to chase him away. 

But even after living in LA for many years I could never get used to Vin Scully.  He was just too different from the Oriole guys I grew up with, especially how it was just him with no one else to talk to.  

I remember when Brooks Robinson and Jim Palmer did games together.  That was like the baseball gods came down from heaven and decided they wanted to want to eat some peanuts and keep score of the game with the rest of us -- if just for a couple years..

I think Kevin Brown is pretty good.  Again, different from what I grew up with, but I accept change and occasionally come around to like it.

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1 hour ago, FlipTheBird said:

Near as I can tell, folks don't like the way Brown strays from baseball at times when things are quiet. That's about all I can really garner.

I must be in the minority then.  I appreciate when he strays from the action and engages Ben or Jim.  I can't say that I hear him when he's doing ESPN, tho.

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I liked John Lowenstein a lot, but I can't remember who he was paired with.  Was it early Miller?  I just don't remember, but I loved his humor, stories, and insights.  I think he fell out of favor for being a bit too critical.  But he wasn't a play-by-play guy.

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59 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

I have my opinions and they have theirs. I've been in broadcasting for close to 50 years now . Ive been a play by play and color analyst  myself, though thats not what I do best.. I've seen and heard the greatest announcers in multiple generations. Scully, Jack Buck, Harwell, Bob Costas,Chuck Thompson, Jon Miller, all are HOF announcers and I've heard and seen many more. I'll say it again.

Kevin Brown is the best young announcer in baseball and easily the best the Oriole announcer since Miller. You dont have to agree, and many don't. I just value my opinion based on literally tens of thousands of hours listening and watching the best of the best. And he's the best of this generation's best. I think he's superb. And he'll get better too, if the Orioles keep him at the microphone.

I agree. People forget the years of polish on the greats. This is like the Casino Royale years where sure he’s Bond, but he’s still a rookie. As far as great Oriole announcers go, I can’t say enough about Joe Angel. He even took the time to call my dad and talk O’s baseball for a half hour when my pop was going through it. Anyway, Roy, I agree. Kevin is one of the very best!

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29 minutes ago, drjohnnyfever1 said:

I must be in the minority then.  I appreciate when he strays from the action and engages Ben or Jim.  I can't say that I hear him when he's doing ESPN, tho.

Me too.

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Of course I know you don’t care.  But it gets a little tiring that you keep bringing it up.  You don’t like Kevin Brown. We get it.  There are people who like AC/DC better than the Beatles.

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2 hours ago, drjohnnyfever1 said:

I liked John Lowenstein a lot, but I can't remember who he was paired with.  Was it early Miller?  I just don't remember, but I loved his humor, stories, and insights.  I think he fell out of favor for being a bit too critical.  But he wasn't a play-by-play guy.

Mel Proctor and Brother Low on HTS. Will catch a game of theirs on YouTube every once in a while.  

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