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Going to miss Kevin, Jim, and Ben


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5 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I also never said I like Scott Garceau better. I’d prefer Kevin Brown to Garceau, obviously, but I just don’t really care for Kevin Brown. It’s not a schtick. 

And you are entitled to your totally wrong and misguided opinion.  I don’t think any less of you because of it.  Well, maybe a little.  

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20 minutes ago, Mooreisbetter27 said:

They seem to really like Gary Thorne.  We were top 6 in all their previous rankings with Thorne. 

As for the Nats broadcast... I have always found them completely unwatchable (unlistenable?).

I think it's almost entirely based on fan voting. Fan approval ratings. They also noted that they only received around 10,000 votes total compared to 60,000 the last time they did this. So, small sample size.

It would be interesting if the Hangout did similar approval ratings of Orioles commentary on a yearly basis.

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Palmer and Ben are #1.  I don't get the KB ire but I do think he is somewhat generic but good which works when Palmer and/or Ben are on.  I don't know how many agree but Thorne/Palmer is still one of my favorites - incredibly entertaining to the point that my wife would listen (only while doing other things).

Also, I remember when Melanie (radio) received pretty bad reviews here towards the beginning of the season and I was one of them.  I have listened recently and believe she has improved.  That is a tough job but I assume she has made a total effort to grow.  

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1 minute ago, Frobby said:

And you are entitled to your totally wrong and misguided opinion.  I don’t think any less of you because of it.  Well, maybe a little.  

I understand why people like him.  And when he's calling he action, he's fine.  He's actually pretty good.  

It's the the corniness, the pop culture references, trying to make a stretch out of tiny facts no one cares about, (And 2019's FIRST overall pick grounds out to 2019's SECOND overall pick) and all the other idiosyncrasies that drive me up a wall.

As far as TV PBP guys go over the course of my life I'd rank him a distant third behind Thorne and Mel Proctor and  well ahead of 4th place Jim Hunter and 5th place Michael "Randall K Myers" Reghi.

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I understand why people like him.  And when he's calling he action, he's fine.  He's actually pretty good.  

It's the the corniness, the pop culture references, trying to make a stretch out of tiny facts no one cares about, (And 2019's FIRST overall pick grounds out to 2019's SECOND overall pick) and all the other idiosyncrasies that drive me up a wall.

See, I like that stuff.  I especially enjoy it when he makes some cultural reference and Jim and/or Ben have no idea what he’s talking about.  I find that hilarious - even when I don’t know what he’s talking about, either.   But, different strokes for different folks.  

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1 minute ago, Frobby said:

See, I like that stuff.  I especially enjoy it when he makes some cultural reference and Jim and/or Ben have no idea what he’s talking about.  I find that hilarious - even when I don’t know what he’s talking about, either.   But, different strokes for different folks.  

That's fair, different strokes for different folks.  

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One of my earliest and favorite memories of the Kevin Brown hipster nerd brand was when he strained to get Glenn Gulliver mentioned somehow, and then some kind of pun about him being travelled.      I think he expected Ben to get the Swift allusion (not even a Taylor Swift one), and it just fell on dead air for about five beats.

It is jarring to think by next Wednesday he could be out of town calling some Conference Small Town football game on a purple field for ESPN Ocho because we have live sports 24-7-365, and in a few days his run here is as over as Jon Miller, Miggy, Votto, etc.

I heard them promoting the postseason postgame shows last night but I think that stuff goes to the Melanie Newman-Rob Long-Brett Hollander-Scott Garceau section of the MASN depth chart.

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