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I hate the labeling of pitchers. I would take a solid three starters in a rotation over a Kershaw and a bunch of Chad Kuhls.



There is no team in all of baseball where Gerrit Cole would not be in their rotation. None, in all of baseball.

323730363E342D30392A2C21580 wrote: Joe Block actually thought the cheese wiz going on a Philly cheese steak was mustard. What a flipping idiot he is. I hate when he is on TV.


Agree, agree, agree. Wiz or mustard, I would like both on my steak sandwich and so does Block I bet.



As for the eating in the booth and discussing what is in a Philly Steak, save that stuff for pre-game or post-game. Need to keep us up on what is happening in the game. It kills me when I am in bed at nite and the announcers rely so much on me actually watching the game rather than just listening to it. Do like the color of Blass, Walk, the Rock but Brown and Block should stick to play-by-play. They need to listen to a couple tapes of The Gunner to learn how it was done.



At first glance, I thought it was mustard too.  To me cheese should have more of an orange tint than that stuff does.  I always thought that Cheeze Whiz stuff in the jar was gross, personally.  Anyway, why hate on the man for something so puny, especially when he and everyone else was making fun of him over the incident.  That stuff always annoys me anyway.  I want to watch baseball, not greasy sandwiches with too much bread and too little meat.  If they have enough time between pitches to show sandwiches then they really do need to speed up the game.

The radio broadcast and TV broadcasts are different. Back in the day, announcers did both. Some still do.



There is so much downtime, that I don't mind the chit chat in the booth. It is also a good plug for the vendors. It wasn't like we missed a play or a call while they discussed cheese steaks.



Wehner works best with Block. I feel Block is trying to fit in with Walk, Blass, and Wehner, but they aren't letting him in just yet.

We're saying these things as if baseball announcers haven't ALWAYS gone on about nothing. I'd argue that that's part of the charm of listening on the radio.



When he chose to stay focused, Prince could deliver a very accurate, exciting play-by-play description. But he rambled-a lot. He would say hello to older fans listening at home who couldn't make it to the ballpark ("The shut-in lists are important," Prince argued. "When you mentioned the name of a fan in Delmont, [Pennsylvania], you made that person feel like a million dollars, especially if he or she was laid up in bed. He or she was recognized."). He told stories that had nothing to do with baseball. Seemingly no subject was off limits. He talked about the splendor of the trees in Schenley Park beyond the left field wall. He talked about his friends. He talked about college football. One fan recalls a broadcast in which "The Gunner" enlightened fans with an extended discourse about driving in fog.



Most Pirate fans seemed to like this kind of thing. Prince was funny, intelligent, and interesting-a genuine entertainer. But he also drove some people crazy. Now and then, a cry of "Shut up, Prince!" would emanate from the Forbes Field stands. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pirates from 1950-1955, couldn't stand Prince. Rickey, a self-professed expert on almost everything, once wrote an epistle on baseball broadcasting in which he sniffed, "There should be very little horseplay in a broadcast. It is a business proposition. Every now and then an anecdote is quite proper...Broadcasters should have frequent conversations with club owners or secretaries...Scores of other games are interesting...The most important thing in all this world for a broadcaster is to have in mind constantly that 1,000 people have just turned on their radios and immediately start asking themselves 'Who is playing? What's the score?'" Rickey's broadcasting philosophy was anathema to Prince, who claimed to have never gone into a booth with anything more than a pencil, a scorecard, and his imagination. Rickey went so far as to criticize Prince in a memo to the Pirates' board of directors, claiming Prince detracted from the game with "editorial comment and comparison. He [also] has unfortunate stretches of silence until anyone trying to get the game on the dial would think that there was no broadcast."


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