GaryMrMets
10-08-2006, 02:01 PM
Go halfway down in the article to read about Teufel & Zeile
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The booth hurts
Misinformed voices killing playoff games
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It always happens during baseball's postseason. National networks - Fox/ESPN - take over the coverage, voices parachute in and the dreaded trio - mistakes, misconceptions, massive hype - takes over.
Take Dodgers-Mets NLDS Game No. 2 Thursday at Shea. Jose Reyes at the plate and Fox's Thom Brennaman said: "There were some in this town who called this player soft . . . This is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kind of town."
If Brennaman was an artist his style would be abstract. See, it's hard figuring out the "some" he was referring to. Is there just one "some" or a few of them. Sam Some? Son of Some? Brennaman did not name names because there are no names to name.
These culprits are ghosts existing only in his mind. No one - not even "some" - ever called Reyes "soft." At one point in his career Reyes was injury prone - even brittle - but no one ever doubted his heart or willingness to play - even hurt.
It was the Mets organization that came under fire for not providing its phenom shortstop with better trainers, training techniques, and competent doctors.
At least Brennaman was talking baseball. The same cannot be said for Fox's in-house icon Joe Buck. This guy wears so many hats (baseball/football play-by-play, NFL pregame host, commercial pitchman) that he actually seems confused as to what sport he is working.
During the fifth inning of Tigers-Yankees ALDS Game No. 1 Tuesday night, up popped a promo for today's Cowboys-Eagles game. When he finished reading it, Buck, prompted by Tim McCarver (Buck may have mistaken T-Mac for Terry Bradshaw), began rapping about Fox's football pregame show before analyzing other NFL East matchups.
Why stop there? The Foxies should bring in Bradshaw, Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson to work with Buck. While he disappeared from baseball this weekend there is a good chance Buck will work the LCS and World Series.
About those mistakes. ESPN's Jon Miller had one Thursday (Tigers-Yankees ALDS Game No. 2) in the third inning. Sean Casey hit a grounder to the right side which Miller described: "(Derek) Jeter, far afield to get that one over to (Mike) Mussina covering (first base)." Jeter can cover plenty of ground, but even he could not cover that much ground. It was first baseman Gary Sheffield who went "far afield."
Then there was Gary Thorne who made his share of boo-boos on ESPN during Dodgers-Mets NLDS Game No. 1. As pointed out by the Molecular Sherri Shapiro, Thorne seemed to think he was working an American League game. He said Jose Valentin was the Mets "number nine" hitter. Then, with Valentin leading off an inning, Thorne said the Mets were sending their "nine, one, and two hitters" to the plate.
There could be a valid reason for this epidemic of botchitis. These network play-by-play voices are so busy reading promos, sending it back to the studio, pointing out celebrities, interviewing actors - while always trying to be witty - they are easily distracted and lose focus.
Whatever happened to just calling a baseball game?
Teufel, Zeile get tryout
SportsNet New York suits yesterday brought in two guest analysts - Tim Teufel and Todd Zeile - to work their NLDS pre- and postgame shows.
Both guys will be seen during the Mets' postseason run, but they are more than just guests. Spies say Teufel and Zeile were on SNY's "short list" when the network was forming its Mets broadcast team.
Now, there will be another opening. Next season, Ron Darling will be seeing more game action in a three-man booth with Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez. This will leave a seat open in SNY's studio for an analyst to work with Matt Yallof.
That makes Teufel and Zeile's postseason appearances auditions. While both of them may have an inside track, it is likely SNY brass will eventually cast a wider net looking for multiple candidates to fill the studio opening.
Fox off base with 'roid rage
On its regular season baseball pregame show, Fox has covered baseball's steroids/human growth hormone problems, but it hasn't exactly highlighted the controversy.
Yet when U.S. attorney Kevin Ryan said there were "significant inaccuracies" in a Los Angeles Times story which reported the names of players (including Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte) appearing in a federal affidavit filed in the Jason Grimsley case, Fox decided to make it the lead story on its NLDS Game No. 1 pregame show.
Jeanne Zelasko was so excited to issue this report she appeared to be hyperventilating while charging the newspaper was "out of control" in its pursuit of the story.
But it was Kevin Kennedy who came off as not only a bobo for Clemens, who he managed in Boston, but disingenuous as well. "It's always anonymous (sources) too," Kennedy said. "You're anonymous because you're gutless and you're not sure. If you got proof, put your name to it."
Thankfully, Kennedy was nowhere near Ben Bradlee, or the Washington Post building, during Watergate. And does Kennedy expect anyone to believe he never, ever played the role of anonymous source when he was a big league manager?
Patrick's ‘black out'
Did ESPN's Dan Patrick have something or nothing?
That all depends on which Bristol moles you speak to.
According to the Hartford Courant, Patrick was faxed Grimsley's affidavit with those "blacked out" player names the pitcher accused of juicing. "But the person who sent it to me, sent it with names written in over three spots," Patrick told the Courant's John Howell.
Patrick said Clemens' and Pettitte's names were written over two spots on the affidavit, which was faxed to him in June. Those names were also reported in the Times story. Another name, not reported by the Times, was on the document Patrick received, according to the Courant story.
Still, some Bristol moles are skeptical because the blacked out affidavit was posted on the Internet and available to anyone who wanted to see it. What was to stop anyone from penciling in any name? Which could mean Patrick actually had nothing.
Charley says . . .
Charley Steiner, now a voice for the Dodgers, was back in the city last week working the NLDS at Shea.
It is highly doubtful Steiner was inclined to make a quick trip to the Bronx to revisit his old stomping ground - the Yankee Stadium radio booth.
Spies say when a few people asked Steiner the same question - "How do you like living in L.A.?" - he gave the same answer.
"It's great," Steiner said. "I don't have to worry about John Sterling."
Dude of the Week
Torii Hunter
After costing his team ALDS Game 2, the Twins center fielder did not give one word answers, or make one blanket statement. Instead, Hunter - multiple times - explained why he decided to dive for Mark Kotsay's liner, which he misplayed into an inside-the-park home run. And Hunter did all this with a smile on his face. Considering how some guys get testy - or hide - after costing their team a game, Hunter's approach was unusual. It showed Hunter to be a standup guy - win or lose.
Dweeb of the Week
Adam (Pacman) Jones
For once again proving a brain is not necessary to play in the NFL. When asked about Titans teamate Albert Haynesworth's decision to jolly stomp the helmetless head of Cowboys center Andre Gurode, Jones said: "Albert got frustrated and let his actions take over. But that's football, man. I don't fault Albert for not one reason. That's football." No that's stupid. Hey, even Haynesworth did not try condoning his actions, which he "paid" for with a slap-on-the-wrist five-game suspension. Perhaps Pacman can read to Haynesworth during this period of downtime when he has no one to kick around.
Double Talk
What Stephon Marbury said: "In the NBA you have to deal with personalities as opposed to dealing with the game as a whole. You can't treat everybody the same."
What Stephon Marbury meant to say: "I'm the only one on the Knicks who deserves special treatment. And Isiah Thomas will be kowtowing to me on a daily basis."
Originally published on October 8, 2006
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Tim McCarver, left, and Joe Buck have talked as much about NFL as NLDS during baseball broadcast.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/459611p-386743c.html
The booth hurts
Misinformed voices killing playoff games
http://www.nydailynews.com/images/columnists/raissman_b.jpg
http://www.nydailynews.com/images/editors/header_tuningin.gif
It always happens during baseball's postseason. National networks - Fox/ESPN - take over the coverage, voices parachute in and the dreaded trio - mistakes, misconceptions, massive hype - takes over.
Take Dodgers-Mets NLDS Game No. 2 Thursday at Shea. Jose Reyes at the plate and Fox's Thom Brennaman said: "There were some in this town who called this player soft . . . This is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kind of town."
If Brennaman was an artist his style would be abstract. See, it's hard figuring out the "some" he was referring to. Is there just one "some" or a few of them. Sam Some? Son of Some? Brennaman did not name names because there are no names to name.
These culprits are ghosts existing only in his mind. No one - not even "some" - ever called Reyes "soft." At one point in his career Reyes was injury prone - even brittle - but no one ever doubted his heart or willingness to play - even hurt.
It was the Mets organization that came under fire for not providing its phenom shortstop with better trainers, training techniques, and competent doctors.
At least Brennaman was talking baseball. The same cannot be said for Fox's in-house icon Joe Buck. This guy wears so many hats (baseball/football play-by-play, NFL pregame host, commercial pitchman) that he actually seems confused as to what sport he is working.
During the fifth inning of Tigers-Yankees ALDS Game No. 1 Tuesday night, up popped a promo for today's Cowboys-Eagles game. When he finished reading it, Buck, prompted by Tim McCarver (Buck may have mistaken T-Mac for Terry Bradshaw), began rapping about Fox's football pregame show before analyzing other NFL East matchups.
Why stop there? The Foxies should bring in Bradshaw, Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson to work with Buck. While he disappeared from baseball this weekend there is a good chance Buck will work the LCS and World Series.
About those mistakes. ESPN's Jon Miller had one Thursday (Tigers-Yankees ALDS Game No. 2) in the third inning. Sean Casey hit a grounder to the right side which Miller described: "(Derek) Jeter, far afield to get that one over to (Mike) Mussina covering (first base)." Jeter can cover plenty of ground, but even he could not cover that much ground. It was first baseman Gary Sheffield who went "far afield."
Then there was Gary Thorne who made his share of boo-boos on ESPN during Dodgers-Mets NLDS Game No. 1. As pointed out by the Molecular Sherri Shapiro, Thorne seemed to think he was working an American League game. He said Jose Valentin was the Mets "number nine" hitter. Then, with Valentin leading off an inning, Thorne said the Mets were sending their "nine, one, and two hitters" to the plate.
There could be a valid reason for this epidemic of botchitis. These network play-by-play voices are so busy reading promos, sending it back to the studio, pointing out celebrities, interviewing actors - while always trying to be witty - they are easily distracted and lose focus.
Whatever happened to just calling a baseball game?
Teufel, Zeile get tryout
SportsNet New York suits yesterday brought in two guest analysts - Tim Teufel and Todd Zeile - to work their NLDS pre- and postgame shows.
Both guys will be seen during the Mets' postseason run, but they are more than just guests. Spies say Teufel and Zeile were on SNY's "short list" when the network was forming its Mets broadcast team.
Now, there will be another opening. Next season, Ron Darling will be seeing more game action in a three-man booth with Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez. This will leave a seat open in SNY's studio for an analyst to work with Matt Yallof.
That makes Teufel and Zeile's postseason appearances auditions. While both of them may have an inside track, it is likely SNY brass will eventually cast a wider net looking for multiple candidates to fill the studio opening.
Fox off base with 'roid rage
On its regular season baseball pregame show, Fox has covered baseball's steroids/human growth hormone problems, but it hasn't exactly highlighted the controversy.
Yet when U.S. attorney Kevin Ryan said there were "significant inaccuracies" in a Los Angeles Times story which reported the names of players (including Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte) appearing in a federal affidavit filed in the Jason Grimsley case, Fox decided to make it the lead story on its NLDS Game No. 1 pregame show.
Jeanne Zelasko was so excited to issue this report she appeared to be hyperventilating while charging the newspaper was "out of control" in its pursuit of the story.
But it was Kevin Kennedy who came off as not only a bobo for Clemens, who he managed in Boston, but disingenuous as well. "It's always anonymous (sources) too," Kennedy said. "You're anonymous because you're gutless and you're not sure. If you got proof, put your name to it."
Thankfully, Kennedy was nowhere near Ben Bradlee, or the Washington Post building, during Watergate. And does Kennedy expect anyone to believe he never, ever played the role of anonymous source when he was a big league manager?
Patrick's ‘black out'
Did ESPN's Dan Patrick have something or nothing?
That all depends on which Bristol moles you speak to.
According to the Hartford Courant, Patrick was faxed Grimsley's affidavit with those "blacked out" player names the pitcher accused of juicing. "But the person who sent it to me, sent it with names written in over three spots," Patrick told the Courant's John Howell.
Patrick said Clemens' and Pettitte's names were written over two spots on the affidavit, which was faxed to him in June. Those names were also reported in the Times story. Another name, not reported by the Times, was on the document Patrick received, according to the Courant story.
Still, some Bristol moles are skeptical because the blacked out affidavit was posted on the Internet and available to anyone who wanted to see it. What was to stop anyone from penciling in any name? Which could mean Patrick actually had nothing.
Charley says . . .
Charley Steiner, now a voice for the Dodgers, was back in the city last week working the NLDS at Shea.
It is highly doubtful Steiner was inclined to make a quick trip to the Bronx to revisit his old stomping ground - the Yankee Stadium radio booth.
Spies say when a few people asked Steiner the same question - "How do you like living in L.A.?" - he gave the same answer.
"It's great," Steiner said. "I don't have to worry about John Sterling."
Dude of the Week
Torii Hunter
After costing his team ALDS Game 2, the Twins center fielder did not give one word answers, or make one blanket statement. Instead, Hunter - multiple times - explained why he decided to dive for Mark Kotsay's liner, which he misplayed into an inside-the-park home run. And Hunter did all this with a smile on his face. Considering how some guys get testy - or hide - after costing their team a game, Hunter's approach was unusual. It showed Hunter to be a standup guy - win or lose.
Dweeb of the Week
Adam (Pacman) Jones
For once again proving a brain is not necessary to play in the NFL. When asked about Titans teamate Albert Haynesworth's decision to jolly stomp the helmetless head of Cowboys center Andre Gurode, Jones said: "Albert got frustrated and let his actions take over. But that's football, man. I don't fault Albert for not one reason. That's football." No that's stupid. Hey, even Haynesworth did not try condoning his actions, which he "paid" for with a slap-on-the-wrist five-game suspension. Perhaps Pacman can read to Haynesworth during this period of downtime when he has no one to kick around.
Double Talk
What Stephon Marbury said: "In the NBA you have to deal with personalities as opposed to dealing with the game as a whole. You can't treat everybody the same."
What Stephon Marbury meant to say: "I'm the only one on the Knicks who deserves special treatment. And Isiah Thomas will be kowtowing to me on a daily basis."
Originally published on October 8, 2006
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/928-raissman08.JPG
Tim McCarver, left, and Joe Buck have talked as much about NFL as NLDS during baseball broadcast.