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Pancakes posted:We celebrate now but when they use Joe Buck next year instead we'll all pine for "Back, back, back, GONE!" Did people dislike Berman? I think an overly-excitable manbaby is the perfect person for it.
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Pancakes posted:We celebrate now but when they use Joe Buck next year instead we'll all pine for "Back, back, back, GONE!" "We'd like to present our special guest announcer for the Home Run Derby: the White Sox' own Hawk Harrelson!" "LET'S SEE HOW MANY HOME RUNS WE CAN PUT ON THE BOARD!"
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Inspector_666 posted:Did people dislike Berman? I think an overly-excitable manbaby is the perfect person for it. Berman could have easily been replaced with a sound board containing 2 maybe 3 samples set on loop and no one would have noticed.
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Popete posted:Berman could have easily been replaced with a sound board containing 2 maybe 3 samples set on loop and no one would have noticed. For a game specifically about mashing taters like it's a dumb video game that's extremely appropriate.
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Paul Zuvella posted:For a game specifically about mashing taters like it's a dumb video game that's extremely appropriate. Yeah this doesn't seem like a refutation of what I said. The HRD is dumb as hell and that's why it's great. I don't need somebody to provide analysis of anything.
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I always got the feeling he sat there with a map so he could do as many variations as possible of "that one was hit to [local place name]".
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i want a soothing PGA golf announcer to do the home run derby
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Pancakes posted:We celebrate now but when they use Joe Buck next year instead we'll all pine for "Back, back, back, GONE!" ESPN has almost always hosted the HRD. Joe Buck is employed by Fox.
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seiferguy posted:ESPN has almost always hosted the HRD. Joe Buck is employed by Fox. Buck's Fox contract only has another couple of years on it... 
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Sydin posted:"We'd like to present our special guest announcer for the Home Run Derby: the White Sox' own Hawk Harrelson!" He'd be deadly silent during every non-White Sox contestant's dingers. Which I think would be a big improvement.
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They should just hold a raffle/contest for a fan or two to announce the HRD. It is the definition of low stakes and could be a lot of fun to see some morons do it.
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Give the players headsets and let them call their own dingers. Or each other's.
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Julio Cruz posted:Give the players headsets and let them call their own dingers. Or each other's. This would be rad. Just mic everybody.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:They should just hold a raffle/contest for a fan or two to announce the HRD. It is the definition of low stakes and could be a lot of fun to see some morons do it. If I won it would just be a series of bleeps on all the big shots since my reaction is invariably 'holy loving poo poo.'
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Get Gilbert Gottfried to do it.
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Soul Glo posted:This would be rad. Just mic everybody. Players usually are mic'd up, though? In one of his HRDs, while up, Mark McGwire didn't quite square up a ball and cussed super loud into the mic which was broadcast on live TV. The announcers were like "uh... well, this is a live event" because that was prior to the delay after the wardrobe malfunction.
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Re-animate the corpse of 1960 Home Run Derby TV series host Mark Scott and have him do it. "A-wayback, a-wayback, a-wayback... it's gone!"
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seiferguy posted:Players usually are mic'd up, though? In one of his HRDs, while up, Mark McGwire didn't quite square up a ball and cussed super loud into the mic which was broadcast on live TV. The announcers were like "uh... well, this is a live event" because that was prior to the delay after the wardrobe malfunction. They aren't any more, probably for this reason. The most they do now is 30-second on-field interviews.
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Nick Rivers posted:Re-animate the corpse of 1960 Home Run Derby TV series host Mark Scott and have him do it. I would watch the poo poo out of offseason home-run derbys with today's players.
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Your Taint posted:I would watch the poo poo out of offseason home-run derbys with today's players. they did this some years ago and nobody watched it
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Give me a homerun derby consisting of players with sub .350 slugging over a full season. Just a bunch of Billy Hamiltons.
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This is just a reminder that sports team owners are ridiculously wealthy slimeballs and the eventual collapse of the RSN TV bubble couldn't happen to a nicer group of folks. http://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2016-12-23%20Portman%20and%20McCaskill%20letter%20to%20Comcast%20re%20billing%20practices.pdf
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Craptacular! posted:This is just a reminder that sports team owners are ridiculously wealthy slimeballs and the eventual collapse of the RSN TV bubble couldn't happen to a nicer group of folks. The bursting of that bubble is going to be used to justify massively slashing payroll so I dunno how much I am rooting for it.
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Serious post: Just let Cespedes Family BBQ do the HRD.
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tadashi posted:Serious post: I'm pretty amazed at how those dudes have gone legit, not bad for something that seemed to start as a part-time college lark.
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Inspector_666 posted:The bursting of that bubble is going to be used to justify massively slashing payroll so I dunno how much I am rooting for it. It's still money from the pockets who give no poo poo about your sport and just want to watch CNN or Syfy or something. Besides, it's up to MLBPA to convince owners that a winning baseball team is the best way to draw money instead of the next Marlins Park boondoggle. Just make the RSN an optional expense for sports fans, like an HBO or something. People who want the games will pay for it. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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tadashi posted:There's another story via Jason Parks from his old Rangers sources that Maddux used to tell the young Texas pitchers that throwing a curve is like jerking off: just do what feels good. That is just terrible advice (for jerking off, not curveballs).
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Inspector_666 posted:The bursting of that bubble is going to be used to justify massively slashing payroll so I dunno how much I am rooting for it. The 90's boom was new stadiums, when that dried up it became RSNs, I have no idea what's next since you can't really go to online any more than MLB has without knifing your cable partners in the back. We're probably a generation away (if ever) that cities will be willing to play the stadium game again so what's left but to maybe try to pull off what the Cubs are doing with a bigger, grander Yawkey Way sort of a deal- hotels, entertainment, etc. to make the ballpark area as much of a year round attraction as possible. Craptacular! posted:Just make the RSN an optional expense for sports fans, like an HBO or something. People who want the games will pay for it. I think ESPN figured out decades ago that 20 bucks a month from sports fans < 4 bucks (double that for ESPN) from everyone. GoatSeeGuy fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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Soul Glo posted:I didn't know any of these things about Maddux and it seems like he owns? Very much so
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Let the Cespedes Family BBQ kids call the HRD efb
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tadashi posted:Serious post: Nah, let Carson Cistulli do it. Make it weird spergy
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Soul Glo posted:I didn't know any of these things about Maddux and it seems like he owns? When I was pitching competitively Maddux was like the archetype of what all of us wanted to be...no one was going to 8 feet tall with a 140 mph fastball like RJ or be able to whip a curveball like Pedro but hell, some of us could throw harder than Maddux! Plus, mechanics, etc! So the end result is we basically all tried to do everything that Maddux did, the culmination being when one of my teammates stopped wearing contacts and started wearing glasses during games in order to look more professorial.
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GoatSeeGuy posted:The 90's boom was new stadiums, when that dried up it became RSNs, I have no idea what's next since you can't really go to online any more than MLB has without knifing your cable partners in the back. We're probably a generation away (if ever) that cities will be willing to play the stadium game again so what's left but to maybe try to pull off what the Cubs are doing with a bigger, grander Yawkey Way sort of a deal- hotels, entertainment, etc. to make the ballpark area as much of a year round attraction as possible. They should add a second league the plays in the off-season so they can fill seats year-round. Too bad for teams that don't have domes.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:They should add a second league the plays in the off-season so they can fill seats year-round. Too bad for teams that don't have domes. Someone tried that.....nobody showed up and Ron Washington was a stud. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Professional_Baseball_Association
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GoatSeeGuy posted:Someone tried that.....nobody showed up and Ron Washington was a stud. 47 year old Bert Campanaris stole 17 bases lol
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I remember back in the 90s the All Star Game festivities featured a hall of fame game where a bunch of retired old-timers (I think mostly just all stars) played the game. It was a beautiful disaster. Some players were so old, that they only batted and had a slightly less older person run for them. Pretty sure it got replaced by the celebrity softball game, because watching Kevin Costner hit dingers was more exciting.
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seiferguy posted:I remember back in the 90s the All Star Game festivities featured a hall of fame game where a bunch of retired old-timers (I think mostly just all stars) played the game. It was a beautiful disaster. Some players were so old, that they only batted and had a slightly less older person run for them. Pretty sure it got replaced by the celebrity softball game, because watching Kevin Costner hit dingers was more exciting. Yankees Old-Timers Day is always wonderful.
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seiferguy posted:I remember back in the 90s the All Star Game festivities featured a hall of fame game where a bunch of retired old-timers (I think mostly just all stars) played the game. It was a beautiful disaster. Some players were so old, that they only batted and had a slightly less older person run for them. Pretty sure it got replaced by the celebrity softball game, because watching Kevin Costner hit dingers was more exciting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHV7-y5MWk
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Inspector_666 posted:Yankees Old-Timers Day is always wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EMmr40tNUQ It really is.
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Orioles trade Gallardo to Seattle for Seth Smith.  Should I be excited for a Seth Smith?E: Barring another signing in February or some poo poo, that makes our rotation Tillman, Gausman, Bundy, Miley, and Jiminez. At least...two of those are worth something? Artix fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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