STOP STOP STOP with the batting average doesnt matter SABR bullshit. You couldn't be more fucking wrong and you keep perpetuating this garbage like its a fact. Fucking asswipe.

He is at a Chip Carey replacement PBP broadcaster level. Jim Deshaies is Lou Brock level replacement color man. Cub games are unwatchable on TV with those two strokes.

Those are two terrible takes . I don't like Kasper at all but he's a solid professional broadcaster. Deshaies is really good at what he does. Try again.

Yeah I’m knocking one part of his broadcast / thought process. I’m not saying he isn’t good broadcaster. I don’t think anyone can objectively say he isn’t a solid pro.

I think he’s a pretty shitty broadcaster based only on the criteria “do I want to listen to this guy announce a game”.

How many announcers do you want to listen to announce a game? Personally, I am indifferent to probably 80%-90% of all broadcasters and only a few announcers across all sports make a difference in my viewing experience. Kasper is fine.

How many announcers do you want to listen to announce a game? Personally, I am indifferent to probably 80%-90% of all broadcasters and only a few announcers across all sports make a difference in my viewing experience. Kasper is fine.

Last year I had MLB.tv and enjoyed the vast majority of broadcasts to our local ones.

We need to clone Hawk and Vin Scully before it’s too late.

Last year I had MLB.tv and enjoyed the vast majority of broadcasts to our local ones.

We need to clone Hawk and Vin Scully before it’s too late.

Yeah I’m knocking one part of his broadcast / thought process. I’m not saying he isn’t good broadcaster. I don’t think anyone can objectively say he isn’t a solid pro.

The best I can say is that he is not as bad as the guys doing Yankee games on YES.

The only guys I love listening to are the SF announcers Kuiper and Krukow. They tell great stories since they were former players and Krukow has such a passion not just for the Giants but the game itself.

The rest of the country is pretty blah.... Most of them sound the same and there is no uniqueness like there was w/ local team announcers in the past.

It's interesting that the Mets have always been known for quality broadcasting while the Yankees booth has been a mess for years and years, other than maybe the Jim Kaat/Ken Singleton pair.

There is nothing more fun than listening to a Mets radio broadcast when the team is losing in some step on their dick kind of way. Howie Rose and Josh Lewin are great together, and losing agitates Howie up to another level. Not a bit of sugarcoating a Mets loss, which as a Cubs fan is exactly how I enjoy it.

how come whenever i get the mets it's ron darling.

Yeah I’m knocking one part of his broadcast / thought process. I’m not saying he isn’t good broadcaster. I don’t think anyone can objectively say he isn’t a solid pro.

Not only can they, they regularly do.

And there are also people that regularly say the Earth is flat ... that doesn't mean any reasonable person is going to respect that opinion.

STOP STOP STOP with the batting average doesnt matter SABR bullshit. You couldn't be more fucking wrong and you keep perpetuating this garbage like its a fact. Fucking asswipe.

It's a well respected opinion that Kasper is a phony, five headed hump. Fake, over inflected voice. Fake association with analytics. Fake rocker. Len is a douchey propagandist. If the Cubs had high batting averages, he would tell his listeners that batting averages are a great metric.

Better? With the Cubs, it seems that the 'better' one is the one which suits the argument best. I have seen MANY posts about Almora leading or being second in the NL in batting average.

His OB% barely cracks the top twenty.

Given a large enough sample size of plate appearances, its probably good to look at both stats.
Just like W-L record with starting pitchers. Lesson #1 is free for you there, IMU.

Better? With the Cubs, it seems that the 'better' one is the one which suits the argument best. I have seen MANY posts about Almora leading or being second in the NL in batting average.

His OB% barely cracks the top twenty.

Given a large enough sample size of plate appearances, its probably good to look at both stats as they will both tell you part of the story.
Just like looking at a starting pitcher's W-L record over a large number of starts will tell you about a pitcher. Lesson #1 is free for you there, IMU.