I think this is 'his stride" and its average at best. If he thinks he is getting $400K a year again, they might as well start looking for a new guy again.

While I dont think there is a dislike between Len and James, they dont click well.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

he doesn't get 400k per year for that gig?

I thought on air guys for even the worst baseball teams were making over 500K

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Good thing they screwed up that Brenly deal.

Len Kasper should be able to hand select whomever he'd like to work with. He is that good, and they can afford to pay him and his chosen color analyst.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

No, Len is nowhere near that good.

This guy gets it.

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paraphrasing your own words.......

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Isn't Stone Pony's contract up at the end of the year?

Who started this thread?

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have no use for him.

Len Kasper
Vin Scully
27 Baseball Play-by-Play men
Ken Harrelson

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Jean Lenti Ponsetto would hire him if she were the GM

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Local sportscasters: rank 'em

1. Foley
2. Hawk
3.-whatever,everyone else.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

There was actually a bidding war on him between the Astro and Cubs!

Len was also part of the search and put the seal of approval on him.

I dont even doubt Deshais knows his baseball, but it seems tough to get information and even commentary from him, making the $400K even harder to believe as some simple audition tapes had to be available from him doing Astros games?

Lets be clear, I dont despise the guy, he does just a plain, boring job and I think the color guy needs to bring more to the table....I mean if he is allowed to.

Yes, Stones deal is up and I am 100% sure he would love to return to the Cub, but maybe all those little shots might have cost him....

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I never said anything about Hawk, and you are way off (as usual) with this baseball discussion. Len started out good, but over the last few years has turned into a hipster, and a whiny Cubs apologist.

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Turned into a hipster? What does that even mean?

How can a Sox fan ever call another team's broadcaster a whiny team apologist? Watching MLB Network constantly, I feel I have a good sense of play-by-play men from a ton of teams. Len Kasper is on the objective side. Maybe not as much as he was when Bob Brenly was with him, but he still calls the game correctly. If a pitch is a good pitch, it is a good pitch. If it is a bad pitch, it is a bad pitch. If a player makes a baserunning or fielding mistake, it is commented on.

And the team the player is on is never factored into it with Len.

We have Stacey King and Ken Harrelson in this town. We should know what terrible homer broadcasters sound like.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Hawk might be better on some sort of talk show, inside the Sox or something like that, but as a guy doing the games he is terrible. His information is wrong, terrible, old and he cant see.

Now, Stone sat next to a guy who did the same thing, but Stone could correct him, then he and Harry would laugh about it. It made for a good broadcast...Stone cant correct "The Great Hawk" so you get silence and a bad broadcast with poor information at best.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Len will never be above Vin.

He is no longer objective. And neither are you. Just like I said the other day.

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100% correct first word to last.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Vin will be 6 feet under him soon.

I can't really speak to his actual broadcasts but he does not come off as anything close to that on the radio with B&B.

It feels like I can write his answers to every question. Spoiler Alert: Everything is great about everything.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yousonofa......

He is as objective as IMU is about the White Sox.

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When you are trying to sell something, which is what the media people do for a team....Always painting a great picture and smiling is exactly what you want.

I assum you have some type of marketing or salespeople, or do some sales calls? Do you or they walk in and start talking crap about your company or the others?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

So then he isn't objective.

There is nothing wrong if that is what his role is but IMU can't then call him on the objective side.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

but on WSCR his role is baseball expert not Cub bandwagon leader.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I don't think it's a lot to ask for Kasper to be critical every once in a while.

Len Kasper is as objective as you can be as a team play-by-play man can be during his broadcasts. Period.

If you disagree, give me an alternative.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.