Still like the guy. Very cool story.

I do get your point, though. Kinda Guy Smileyish.

Anyone else getting irritated by this guy? Seems as excited for the other team. It's like listening to an ESPN broadcast.

_________________
Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

This guy? No way!



Once the old generation hangs them up the era of vanilla nerdy PxP broadcaster like Kasper will be upon us everywhere.

I bet he likes to fuck.

Do you think he likes to fuck?

maybe one day benetti will channel his inner marv albert

This is Vin Scully's last year, Marty Brennaman is always on the verge of retirement, and who knows how much longer Bob Uecker has. The only thing worse than everyone being like Len Kasper will be Len Kasper being the elder statesman of them all. We roll our eyes when Hawk tells yet another story about the '67 Red Sox; God only knows how we'll react when Len looks back fondly on that time he and Theo Epstein played some Pete Yorn covers at Yak-Zie's or something.

_________________

_________________

Watched an inning of him last week, makes for such a better broadcast than having Hawk in the ballpark.

Step 1!

_________________
"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'll never understand how Cumulus cared enough about resuscitating WLS-AM to go out and get the White Sox but didn't care enough to get a play-by-play announcer better than Ed Farmer, like, say, Dave Wills. Farmer and Stone (the best broadcasting pair of all time, just set a time machine to 2008 and ask Dan Bernstein) on TV with Wills and DJ on the radio would have been ideal. As for where that leaves Hawk, I dunno, how about leaving him in a ditch.

_________________

Sox are probably paying Cumulus.

_________________
Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Non Negotiable Points.

#FAMILY

_________________
"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.’”

Not to nit pick on Jason. Cuz he's fine like I said.

But a couple of weeks ago the Sox were down 1-0. Sox hit a two run home run. And he yelled a the top of his lungs. THIS IS THE FIRST LEAD FOR THE SOX ALL GAME.

No shit, Jason. They had zero runs before the homer

I was watching that game. He did not yell. His voice raised and he was excited, but that was not a yell.

Way too much nitpicking and hand wringing over this guy. He's been fine. He's called what, 20 MLB games? I am sure he will only get better.

_________________

One thing I'll say- not so much about this guy, but rather about Hawk being gone- is that each game doesn't seem like a fucking potential death march.

_________________
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

yea , but again, i prefer my Steve Stone lifeless and neutered by Hawk...not spry and trying to be a comedian with Benetti
like that stupid prize shelf thing they think is so hilarious

Yeah, these two are annoying in a different way with Stone being given free reign to spread his smarmy wings.

_________________
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

and Benetti with the constant questions
"well what do you see that makes you think the pitcher is getting tired"

He's been a nerdy dork his whole life. That will not get better.

Yep, Stone is the best in the business. If you're six years old.

_________________
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

At least Benetti KNOWS he's a nerdy dork unlike the Cubs moron.

_________________
Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Look, no Sox announcers were worse than Gary Thorne or Jim Durham. Benetti ain't even close.

_________________

Yeah, that guy seems to think it's cool to strum guitars with Theo, Gammons, and the guy from Buffalo Tom when in actuality nothing could be dorkier.

_________________
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Gammons is physically able to strum a guitar ?

Maybe he gets better when is is more confident, but the fawning over Stone. The stupid prize shelf and the non-stop Sox math references...

Hawk and Wimpy is more entertaining. At least the old stories are usually unintentionally funny and have personality.

_________________
Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Hawk and Wimpy was a good broadcast.

_________________
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That was a great listen.

The past is for cowards and losers.

_________________
Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

This Benetti guy is trash. Not the same without Hawk.

Thorne is actually pretty good with the Orioles, but he has a lot more experience doing baseball now and he has Jim Palmer as his analyst.

Dave Wills does a really good broadcast, but one that is analyst-free because the other guy (Andy Freed) is a PBP guy and not an ex-player. After about a decade of that, I'm not sure how he'd put up with having to have either Stone or Farmio sitting next to him yammering away. Plus Wills is under no pressure in Tampa because I think more people listen to the broadcast on XM or MLB At Bat than actually listen from Tampa itself on the radio.

_________________
"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

It's always fun to listen to Wills in Tampa. The Sox let all of their good broadcasters go. Wills, Rooney, Wimpy. And 890 is a trash station with an awful signal. It should not be this difficult to produce a better product.

_________________
Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?