Radio call of the year

My computer skills aren't what they used to be, do I need to download 3rd party software for this??

awesome

I may have stopped some hearts down the hall with my screams...didn't check, and nobody came to check either...

I almost started yelling at my desk at the office while I was listening to the game...

Here's an Mp3:

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Nice job Vince, but I wonder what Bill woulda said.

Props to Vince for that one.

Robert Buan would have made that call.

Though not quite as awesome as the Tejada bomb of Eddie G to extend the streak. Korach has an excellent approach and voice that Viince will never come close to in my mind.

But this was one hell of a call... I made everyone who works for me (30 people) listen to it this monring!!!!!

is still truly amazing. I had looked away from the TV for a few moments just before Kots' AB and when I looked back, I suddenly felt like I wasn't even watching Game 2 anymore. As the ball skipped by Hunter I thought, "This is an archived highlight, right? This can't really --" and then the other side of me blew up as I screamed: "He's going to do it! That's an inside the parker!" I was jumping up and down like a fool 'til my wife and mom came in from the dining room. As Kots touched home plate I gave my dad a high-five and started dancing around the room screaming, "He did NOT just do that! Tell me he -- YEAH-YEAH-YEAH!"

This is why, though I got my degree in radio-TV broadcast, I'm no longer pursuing the field.

Amazing how fast Kotsay is at third in that call....Dude was flying.

on Scutaro's game-ending flyball in the 12th (11th?) against K-Rod that first game of the Angels' series at home -- both the fly to right that fell just foul, and the game-winner itself.

So it seems that, whatever his other limitations, he has the ability to rise to the occasion.

And as far as Bill King is concerned, if Bill were still with us, wouldn't that have been Ken's inning?  So the question isn't what Bill would have said, but what Ken would have said.

That was a totally magnificent call, the way he ratcheted it up as the play developed mirrored Kotsay's acceleration as he circled the bases, a difficult parallel to achieve.  First the minor excitement of what seemed at first to be a harmless 2-out single as Kots jogged to first, then the dive and miss as Kots turned it on, then a little lull as Kots began to run out of gas coming into third, then the last push of adrenaline as Wash sent him in.

All perfectly described, and certainly the call of the year, kudos to VC.

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So many boys to love.

Didn't he do a pretty sweet call on Swisher's inside the parker in Yankee Stadium as well?  Maybe that's his thing.  

I thought the same thing, Rlangford. I had just stepped out of my building (in which I can not get a radio signal) and turned on the radio before Kotsay hit it to center. Cotroneo did a great job ratcheting up the excitement in his voice as the play unfolded. I was seriously pumped for the rest of the day after that.

The radio call of the year will belong to whichever A's announcer is doing pxp when the A's win their 11th postseason game.

from school where she had a half day due to parent-teacher conferences. We were listening on the car radio on our way to Sports Authority to buy her some volleyball shoes and kneepads. My first thought when it got by Hunter was that there was a chance for an inside-the-park HR and the excitement grew. By the time Cotroneo said Kotsay was rounding third, we were yelling "Go...GO...GO KOTS!" and as Vince called the slide by Kotsay "SAFE!", my daughter and I were whooping and hollering and high-fiving each other.

A few moments later she says, "Dad...are you crying?"

"Stop it. You're weirding me out."

Won't be tough to stay motivated during workouts.