Are you pretending to be from NorCal now?

Can we keep it?

Don't tell anyone.

make sure you mention the White Sox "have to play the team with the best record in the American League" now ....

We're winning THESE games.

Not so much last year.

spaceship! spaceship! spaceship!

Laying off Street's Breaking Stuff is hard to do (For tonight at least). The Slider looks like a fastball for about 58 ft. It had great late break. Tough for Righthanders to layoff.

that was soooooooo perfect.

As a matter of fact, I was so excited at the beginning of the year with the other two on the broadcast that I emailed Rev Halofan and asked him if they finally got rid of Physioc and Hudler. Sadly, he informed me that they would just be alternating radio and TV. I can't imagine what Hudler would be like on radio. He's painful enough on TV.

Man, those guys were AWFUL! I was figuring that someone would post a fan thread, but nice to see the issue getting some top billing.

I can’t believe the announcers used “We” and were basically the two drunk guys behind you in the stands yelling and he-hawing. Did they offer real analysis? Nope, just fans watching the game. Terrible job. You couldn’t even tell what was going on on the field whenever there was a hit.

The reason I think Smith could maintain his success, rather than being one of those guys the league figures out, is that his reputation is for being a thinking man's pitcher - he has good enough stuff (mostly by way of command) that if he adjusts better than the league he'll be fine. He seems to have that poise/style. There's a reason the A's liked this guy - and he was only a "throw-in" in the way Mark Ellis was a throw-in in the Johnny Damon deal - maybe a throw-in from the other team's point of view, but not from the A's.

Please tell me that was on purpose.

I meant to mention that when I was in Phoenix, but I forgot.

I'll take the end result, I'll just question the means.

Or did you expect me to say Dotel, or Rhodes, or Koch...? Street's not "light's out" but few are - he is, at least, pretty good. Unlike Joe Borowski, who gave it up to Boston tonight to the tune of 3 ER in 0.2 IP. Let's hear it for the reigning saves leader!

I’d rather have somebody who can play center field.

Notice how they got more homerish as the game went on?

Just to underscore how hard his names are to pronounce or remember?

I like the Moneyball tie-in.

Or maybe just "Pick" or "Picker."

BJ

...well, I think we'd all be a bit surprised.

But yeah, he did get to a few different balls that could've likely been hustle doubles.

I downloaded it twice, installed it, and shut down and everything, but it kept telling me I didn't have it installed.

I switched back to the old player for the meantime as well.

than Smith and Eveland have. (Especially left-handed.)

They sent me 5 auto responses, and then this (this is a cut and paste)

Response (Anisa Hoxha) – 04/15/2008 12:34 PM
Dear Fan:

Thank you for sending your email. We appreciate your feedback.
We have discontinue the condensed games .
If you have further question please call the toll-free customer service hotline at 1-866-800-1275 . Thank you again for taking the time to write!

Truly, MLB hates baseball, and wants to make damned sure that no child ever wants to play or watch. Unless they’re in this God Forsaken City, or the other one to the North East.

Now if a photographer would have pooped on him, then you’d have something.

when they actually are.

is too scratched up to listen to anymore so I blocked it out of my mind.

Next thing you know,You’ll be wishing Angel’s fans an unhappy birthday (‘cause their evil and they lie).

I have the same problem. I’m currently dealing with it by hitting C when I noticed the autorefresh things, then hititng Z.

They raved (ranted) about Greg Smith’s “balk disguised as a pick-off move” to get runners out.

The general complaints were only something a Chi-town sports fan could love. They’re the Kobe Bryant of baseball, always with a complaining grimace about them.

At least he Cub’s fans have a decent beef having not won a series in 100 years; however the Sox have one with an overrated team this decade!

Spend you time on the Bear’s for complaining b/c these sox are done for ‘08.

Is the Hawk the worst announcer? Or is it Hudler?

What’s so great about baseball is you don’t have to choose! Once again, over the course of the season, we’ll get to listen to both!

Personally, though, I give the edge to Hudler, though that might have to do with the fact that he’s announcing rooting for the LAAAAs and that he shares the booth with the also very bad Steve Physioc.

I had the misfortune of catching a White Sox broadcast some years back and heard Hawk Harrelson and was amazed at how much of a homer a broadcaster could be. The use of “us” and “we” is quite silly – again, as was mentioned earlier, because he’s not on the field. The funniest thing was when the Sox closer (Thigpen, Foulke, Koch, Jenks) would come in and throw a fastball to a batter with two strikes, he’d exclaim, “GAS!” This was usually done to try and punctuate a strikeout. Made me laugh the one time he did it and an A’s batter fouled it off – then followed it up by hitting the next GAS! offering about 375 feet. >:)

Just goes to show how skilled – but honest and unbiased – our announceers are and always have been. King, Simmons, Korach, Fosse (sorry to Vince, but I never cared for him one iota – and he basically was the new man in the booth after Bill’s passing. Unfair, I know, but I was a HUGE fan of Bill’s and Vince was not that great regardless.)

Of course, maybe it’s just a Chicago thing. Harry Carey was the largest homer in the history of baseball announcing. :)

Love the way the team has exploded out of the gate. These guys are working hard to disprove the pundits. It’s early, but we are definitely going to surprise some people.

Let’s go A’s!

I owe Cindi 10 bucks.