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FanGraphs is doing their crowdsourced broadcaster ratings. Go vote on Charlie and Dave!
Charlie and Dave made the top ten! The full top ten rankings will be published tomorrow, so we can find out what the exact order is.
#5! Overall fan grade of 4.5 out of 5.http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2016-broadcaster-rankings-radio-10-1/"One respondent suggests that Slowes and Jageler are “better than the sum of the parts” — which is both (a) probably a function of chemistry and, it would seem, (b) a property shared by most of the broadcast teams occupying these top five or six slots."N.B. The "Representative Reader Comment" is me.5. Charlie and Dave4. Bob Uecker3. Mets2. Jon Miller and Giants1. Eric Nadel in RangersThat is elite, elite company.
Were the Yankees the worst? Should be...
Yes: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2016-broadcaster-rankings-radio-30-21/
I suppose those who hate the Yankee announcers, it's mostly Sterling. Not that I like him, but it's that cow of a woman that I can't stand. Everytime she speaks I think of Hillary.
Saw that Fangraphs ranked the TV announcers as well, and Bob/FP are ranked #26.
There are actually four that are worse?
Charlie Slowes will be filling in for John Walton on the Caps radio broadcast on Thursday, February 22 when the Caps take on the Panthers.
I can't listen to hockey on radio. I've tried.
Agreed...it just isn't meant for radio...
I remember how excited I got when Frank Herzog was gonna do a Nats' game. It wasn't what I expected.
When was that? Herzog was great doing Bullets games, and he was fine doing the Redskins. But I wouldn't have expected him to be any good doing baseball.
I didn't really follow the Caps much till I tuned into Ron Weber's radio broadcasts in 1981, and I've been hooked on radio hockey ever since. You get a pretty good account of what's going on (even if neither of Weber's successors is quite in Weber's league in that area) and you don't have to put up with Pierre Maguire, Miltown Milbury and the rest of those lot.
Ron Weber was a great announcer. He used to do other sports on radio in Philly when I grew up. Gene Hart who did the Flyers games on radio and tv was the best IMHO. Emrick is good also. For the first few years the Flyers games were rarely on tv and only the third period was on the radio. I used to pick up the Bruins games on WBZ while waiting for the Flyers to come on. The Bruins radio guy was good also. Maybe JCA recalls his name?
I never listened to the Bs on the radio, and I rarely watched them on TV by the mid-70s. Fred Cusick and Johnny Pierson were the TV guys, and I think before Cusick it was Don Earle. Cusick may have moved back and forth to radio and TV over the years. Cusick was the main voice. Later on, it was Dale Arnold and a few others.
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