Once I was stuck with listening to the Giants announcers because of difficulties with out broadcast, and man it made me miss how ridiculously awful Rex is. Those SF guys were just so dry and blah.

I would gladly take Rex over these 4 hours Yankee knob jobs that are way past their welcome.

Think about it, the best the national broadcasts have to offer are Joe Morgan (gag), Buck Martinez (retch), and Tim McCarver (honestly makes me want to throw something through a window). Hudler, while we love hearing good things about the Halos, is an absolute joke, but the same goes for just about every team’s regular color guys.

Baseball is different from the other sports in that a play-by-play man has the time to do his own color. You don’t need someone jumping in with stories about life in the big leagues. The best guys, Vin Scully and the late Harry Carey, have just done it themselves. They were the best at weaving stories and analysis in with the action, and I think it’s no coincidence that they started in radio.

My favorite two Tim McCarver moments from last night, by the way:

- Mentioning how great the Angel GM, Tom Reagins, has done a great job.
- Spending a full 90 seconds extolling Derek Jeter for his throw to 2nd to nab Abreu. “There’s no one out there to tell him where to throw! So he has to LOOK to 3rd base and find Abreu!” That’s fantastic, Tim. DJ must be the best defensive shortstop of our generation, just like you’ve always said, because he can turn his head from 3rd to 2nd. You make me want to light myself on fire.

The AM 830 broadcast is live with no delay for home games so the people at the staduim can listen and not have an anoying delay while they watch live action…

They TRY and sinc the radio broadcast with the TV broad casts for away games but different stations use different delays so the same delay for TBS won’t work for FOX etc.

Now that we’ve had a couple games in NY, I’ll bet that they have it worked out pretty good so WHEN we go back for game 6 we can tune out the nobs and listen to Terry and Rory.

willits for mathis. they have no idea that mathis can move pretty well on the bases and soth has more trust in mathis than wilson behind the plate in a big game that could go on all night. plus, look who got the big hit, mathis! tom reagins must have been very proud.

Here is a ray of hope to show that even the NY columnists understand really poor color work, whether or not it shades towards their own team.

Money quotes, regarding Rosenthal handing the AL Championship to the Yankees in the early portion of the game:

“It’s like aura and mystique have made a comeback. Teams are falling apart at the sight of the Yankees,” Rosenthal proclaimed. “We saw it in the division series and we’re seeing it here in the ALCS. I don’t want to get far ahead of ourselves, but if you look ahead to a possible World Series matchup maybe the Phillies, the tough-minded Phillies, are the kind of opponent they need.”

If Rosenthal truly did not want to get “far ahead of ourselves,” then he would have kept his mouth shut. The outcome of Game 3 was still very much in doubt. And it wasn’t like the Yankees had bludgeoned the Twins or stomped on the Angels in the first two games.

More incredible was Tim McCarver buying into this nonsense. “… The one thing the Phillies can throw against the Yankees that no other team can – three left-handed starters,” McCarver said.

It is instructive to see how the NY sports writers are (in some cases) savaging Girardi for the sheer number of his late-inning managerial decisions, though one writer noted wryly that those same folks were probably the ones complaining Torre didn’t make enough moves.

Scioscia and Torre have it relatively easy in SoCal.