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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
At least Brantley knew the pitcher didn't need to come to a stop when throwing to first base, which Sean McDunnagh (sp?) thought was the rule.
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Sean is the worst of them all. (Aside: Sean is the son of Will McDonaugh (sp?)...the longtime NFL beat writer for the Boston Globe and sideline reporter for NFL on NBC back in the 80's and 90's. Will died 2 years ago.)
Anyways, Sean followed dad into journalism...only as an on-air announcer rather than print journalist. Sean worked his way up to calling Red Sox games as the local TV play-by-play guy. When CBS got the MLB national contract, he was their #1 play-by-play guy....he called the World Series' in the early 90's on CBS.
Sean is awful...it doesn't matter what sport he announces, he will go in a rage about the officiating. (I mean he sounds like he's a coach going ballistic on an official.) It doesn't matter if its hockey, baseball or college basketball he simply can not do a single game without commenting on the poor officiating.
One night, during a Red Sox broadcast, he said (and I'll never forget it): "three of these guys on this crew better be glad that these umpires are tenured, or they'd all be out of a job." Which we (me and other pro umps sitting in the bar watching this game) thought was hilarious because these guys were three of the most respected (by their colleagues) umpires in the game.
He's totally clueless. He's so bad, that my grandfather (who is no umpire...rather he was an American Legion coach for 40+ years) will watch the game on TV, but turn down the volume and listen to the game on the radio.
As an aside, Peter Gammons, another Boston product does not have a lot of love coming his way from the MLB boys.