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I have MLB's extra inning package and have had it several years in a row. I grew up liking Dick Enberg from his work on NBC. But when he cut back his schedule and largely left network TV to work Padres' games I was shocked at what a classless, gutless coward he is toward the umpries (He says things on the air that I doubt very seriously he has the balls to say to an umpire's face). I used to like him so much as a child growing up, that the first time I heard him going off on an umpire rant I thought that maybe he was just having a bad night as I had not heard anything like that from him before on NBC. But...NOPE. He's truly an ***.
He routinely eggs on the players and managers (even though, obviously, they can't hear him) to "get their money's worth" when yelling at the umpires. At the end of arguments where the player/manager/coach has been ejected he regularly says "good for you, (insert ejected person's name)." The umpire is ALWAYS wrong in every argument. He regularly comments on how bad a game an umpire is having without even attempting to give any supporting evidence.
In fact, he is one of the very worst announcers around in respect to treatment of umpires. In fact, over the last five years, based on what I have seen on MLB Extra Innings, the Padres would get my vote as the team with the most umpire-bashing announcers in all of MLB as this behavior extends beyond Dick.
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