ESPN: "Are ejections getting out of hand?"

[mattmets]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

I like Kruk. And what's his being fat have to do with anything? I mean, he once told a lady that he wasn't an athlete, merely a baseball player. Of course, he was one of my favorite players when he was with the Phillies.

Kruk plays a role, just like the umpires.

OK, his being fat has nothing to do with it. But he's fairly incompetent when it comes to analyzing baseball. Some of the things he says make absolutely no sense, like when he said a 40-year old Randy Johnson would win 30 games with the Yankees in 2005.

It's a shame that ESPN, the "Worldwide Leader in Sports", offers such awful coverage of baseball. It leads to a lot of the problems we see with coaches & players' behavior, not understanding the basics of the game, and such a stubborn refusal to look at anything other than 'intangibles'.

[mattmets]

Originally Posted by SAump

Have you seen the young camera men trotting alongside the players from 3B to Home? I have my fingers crossed that one of those guys will trip and damage his expensive camera. Some executives clearly don't understand the "proper use of the eyes" or the technolgy available.

I absolutely hate that guy. Sick as it is, I'm hoping they trip too. I don't think we need cameras everywhere....let's let the guys play balls and keep the cameras to a minimum.

[legend]

Espn has some excellent baseball guys in the studio IMO. Soup, Gammons, and Tim kurljian are all good at analyzing games. They also had a former player who did an outstanding job of color commentary, play by play and in studio work in Herald Reynolds but he messed that up himself. I also think that Joe Morgan does a nice job. I hate the fox crew! I despise Tim McCarver and I could live without Buck also (though he's better the McCarver) The best thing McCarver ever did was get soaked 3 times from Dion Sanders in their locker room.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by legend

I also think that Joe Morgan does a nice job.

Huh???

It is a competition between Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver as to who is the stupidest human being on the planet.

[jimpiano]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Huh???

It is a competition between Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver as to who is the stupidest human being on the planet.

Huh?

Morgan and McCarver forgot more than you ever knew.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by jimpiano

Huh?

Morgan and McCarver forgot more than you ever knew.

Ha! Good one! For a minute I thought you were being serious about these two clueless morons. Whew!

[jimpiano]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Ha! Good one! For a minute I thought you were being serious about these two clueless morons. Whew!

Thanks,

Let me know when you get hired.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by jimpiano

Huh?

Morgan and McCarver forgot more than you ever knew.

You either don't listen to these moron expound on rules, or you are as ignorant as they. Any 13 year old who has actually read a rule book knows more about the OBR than these two. Proof? Just listen to them attempt to explain a rule.