Sports Media -- Whom do you love?

**pluckyduck** · #1 07-05-2001, 10:41 AM

I love

Bob Costas. (I know some people don't care for him.)

I love Bob Costas because he talks about the parts of sports that interest me...he puts sports into the social context. He may be an over-intellectual little dweeb, but he's my kind of guy.

I can't stand....oh, I can't even think of the names of the people I can't stand. Back when he was doing sports and specifically the Olympics coverage, I could not stand that Pat guy who is now doing one of those Hollywood shows (Access Hollywood?). What a poser. I feel like so many of the network sports guys are posers. Whenever a Philadelphia sports team is on network, we turn down the volume and turn on our local radio coverage. Much more knowledgeable play-by-play and commentary...much less posing.

Whom do you like/hate?

Andrea

**soxfan**[$] · #2 07-05-2001, 11:34 AM

Sean McDonough and Jerry Remy (who cover the Sox for Fox) aren't half-bad. Unlike other folks whose names I can't recall, they actually talk about the game in front of them most of the time. Also, they're pretty down-to-earth, and even funny at times.

Ailsa

**Joubert**[$] · #3 07-08-2001, 09:24 AM

I think Costas is at the top of his game, so to speak. I also enjoy Jack Buck a lot. As a former catcher, I used to love listening to Tim McCarver, so the Buck/McCarver team made a lot of sense to me, but McCarver recycles way too much stuff for my liking. The guys doing Orioles games are okay, with the exception of Jim Palmer, who still doesn't get it after all these years.

Fans of the Don & Mike radio show who don't live in DC will be interested to learn that their flagship station (WJFK) carries Redskins games and that Don did pre-show stuff for them for a couple of years when they started. Redskins purists were not amused by his, err, antics. I thought he was great, but I also think their show is terrific.

BTW, Redskins purists will always listen to "Frank, Sonny and Sam" as in Frank Herzog (local broadcaster who has bounced around to every station) and Hall of Famers Sonny Jurgensen and Sam Huff. Fans in the stands listen to them. They are legendary in this city, and regardless of which station owns broadcast rights, will always have a job broadcasting games. I find them to be insipid.

**mrisch**[$] · #4 07-09-2001, 06:10 PM

My wife just hates sportscasters.

I think Costas is great as well, and he has a good sense of humor. In his day Brent Musberger was good, if dry. Despite the controversy, Marv "Yessss" Albert was always one of my favorites.

I also think that the Chris Berman/Tom Jackson team (along with other ESPN PrimeTime Football cohorts) are about as good as it gets for that type of genre.

On the decline are the Madden/Summerall team - they are now boring and make lots of errors.

cyndilouwhoo · #5 07-10-2001, 10:50 AM

I think Dennis Miller is the best thing to happen to Monday Night Football in a long, long time. He is the funniest, freakiest, "fanniest" (!) color guy out there.

I also liked the fact that he came out and admitted he didn't know what he was doing when he first came on MNF. That takes guts...

And I'll vote with Ailsa--Jerry and Sean can really call a game. Last week's riff about supersitious players and their gloves was a riot!

Cyndi

quasar · #6 07-10-2001, 03:36 PM

I really like Tim McCarver, and as a Mets fan I used to see him all the time. I intensely disliked Harry Carey when I was in Chicago, and once I admitted that, even most of the Cubs fans I knew agreed. They would rotate between TV and radio so they would never have to hear him.

I think John McEnroe is the most amusing sportscaster I've ever heard. He makes tennis so much fun. In general, I've got to say that all of the tennis commentators I've seen have been pretty good.

I really really love Mike and the Mad Dog show on WFAN radio (NYC). They have a 3 hour call in show every weekday afternoon. I have never heard two people more knowledgeable about such a wide variety of sports in my life.

Janice