Best baseball commentators

I don’t really care for him on baseball. His pacing and cadence aren’t that good for baseball, though they suit a hockey game well.

Anyone looks good if you compare them to Hawk or Joe Morgan or Steve Phillips.

On a related note…I about threw my pillow at the TV last night after the game when I switched to ESPN and Buck Showalter was saying something to the effect of

“The Cubs might have won tonight but I’m still taking Millwaukee…CC had a great performance tonight keeping them in the game and they seem to have a lot better clubhouse chemistry than the Cubs.” – hmm…ok well I can see you taking Millwaukee maybe but I’d say the Cubs chemistry is pretty strong as well.

Len and Bob as well. As a kid, I used to listen to Ernie Harwell calling tigers games. I miss him alot.

seems to be more comfortable to be critical at times. I’ve grown to like his analysis. Len on the other hand, while good with the flow of the game and the banter with brenly, that pubescent voice crack during every big moment irritates me beyond measure.

The Red Sox tv guys, Remy and Orsillo are hysterical – as are the Giants guys.

...when Cubs play Dodgers I look for the west coast feed. He’s a walking encyclopedia of baseball history.

I love Scully too. To me, that is the way that baseball should sound.

my favorite duo was chip and stoney…....i don’t know how anyone can say brenly knows more about baseball than stoney

I remember when Chip and Stoney left and Len and Bob came in, I just wasnt happy them two left. You know they both loved the Cubs and were just as excited as we were when the Cubs would win. Over the years I have grown to like Len and Bob. They are both good baseball guys and are genuine fans of the Cubs. I think in the first year maybe two they were just annoucers but now they are fans first and announcers second. As far as Len’s voice changes, I think it shows how excited he really is and he does have a good home run call. He mixes it up a little. Chip was always the same..Swung and belted.. it was great with his voice but always the same. Bob brings a great baseball mind to the booth. He wasnt the greatest player or manager but knows the ins and outs and gives he opinion with truth and is now not affraid to say if something wasnt either done right or the most effective. Altho I dont think he would ever question Lou’s or any other managers choices. He knows things are much different in the dug out then in the booth.

Orel Hershiser. He was a pitcher and a pitching coach. I like his comments and analysis on the pitchers in the game.

He was also one of my favorite non-Cub players when he played. It didn’t hurt that he helped me win a fantasy league during his great 1988 season. That was 20 years ago. I am getting old.

I live in LA and have become a bit of a Dodgers fan (except when they play the Cubs) because of Vin Scully. He’s one of the last of generation and getting up there in years, so I’m savoring it while I can.

but one guy I absolutely loathe listening to is Joe Buck, no matter the sport he is terrible.

As with the previous posters, I enjoy Scully, and maybe I was too young and I’m mistaken, but didn’t Al Michaels do baseball in the mid-late 80s?...Having fuzzy memories of that, but I enjoy anything Michaels does.

Gary Thorne is the lead TV announcer for Orioles baseball on MASN. (Mid Atlantic Sports Network)