Well That Fucking Sucked

[Centerfield]

I actually had to do work this morning.

[seawolf17]

Plus those two games over the weekend sucked and I had nobody to bitch about it with.

[whippoorwill]

Hooray!

Now that we're back, they'll win

[Lefty Specialist]

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I actually had to do work this morning.

[dgwphotography]

I'm just glad we're back

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think it had been a while since I've watched a game on ESPN. I mostly saw the innings when Hank Aaron was in the booth.



For how long has ESPN been enhancing the sound of the ball hitting the bat or the catcher's glove? It's ridiculously cartoonish.



Also, they showed a photo of a young Aaron with Jackie Robinson. They asked him if the photo had been taken in Brooklyn or Milwaukee, but Aaron had a B on his cap. Did he ever suit up as a member of the Boston Braves?



https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/5a/f9/745af94190f424c05a6c9ff24d408495.jpg>



By the way... nice hat on that guy in the background!

[seawolf17]

Nope. Saw that elsewhere - it's Sam Jethroe, apparently.

[Ceetar]

You could hire three people out of a Freshmen A/V club that could put together a better broadcast.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I have to admit, I find Arod's admiration for baseball genuine and enjoy his takes as a broadcaster. He went about baseball all wrong as a player but I think in part because he was so in love with it he was a fool.



Contrast him with say Joe Morgan whom I really admired as a player but turned out to be a regressive and bad color commentator.



My ESPN dream team would be Jon Miller and Arod. They'd be great together!

[kcmets]

One of our longer (and unnecessary) outages, it's good to be back.



Hosting company claimed our domain registration for thecranepool.net expired in 2018

and also expired in March 2019, They wanted a back year's registration and a new year's

registration and a $70 domain redemption fee on top of that. After two days they came

to the realization that our domain is included with our hosting services plan the domain

name doesn't expire until 2021. Assclowns.

[bmfc1]

I thought that this was a review of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball but it applies here, too. Sorry that you had to deal with those assclowns.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Nope. Saw that elsewhere - it's Sam Jethroe, apparently.

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Nope. Saw that elsewhere - it's Sam Jethroe, apparently. So it wasn't a picture of Hank Aaron, and Aaron himself didn't realize it?

https://sports.yahoo.com/espn-confused-hank-aaron-sam-145114079.htmlhttps://sports.yahoo.com/espn-confused-hank-aaron-sam-145114079.html

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Nope. Saw that elsewhere - it's Sam Jethroe, apparently. So it wasn't a picture of Hank Aaron, and Aaron himself didn't realize it?

I don't blame Hank -- it was presented to him live and asked "where was this picture of you taken, was it in Milwaukee?" We don't even know what he saw, but his answer was like, "uh, I think Milwaukee." ESPN screwed that one up

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, how embarrassing for them.

[Willets Point]

I liked hearing from Aaron, though.

[MFS62]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Contrast him with say Joe Morgan whom I really admired as a player but turned out to be a regressive and bad color commentator.

I've said this before, but when talking about Morgan's announcing, it is always fun to repeat it.

Joe Morgan "wrote" a book called "Baseball for Dummies". (It was one of the "___ for Dummies" series.)

When I saw the book, I thought it was his autobiography.



Later

[Frayed Knot]

I've said this before, but the problem with ESPN's SNB isn't the announcers. Well, sometimes it is but that largely a matter of taste and mostly fans take that stuff too seriously.

The bigger problem is that ESPN doesn't think you tuned in to watch a baseball game, they think you tuned in to watch ESPN

In their view you tuned in to see ESPN announcers and other ESPN personalities do their schticks, to see ESPN graphics (and sound effects), to read the ESPN crawl and to check out

the promos on upcoming events to be shown on ... wait for it ... ESPN



Should they, as the linked YAHOO article states, have checked out the Aaron/Jethroe photo and have realized that Hank never played in Boston? Sure, except that they've all but

severed themselves from anything that's not football or basketball so the odds have having anyone that who would know that is pretty small at this point.