'Tis the Offseason to Retire 2024-2025

[G-Fafif]

Two-time world champion reliever Daniel Hudson quits while ahead, announcing his retirement in the aftermath of the Dodgers doing with him in 2024 what the Nationals did with him in 2019.

[G-Fafif]

Another world champ, Kevin Kiermaier, indicates this postseason was his last baseball.

[G-Fafif]

Bob Costas retiring from MLB Network and Turner Sports baseball play-by-play. Will still drop in as a host/talking head.

[Centerfield]

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Bob Costas retiring from MLB Network and Turner Sports baseball play-by-play. Will still drop in as a host/talking head.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I don't even know who the lead Fox guy was this year. It seemed like he wanted to do color and PBP at the same time.

[metirish]

Joe Davis , he took over from Vin Scully calling Dodgers games, works with Orel Hershiser, i find him to be decent, Smoltz ruins it for me though, he needs to dial it back because he obviously knows pitching

[Frayed Knot]

=metirish post_id=177988 time=1730413804 user_id=72]... because he obviously knows pitching

[Frayed Knot]

Brandon Crawford, 38 in January, pulls the curtain down following 14 seasons, all but the last one in San Fran.

Probably would have been better to go out as a lifetime SFG as the 80 PAs and .169 BA he accumulated this past season in St Loo hardly justified the effort.

But he goes out with two world championships, three ASG appearances, three Gold Gloves, one Silver Slugger, plus 4th & 12th place MVP finishes ('21 & '16)

[metirish]

Hell of a player for the Giants

[Lefty Specialist]

Frayed Knot wrote: =metirish post_id=177988 time=1730413804 user_id=72]... because he obviously knows pitching

And makes sure you know it after each and every pitch.

I liked Smoltz when he first started out, but one of two things seems to happen with network analysts:

- the show's producers, who tend to hate dead air, encourage the on air talent to use up every micro-second they can between each play or even each pitch

- they hear/read some good reviews about themselves and figure that if they talk twice as much the praise will be twice as much



I suspect it's more the former than the latter but there's nothing saying that both couldn't be true.

Often less is more but the TV world doesn't seem to believe in that. btw, these same scenarios can also be applied to Tony Romo.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: One of the greatest things Vin Scully ever did was not talk. When the Mets scored the run on Buckner's error in Game 6, he didn't say a word for more than three minutes, letting the insane celebration do the talking for him. Every announcer employed today [CROSSOUT]Smoltz[/CROSSOUT] would have stomped all over that moment.

Fixed it for you.





The great, and recently retired, hockey announcer Mike Emerick was also a proponent of letting silence speak.

One time, following a sustained stretch of end to end action, a whistle finally blew for something and there was a break while lines changed and whatnot.

Only when the puck was about to be dropped did Emerick chime in with: 'The preceding 45 seconds of silence was brought to you by those needing to

catch their breaths'

[smg58]

Even Karl Ehrhardt had to acknowledge that sometimes, there are no words.