"Fire Wayne Hagin"

[Edgy MD]

MFS62 wrote: Of course, the NBA did not have the three point shot until the leagues merged. So there would have been no need for Marv to use it.

And he and I are both saying that it was used for long jump shots before there was a three-point line in the ABA or anywhere else.

Downtown Freddie Brown was so called for his ability to hit long jump shots as far back as high school --- in the late sixties with no three-point line.

[Edgy MD]

This guy has Celtics announcer Johnny Most using the term in the sixties.

[metirish]

So ,John Sterling may or may not have coined the term "Downtown", let's stop wasting bandwidth on this nonsense.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: This guy has Celtics announcer Johnny Most using the term in the sixties.

[Edgy MD]

metirish wrote: So ,John Sterling may or may not have coined the term "Downtown", let's stop wasting bandwidth on this nonsense.

Sorry, you have next subject.

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: metirish wrote: So ,John Sterling may or may not have coined the term "Downtown", let's stop wasting bandwidth on this nonsense. Sorry, you have next subject.

ah man, I was taking the piss.....a phrase I coined on this board...really

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Again, it's all about his awkward delivery and the resulting issue of plays unfolding before he can describe them that drives me nuts. If the Mets/660 were to keep him employed it would be worth the investment in 3 weeks of offseason play by play boot camp with a guy like Cohen who's always on top of the unfolding action.

Can you teach it? Gary's been doing TV all summer where he doesn't need to get descriptive, and he stepped into the radio booth for the ALDS and didn't miss a step.

[metirish]

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Again, it's all about his awkward delivery and the resulting issue of plays unfolding before he can describe them that drives me nuts. If the Mets/660 were to keep him employed it would be worth the investment in 3 weeks of offseason play by play boot camp with a guy like Cohen who's always on top of the unfolding action. Can you teach it? Gary's been doing TV all summer where he doesn't need to get descriptive, and he stepped into the radio booth for the ALDS and didn't miss a step.

caught some of the Rangers game yesterday on the radio, Cohen was great , I really miss him doing radio.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm just worried a little when I hear him doing national radio... gives me a little of the my-favorite-little-band-has-a-cresting-radio-hit agita. The more people hear him (combined with the best-play-by-play-men encomiums in the odd periodical), the more likely it is that someone offers him more money than he can turn down to leave our Metly orbit for a much grander stage.

[Frayed Knot]

Except that there really is no grander stage. He's already in NYC and if there's one thing we KNOW about Gary it's that he's not going to the Bronx.
And in baseball the local gig is really more prestigious than the national one. I think the worst that happens is that he gets an occasional national game in addition to his NYM job meaning we'd lose him for a handful of games each year.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Not to mention that he's from here, of here, yadda yadda.

Like all fears, it's not 100 percent rational.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah. McCarver went national and it only meant that the Mets lost him every other Sunday. But gained him back when they were the national broadcast, which was pretty often.

Then everything went... terribly wrong.