LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm kind of dismayed that Wayne hasn;t gotten much better, either as a live game caller or as a partner to Howie. He's only good sometimes. Oh, a thousand times this. I mean, leaving aside the you're-not-our-guy prejudices we all harbor to some extent vis-a-vis our radio team (the Murph-Gary-Howie continuum will do that to a fanbase*)... he's just not very good at calling game action. The lags behind the action on the field, the I-think-this-is-happening-no-wait-this-is-no-wait-it's-the-first-thing reversals have seemingly been multiplying as the months wear on. He's not as bad as some other teams' guys, I suppose-- I mean, we could have someone like Dibble or Grace ear-fucking us nightly-- but that's a bit like saying Kansas City bagels aren't as bad as Oklahoma City bagels. *Although it doesn't help when, say, after a lengthy rhetorical buildup on Saturday's Mets broadcast, you pause dramatically to compare the hype around Strasburg starts... to Fernandomania. And you leave it there. Wayne Hagin sucks. Listening to him is like trying to watch "Smokey and the Bandit" on network TV, where every single Jackie Gleason line is overdubbed by Fred Flintstone.