LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: smg58 wrote: I'm sure I'd cringe if I heard this person call Yankee HRs too. But I wouldn't care how badly a Mets announcer called the homers as long as he had plenty of opportunities to call them. At any rate, this thread made my day. It's not just the home run calls, or the homerism... it's the fact that the HR calls are but the tip of a gigantic iceberg of shtick. His game-calling is largely about him and the story he/the MFYs have decided upong, not about the actual game. He's unfunny, and he's kinda moralistic, and-- above all-- he's shtick-ier than Jackie Mason doing Henny Youngman jokes while waggling Groucho eyebrows and an exploding cigar. On a cruise ship called the "Lady of the Catskills." Wayne Hagin seems to have this disease at times