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What do you prefer, not just watching or listening to a baseball game, but a more in depth look at a baseball game. Do you like the more story telling, descriptive, stats given and sounds of the stadium and crack of the bat on radio or do you like the more jovial joking around, fans sitting in the stadium, more in game in screen commercials and more available stats and diagrams of TV. They each have their strength and I'm sure if you had your choice of a great like Bob Uecker on radio or a dullard like Darrin Jackson of the white sox i'm sure it would be an easy choice(Steve stone is pretty good).
I didn't know this but MLB.com has the option to watch a game on MLB.TV and then have the radio overlay, this is something baseball fan's all over the country have been asking for especially in cities like Milwaukee who have a legend for a radio voice, the same could be said for San Francisco Giants fans. So now when I watch out of market MLB games, I go to radio overlay, baseball just sounds better on the radio.
So what do you prefer? radio, TV or Radio overlay with radio?
Plus I prefer radio over TV is I am always doing something around the house or garage and I can still do stuff and pay attention to the game, BTW I have done a 180 on New York's John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. Maybe it's because I have been listening to them for so long that it reminds me of when I was a kid.
I will almost always take the radio call. I grew up wanting to be a broadcaster, specifically a sportscaster, and while my life took a detour into sportswriting, baseball on the radio is something I've always enjoyed and always will.
I will listen to just about any broadcast, although there are some teams' calls I prefer far more than others.
If the Cubs, my favorite team, are in a nationally televised game, I often will mute the TV call and listen to the Cubs radio broadcast. I do for every postseason game; might have listened to Joe Buck for maybe two innings of the World Series. As an aside, this is something that amuses me when people profess to love their local radio broadcasters but then proceed to incessantly complain about TV announcers being biased against their team. Not that hard to get a radio or listen via computer, mute the TV and listen to broadcasters who want the same outcome you do.
TV with radio, though I've never had it. Most of my life I just had radio, but that radio brought me Vin Scully, Don Drysdale, and some other decent announcers.
Now I have TV but no radio. I do like being able to see the game, but I don't have three hours to spend in front of the television - and if you're not watching, you'll miss something. I usually watch the game while I use the treadmill, and I do a lot of fast-forwarding.
I'd like to hear the game called on the radio, but also have the option of going to the screen to see the good parts. We can't get decent radio reception in our house, though.
Radio.. For everything.. It's just so much more descriptive.. If you can match it up, radio broadcast with TV is good. I used to do that back in the Sonny, Sam and Frank heyday of the Redskins.
but, any sporting event I think is better listening to the radio call vs the TV call and that is just a factor of how much more descriptive they have to be since, in theory at least, they have to paint a broader picture of the events since you can't see them.
I like both and it depends on what I am doing to establish preference. If I'm busy, the radio provides a better means of following the game than those periodic peeks at the TV. If I have nothing else going on, I'll want to see the game.
The identity of the announcers also makes a difference. Jon Miller is much better on TV than on the radio because on the latter, the man cannot shut up for a second. He feels compelled to fill every possible second of dead air with endless stories about things which have nothing to do with the game in front of him.
Sometimes the radio simply makes for a greater emotional impact. There is a distinct difference between listening to a recording of Russ Hodges calling Bobby Thompson's famous home run (Hodges was doing radio) and seeing that call paired with the film of the event. The former generates an electric charge, the latter does not.
One of my favorite baseball experiences was listening to a Giants game, called by a very young Al Michaels in 1974. It was September and the Giants were well out of the pennant race as they played the Dodger in LA. Ron Bryant started for SF and was hammered right away, four hits, three walks, three runs, leaving the bases loaded when he was lifted without retiring a single Dodger. In long relief, making his ML debut, came the never-heard-of-him John Montefusco to mop up. He got a groundout which scored a run, and then struck out the next two hitters to end the trouble. Montefusco pitched the rest of the way, getting all 27 outs but not a complete game. He was touched for just one run on his own and meanwhile SF muscled up and pushed 9 runs across.
I'm not sure why, but it was really exciting to listen to this rookie mowing down the LA batters. Michaels spent some time making fun of Montefusco's name, and in the process came up with the nickname which would follow John the rest of his career...The Count of Montefusco.
Sometimes when I remember that game, I remember it as though I had seen it....that is how involved Michaels got listeners with the broadcast.
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It depends on who is doing it that day. I cannot stand our regular play-by-play guy, Dave Sims. When he is on I prefer radio with Rick Rizzs. When Aaron Goldsmith is doing play-by-play I enjoy TV more, but I really don't decide based on that, it's just a matter of whether I'm in the house or outside. You cant really watch TV with the radio sound on any more, because of the delay they don't match up.
Radio broadcasters are far more enjoyable. I know some people like to watch a game on mute but I've found the two broadcast not to be in sync.
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