Comments on: Jim Duquette and Others Auditioning To Call Mets Games In 2012

By: Metsie

Metsie — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:13:21 +0000

I wouldn’t worry about your feelings on Buck really swaying anyone on thier opinion of you! LOL

Why don’t they groom Burkhardt he seems to be a good candidate?

You don’t really need an analyst for radio what you need are two guys who are good an PBP because that alone fills up the air time!

In TV you need the Analyst only because Video handles most of the description and you just need someone to explain it.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:54:50 +0000

Horrible

By: XtreemIcon

XtreemIcon — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:46:48 +0000

Yes. Yes it does.

By: Donal

Donal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:40:56 +0000

Does it make me a horrible person if I happen to like Buck?

I mean, when he is actually calling a game and not trying to be Bob Costas light.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:38:35 +0000

Amen as well as Joe Buck!

By: Donal

Donal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:36:44 +0000

They should have a contest, like WFAN fantasy phenom.

They do it for the national anthem.

By: Donal

Donal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:15:08 +0000

They should have tried trading him first. At least get some audio cable or something.

By: t agee

t agee — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:12:20 +0000

I think the reason Hagin was let go was to avoid his 1,000 innings called option from vesting.

By: Donal

Donal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:38:42 +0000

As part of the cost cutting measures, Mr Met is now pulling double duty as mascot and play by play radio announcer.

By: jessep

jessep — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:20:23 +0000

They should hire the kid who did PBP with Gary Keith & Ron 2 years ago.

By: Joe D

Joe D — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:13:20 +0000

Kay, can we throw Fran Healey in with those two?

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:58:25 +0000

I’m glad he’s gone, I found him to be awful, couldn’t stand his voice at all. He and Suzy W should go work together………

By: t agee

t agee — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:30:58 +0000

Just don’t let Duquette any where near Mejia, Familla, Harvey or Wheeler.

By: Joe Diaz

Joe Diaz — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:20:04 +0000

That’s true Des but on radio you can’t see what the broadcaster see’s and Wayne did a great job describing plays to his audience.If a player made a baserunnng blunder I want to hear about it.I hate bland announcers who are afraid to criticize. I also like to hear the play by play guy’s 2nd guessing a managers decision if it’s questionable like Collins putting on a bunt every time we get a leadoff double.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:22:28 +0000

It’s almost impossible to think that Rose could do the broadcast by himself. Games go on way too long and you need that other guy to take over from time to time.
The old timers are a breed apart and they simply do not make broadcasters like that anymore. Murphy actually preferred to work alone and even had issues with Cohen when he was partnered with him.
Radio guys are much harder to find than TV guys and it is becoming a lost art. You don’t have pictures you have to speak them in radio and that is why Cohen is so good on TV because he had a pretty good teacher to draw from.

I would say it might be ok to add one of the TV guys for an inning or two to the radio broadcast but all I really care about is they do not bring Fran Healy back! Him or Lorne “He is in the hole” Brown
If they do I would rather miss the game than listen to it!

By: Des

Des — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:57:16 +0000

Wayne just needs better balance. When his emphasis is on what’s wrong, what’s questionable, or repeatedly on a runner’s mistake, for example, it’s overdone. He needs to emphasize the game of baseball. Most fans know the alternatives, having listened and watched hundreds if not thousands of games.

By: Sixxis

Sixxis — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:06:43 +0000

In other words you want a “shill”?, I’d want my announcers to talk about all facets of the game, including the second guess because it is a part of a fan’s rooting interest.

By: Connor

Connor — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:56:29 +0000

I feel like much of the time, Howie has carried it by himself! Maybe it’s just me, but you don’t hear Wayne too much often times in games for a few minutes…

By: IowaFan

IowaFan — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:04:00 +0000

I think Howie could fly solo. In addition to Vin Scully, Uecker used to go solo, too, for the Brewers.

By: DaveUpstateNY

DaveUpstateNY — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:33:48 +0000

I never felt comfortable listening to Wayne. He always seemed out of place, like an out-of-town broadcaster filling in.