TV and Radio Announcers: Greg Brown, Tim Neverett, Bob Walk, Steve Blass, and John Wehner
How the Pirates use their broadcasters over the TV and radio is fascinating. They all rotate between TV and radio so it's like playing a game to guess which announcer pairing you're going to end up with on a particular night. And this cavalcade of announcers are all pretty bad.
The Brown/Walk combination is most likely the best. You can hear those two have worked with each other for a while because their chemistry. That doesn't mean they are either entertaining nor informative.
Steve Blass's announcing is almost as bad as Steve Blass Disease.
Neverett knows the game and is a good announcer from a nuts & bolts standpoint, but he isn't very entertaining or a very good story teller.
Wehner is alright as an announcer, but he's the least used.
Add of all these announcers up and you get one big shit sandwich.
If I was in charge of the Pirates broadcasting I would make Brown the radio announcer and Neverett the TV announcer and leave them in those posts. Brown can tell some stories and be entertaining and that is more needed for the radio where there are dead spots. Neverett would be better on TV because then he can just announce the game.
I would then make Walk the permanent TV analyst and I would look for either another radio announcer to work with Brown (there are plenty of good announcers calling Triple-A games) or find another analyst other than Blass and Wehner.
Whatever happens, God bless Pirates fans who have to endure these combinations on a daily basis.
So are you saying I shouldn't watch a Pirates game?
ReplyDeleteBesides the bad baseball part, yeah you shouldn't watch/listen the Pirates broadcasts.
DeleteIt is torture to listen to the announcers wherever. If we had good radio then at least I could mute the TV and listen to radio while watching. But noooo. They are horrible all the way around. How you could have played baseball and watch so much baseball and still not have anything relevant to say during an entire 9 innings blows my mind. It's painful to listen to.
ReplyDeletegreg brown is such a homer, i want to stab pencils in my ears when i hear his charade of b.s.
ReplyDeleteSteve Blass has been a mistake from the get go.
ReplyDeleteThe great Bob Prince,whom I knew when I sold radio time for KDKA was a "homer" with class and an indescribable talent for faulting Pirate players and a gift that few announcers in history possessed.
ReplyDeleteGreg Brown is quite good but terrified for his job.The Pirate gushing by ALL of them is revolting.
The great Bob Prince,whom I knew when I sold radio time for KDKA was a "homer" with class and an indescribable talent for faulting Pirate players and a gift that few announcers in history possessed.
ReplyDeleteGreg Brown is quite good but terrified for his job.The Pirate gushing by ALL of them is revolting.
Steve Blass has been a mistake from the get go.
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