ESPN announcers, the worst

xnas wrote:

These two idiots, Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, are giving Carol Lewis a run for worst announcers in sports.

Last inning, Miller said Carlos Lee was leading off for the Cubs. The name of the player is Derrick Lee.Then after the break, he says Carlos Lee plays in Milwaukee after signing a big free agent contract. Carlos Lee used to play there, he was traded to Texas then signed as a free agent in Houston.

At least he got the "Lee" part right.

And that idiot Joe Morgan, all he wants to do is talk about when he played and the guys from his era. He isn't even getting the weather right, he was just talking about how Wrigley field is a hot spot in the city and it was cooler in other areas. The mute button is on.

Carol Lewis was ranting on about how Mottram beat KENENISA Bekele at the Pre Classic 2-mile during the London meet...

Joe Morgan is horrible. He needs to check his facts before opening his mouth. Being a little less biased wouldn't hurt his cause either.

Joe Morgan definitely is one of the worst I've ever had to listen to for ESPN baseball. Disturbingly, he is perhaps as bad as our leading lady Ms. Carol Lewis.

However, all Red Sox fans have a special place in their hearts for Joe Buck, quite possibly the worst playoff announcer in history for his work during the 2004 ALCS. As my old roomate said . . . "Dear Joe Buck - I hate you."

Joe is so bad he has been on the headline ESPN broadcast for 9 years and has about 5 left on his contract.

i love joe morgan, only because he provides so much material for firejoemorgan.com - a must read for anyone who likes criticizing the idiocy of sports writers/announcers and joe in particular.

They were going on and on about the ovation the Cub fans were giving Glavine coming off the field.The two morons didn't even think that the home fans were cheering for Kerry Wood, making his first appearance in over a year.

They finally figured that out the next inning, right when they were saying Glavine was coming out of the game, then the camera shows him putting his helmet on to come and bat, THEN THEY STILL WOULDN'T ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG.

Not only are these two boring, they have no awareness for anything other than the obvious.

Just to provide some balance here, I love those guys and think they are among the best in baseball. I would watch those two announce teams I am otherwise uninterested in just to hear them talk. The worst - the Hawk and his sychophants in Chicago closely followed by Jim Palmer.

Mister E wrote:

Joe Morgan is horrible. He needs to check his facts before opening his mouth. Being a little less biased wouldn't hurt his cause either.

A classic Morgan moment is his reaction to Moneyball. He criticized Billy Beane for writing a book about himself that makes him look like a genius. After being told that it was in fact Michael Lewis and not Beane who had written Moneyball, he continued his attacks of ignorance. His witty retort to what he would do if he was Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane was "I wouldn't be Billy Beane first of all! I wouldn't write the book Moneyball!" Biased moron.

Glavines wife must have blown the producer today, she has had more face time during the game than either of the managers.

Turn on the game if you want to see that fat slob Miller sweating through his bright yellow shirt.

Watching wrote:

Glavines wife must have blown the producer today, she has had more face time during the game than either of the managers.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. She is very pretty.

Joe Morgan is a racist, plain and simple. Jon Miller sucks. I would much rather listen to Cohen and Darling in the booth.

Joe Morgan's terrible exercise phys lesson after Soriano came off with a strained quad was comical because it was largely made up as he went along

MLB is roided, phony, fake. Who cares.

Hilarious rants.

Tonight was one of the few times I ever watch baseball on TV, the reason being Glavine. I would not for one moment complain about the amount of screen time his wife got. She's a very lovely adult. What I did notice about Miller and Morgan, in a pause in the action when the camera showed them in the booth, is that Morgan doesn't seem to pay much attention to Miller at all.

Of course they are not as good as Tom Hamilton and Mike Hegan but I have always enjoyed listening to them. I don't always agree with Morgan's opinion but he is one of the best at actually watching the game and telling you what happened and why.

Miller realized right away that the ovation was for Kerry Wood. They were just joking about it the next inning.

rippy cripple wrote:

Miller realized right away that the ovation was for Kerry Wood. They were just joking about it the next inning.

Uh, no, they didn't realize it because they had their nose too far up Glavine's colon to be objective. They even admitted they thought it was for Glavine at first.

Now I understand why you like Morgan, neither one of you pay attention to what's going on in the game.

I like Miller.

I strongly dislike:

Steve Phillips

Kruk

Sutcliffe

But the absolute worst is the greatest blowhard of them all, Chris Berman

Chris Berman is so dated. He hasn't evolved one bit as an announcer or sports commentator.

An analogy I would use for him, would be if one of the original MTV VJ's came on TV now, clothes hairstyle and all then tried to act like they were popular.