Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
I dunno. Scully was the broadcaster for the 1981 NFC Championship game and on the deciding touchdown, there's really nothing memorable about that call to me - just the play is memorable. Compared to say the call on Kirk Gibson's HR vs. the A's, it's just not in the same league to me. He was good enough to do a good job, but I don't really think of him as excelling in football.sycasey said:Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
Scully was good at football too.
My daughter's third grade teacher (Giants fan) hates Miller with the intensity of 1,000 suns. I always got a kick out of that.calumnus said:Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
For Bay Area baseball play by play I am a big fan of John Millerand this coming from a LA Dodger/Vin Scully loyalist.
Yogi Bear said:I dunno. Scully was the broadcaster for the 1981 NFC Championship game and on the deciding touchdown, there's really nothing memorable about that call to me - just the play is memorable. Compared to say the call on Kirk Gibson's HR vs. the A's, it's just not in the same league to me. He was good enough to do a good job, but I don't really think of him as excelling in football.sycasey said:Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
Scully was good at football too.
I love how hard you try to win at things that can't be won.GMP said:Yogi Bear said:I dunno. Scully was the broadcaster for the 1981 NFC Championship game and on the deciding touchdown, there's really nothing memorable about that call to me - just the play is memorable. Compared to say the call on Kirk Gibson's HR vs. the A's, it's just not in the same league to me. He was good enough to do a good job, but I don't really think of him as excelling in football.sycasey said:Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
Scully was good at football too.
It's very Starkey-esque: great voice; if you're listening on radio, it's hard to know whats going on, but on TV it's perfect. And his call about Clark's height is iconic, if you ask me.
GMP said:Yogi Bear said:I dunno. Scully was the broadcaster for the 1981 NFC Championship game and on the deciding touchdown, there's really nothing memorable about that call to me - just the play is memorable. Compared to say the call on Kirk Gibson's HR vs. the A's, it's just not in the same league to me. He was good enough to do a good job, but I don't really think of him as excelling in football.sycasey said:Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
Scully was good at football too.
It's very Starkey-esque: great voice; if you're listening on radio, it's hard to know whats going on, but on TV it's perfect. And his call about Clark's height is iconic, if you ask me.
Maybe. But King paired with Lon Simmons was classic. As one critic put it, they don't call a game, they converse it.Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
Ditto. He was the forerunner of modern day journalism. Because he got away with it, it encouraged thousands to try it.helltopay1 said:
Keith Olbermann??If only I had a 500 lb bar of soap to wash out his mouth.
And I love your total lack of self-awareness.Yogi Bear said:I love how hard you try to win at things that can't be won.GMP said:Yogi Bear said:I dunno. Scully was the broadcaster for the 1981 NFC Championship game and on the deciding touchdown, there's really nothing memorable about that call to me - just the play is memorable. Compared to say the call on Kirk Gibson's HR vs. the A's, it's just not in the same league to me. He was good enough to do a good job, but I don't really think of him as excelling in football.sycasey said:Yogi Bear said:He was decent.bearister said:
I loved Bill King but wasn't Vin Scully a pretty decent baseball announcer?
Actually in my opinion, baseball was King's weakest sport. Same for Greg Papa. Both better doing basketball and football. Baseball is a sport that I think is generally done better by people who only do baseball.
Scully was good at football too.
It's very Starkey-esque: great voice; if you're listening on radio, it's hard to know whats going on, but on TV it's perfect. And his call about Clark's height is iconic, if you ask me.
Big C said:Big Art's wasn't around after the mid-1970s, was it? In which case Johnny "Love" Metheny would've been about five years too young to tend bar there.bearister said:SFCityBear said:
....Was your Big Art the same guy who had a band called "Big Art and the Trash Masters" who played in the clubs down on San Pablo Ave in the 1970's? They wore shades, levis and white t-shirts, and looked like motorcycle mechanics. They played '50s rock and roll. Smoking hot!
SFCB, I don't know the answer to your question. My memory going back 42 years is that Art was a stocky clean shaven guy with a full head of blond hair in a surfer cut. I also know that Johnny "Love" Metheny was a bartender there and probably had an ownership interest in Big Art's.
It was a very cramped space. The bands I saw play there included Eddie Money, Delta Wires and Arm and Hammer. It was also the place I was physically threatened by Tom Bates' bodymen when he was running for the State Assembly.
