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    #16
    The pitch clock didn’t seem to interfere much with John and Suzy’s usual folderol.
    Russian warship, go **** yourself

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      #17
      Originally posted by dannyyankou View Post
      I know people love to hate them, but I like that they seem like they genuinely enjoy the job. They don't take it too seriously, and they have fun with it.
      Sure, until a spring training vendor yells "PEANUTS!" too loud, upon which John gets very, very upset.
      I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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        #18
        In 20 years or so there will be fans who have found memories of listening to John and Suzyn in the same way a lot of us have found memories of listening to Messer, White and Rizzuto.

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          #19
          Originally posted by ymike673 View Post
          In 20 years or so there will be fans who have found memories of listening to John and Suzyn in the same way a lot of us have found memories of listening to Messer, White and Rizzuto.
          I certainly have fond memories of listening to Rizzuto, but I have no illusions that he was a great baseball broadcaster. He was a far more interesting character than Sterling, though.
          Russian warship, go **** yourself

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            #20
            Originally posted by JL25and3 View Post

            I certainly have fond memories of listening to Rizzuto, but I have no illusions that he was a great baseball broadcaster. He was a far more interesting character than Sterling, though.
            The funny thing, if you listen to a few scant examples still extant of Rizzuto announcing during the later years of the 1921-64 dynasty or even for several years afterwards, he wasn't a bad broadcaster at all (check out the national radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 1964 Yankees-Cardinals World Series in which he was paired with Joe Garagiola, it's weird, Garagiola is the one cracking jokes while Rizzuto plays it straight and sober throughout).

            Somewhere in the 1970s though he just got a case of "I don't care" disease that became progressive and aggressive for the rest of his career. Have no idea if the firings of his broadcasting mentors Mel Allen and Red Barber started that ball rolling (as he became the senior broadcaster once they were gone) or whatever.

            (One of my peeves with Billy Crystal's tribute to Billy Crystal, "61*," is that it depicts Phil as an on-air goofball even back in 1961. No. Allen and Barber would have thrown him out of the booth.)

            Agree that he was a much more interesting guy than Sterling, and even in his wacky years he could do things like make a blowout loss listenable in a way Sterling never could.
            I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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              #21
              Originally posted by HelloNewman View Post

              The funny thing, if you listen to a few scant examples still extant of Rizzuto announcing during the later years of the 1921-64 dynasty or even for several years afterwards, he wasn't a bad broadcaster at all (check out the national radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 1964 Yankees-Cardinals World Series in which he was paired with Joe Garagiola, it's weird, Garagiola is the one cracking jokes while Rizzuto plays it straight and sober throughout).

              Somewhere in the 1970s though he just got a case of "I don't care" disease that became progressive and aggressive for the rest of his career. Have no idea if the firings of his broadcasting mentors Mel Allen and Red Barber started that ball rolling (as he became the senior broadcaster once they were gone) or whatever.

              (One of my peeves with Billy Crystal's tribute to Billy Crystal, "61*," is that it depicts Phil as an on-air goofball even back in 1961. No. Allen and Barber would have thrown him out of the booth.)

              Agree that he was a much more interesting guy than Sterling, and even in his wacky years he could do things like make a blowout loss listenable in a way Sterling never could.
              I agree with you on all counts. I remember Phil as being pretty professional back in 1967. The one season the Yankees broadcast team consisted of 3 former major league players. And even towards the end of Phil's broadcast career he was still more fun to listen to than Sterling.

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                #22
                Great analysis here, especially about the morphing of Rizzuto from straight play by play guy to playing to character. The seventies had something to do with it also.
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeFmHEVzQ0

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                  #23
                  When Hjelle came in yesterday, Suzyn commented that he doesn’t throw hard, but because he’s so tall and releases closer to the plate, "the ball probably seems like it’s on top of you in like two seconds."

                  Two seconds? Really?
                  Russian warship, go **** yourself

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                    #24
                    John tonight at the start of the game noted that the Phillies are off to a bad start at 0-3, "but it was against a great team, the Astros." Well the Phillies did lose 3 in the state of Texas, so he got that right.

                    Later the dynamic duo were talking about Judge tying Mattingly on the all-time Yankee homer list. John noted that Babe Ruth has to be No. 1 and they started to muse on who might be number 2. Suzyn said it must be Gehrig. John agreed, yeah, probably Gehrig but maybe Yogi. Ultimately someone texted Suzyn to acquaint them with Mickey Mantle.
                    I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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                      #25
                      I admit I did not have the Jonas Brothers in my "who will John and Suzyn interview next?" Bingo card.
                      I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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                        #26
                        So it's "You can bet the ranchy on Franchy" for Cordero. Ughh.

                        Not "He's the Franch-ise"?
                        Not "The Franch Connection"?
                        I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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                          #27
                          Half listening today at work, they both kept heaping praise on Orlando Cabrera who I assumed was a Cleveland player.

                          Nope, they were talking about Oswaldo.

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by ace View Post
                            Half listening today at work, they both kept heaping praise on Orlando Cabrera who I assumed was a Cleveland player.

                            Nope, they were talking about Oswaldo.
                            Orlando Cabrera, veteran shortstop of the Expos and several other teams who last played in the majors in 2011.

                            He broke in to MLB in 1997. That's so long ago that neither John nor Suzyn were eligible for Social Security yet.
                            I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by HelloNewman View Post

                              Orlando Cabrera, veteran shortstop of the Expos and several other teams who last played in the majors in 2011.

                              He broke in to MLB in 1997. That's so long ago that neither John nor Suzyn were eligible for Social Security yet.
                              Triggered a memory of him for me too. The guy who replaced Nomar in Boston.

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                                #30
                                Apparently, John announced that Clay Holmes was pitching for the Yankees in the 9th inning tonight and didn't figure out until the first batter was retired that Michael King was still in the game.
                                I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, when they said "sit down" I stood up.

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