Worst toronto sportscasters?
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I think he understood the timeline.
Your interpretation would have been correct if he'd just said "up until last year when he was let go" but he said up until THE last year or so before he was let go".
A friend of mine was able to get a hold of Fergie Olver's (there is no "I" in his last name) media guide, so for several years we'd take our kids on road trips to Detroit to see the Jays play and we'd know in which hotel the Jays stayed and booked ourselves in. We'd hang around the lobby and get tons of autographs. I have a baseball which I'd caught off a Don Mattingly foul ball a few years earlier, and I took it along to Detroit and got it signed by Joe Carter, Tony Fernandez, Pat Borders and a few others on the team that won the second World Series
Thank you Fergie Olver.
No, not the same thing. If a ball hits the ground and goes over the fence, it's an automatic double, but just about everyone calls it a ground-rule double. It's also known as a rule book double. Ground rules refer to things that are specific to the field being used, such as hitting lights, other obstructions, or that fucking walkway in Tampa that's stolen a few home runs when balls bounce off it, back onto the field, and get called a ground rule double. On some occasions, unforeseen circumstances have caused an umpiring crew to invent a ground rule on the spot, but I don't think that's happened since Dave Kingman knocked one through a ventilation hole at the old Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
There's also an automatic triple, but that probably hasn't happened since Honus Wagner was playing T-ball.
Wilner's enthusiasm was way over the top, but I liked it. Obviously management saw differently, or there's something else we're not privy to. Still a mystery.
Jeff Blair is irritating..........he always seems...................he always seems to repeat himself...for reasons....for reasons unknown.......and continually interrupts Kevin Barker
Paul Jones is a class act who never missteps
and of course Dan Shulman is the gold standard
Paul Jones is a class act who never missteps
and of course Dan Shulman is the gold standard
Thank you for pointing that out. I figured if I responded I would just look defensive and make things worse, so I just walked away.
I liked Wilner, especially his passion and knowledge. Everytime I listened to him on Jays Talk after the game I wondered if this would be the day he had a stroke because of his frustration with the callers.
I'd still like to know what was between Wilner and Bob McCown. Wilner never appeared on PTS when McCown was hosting. However, when McCown was away they would have Wilner on speaking to the fill in host.
I'll cut Blair some slack. Doing live radio is not easy, so repeating yourself is a trick to buy time to think of what you're going to say next. Also, Barker talks over Blair just as much as Blair talks over him.
Blair has been around so long his knowledge and experiences make him worth listening to.
My favourite Blairism is when he starts a sentence "I'm not saying....." and then proceeds to say exactly what he told us he wasn't going to say, just in a different way.
I like and respect Jones. However, when he insists basketball is the hardest of the major sports to officiate, a lot of my respect goes down the toilet.
Come on guy it's the same shit. Technically an automatic double is a universal ground rule for every stadium....
If you follow him on Twitter it will give you some insight on him.I liked Wilner, especially his passion and knowledge. Everytime I listened to him on Jays Talk after the game I wondered if this would be the day he had a stroke because of his frustration with the callers.
I'd still like to know what was between Wilner and Bob McCown. Wilner never appeared on PTS when McCown was hosting. However, when McCown was away they would have Wilner on speaking to the fill in host.
I remember when the Jays gave him a timeout for a weekend from the broadcasts over his criticizing Cito Gaston.
From a fans point of view I was delighted with his honesty but you could see this wasn't going to bode well his employers.
He is a Tom Cheek loyalist to the very end though....Love that.
The show sucks, and we can throw Barker's wife in there too.
I do find that Barker is pretty good as the colour guy when doing play by play on the radio though.
That was so fucking stupid how he got in trouble for that. All he did was ask a logical question that pissed Cito off. Cito basically refused to answer the question so Wilner was the one that got in trouble for it.
