Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but it seems to me that Baseball and Radio were absolutely made for each other. Ever since I was a little kid, when my Dad would make me go to bed before the Cubs got done playing and I would listen in my room on the radio, huddled under my comforter, I've listened to baseball on the radio. When we used to go camping almost every weekend, We'd always park the truck with the windows open so we could still hear the game on WGN.
This really only works with baseball. I work strange night hours at the aiport, often sitting in a small tug alone with only a radio all night. During the day, I'm stuck in a mineralogy laboratory staring at slides and rocks. I dont get to catch many sporting events on TV, so I listen on the radio alot. I've listened to hundreds of Bulls games on the radio, the last few NBA finals, Football on Monday nights, even some Auto Racing. Baseball is the only one where I feel like I'm really there.
I almost prefer baseball on radio, outside of being there. Sitting in the stands and scoring a game trumps everything, but the radio is a close second. I notice more if I hear it on the radio. Pat Hughes, the Cubs announcer, will tell me that Juan Pierre has his grey uniform pants tucked into his blue socks and his left shoe untied. He'll tell me the color of the ivy on the walls, or how many sailboats are out on the lake. I just love stuff like that.
I hate sterile ESPN TV announcers who dont care about either team. I love hearing Ron Santo go so crazy when we score that he's unintelligible. And I can feel his pain when he's in tears because we're getting spanked, or nothing is going right. I really hope the poor old dude doesnt die on the radio sometime, but I fear its going to happen.
So this is my "Baseball on the Radio" thread. I may have made this before, but I'm very high at the moment and felt like writing. Thanks for bearing with me.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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