re: Hawthorne's call of Zardon hit

The next two minutes of him and Bill talking about how the wind must be blowing harder than it appears.

"Bill, it looks like there's a magnet drawing things back in here tonight."

It was "way out of here," and Rhymes tracked it down in what was described only as "left-center." Not on the track or at the fence. Just in left-center. HAHA

Pros: his voice and excitement
Cons: everything else

I'd rather him over someone who sounds extremely disinterested and monotone.

Cough hanagriff

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Lay off the man. He has a lot more class than all of you gutless cowards who would pee all over yourself if you got behind the mike. It's easy to criticize him, but you could never do what he has done. Gutless cowards-ALL OF YOU CRITICS..

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I love venturing over to the rant on Fridays.

explain to me what was stupid about my post.

Gladly ...first off your insinuation that he doesn't properly call the games is stupid and just not true.
Secondly... He is Fan.
He's excited just like me and you and everybody else when something good happens in crucial time of the game. Big fricking deal if a boarder line call has to be re-done...
The vantage points in baseball are different.. It's hard to tell exactly what's what on every hit ... It fools the fans the majority of time....
Not to mention a rocket smashed down the 3rd base line that happens in about 1.5 seconds.

Get the frick over yourselves ... Y'all act like somehow him saying foul, then a instant later retracting it and saying fair ball Tigers win! somehow ruined it for you.

I'm not a moron when It comes to LSU sports....I have eyes and an understanding of what's happening...so I'm not obsessed with perfection from the play by play guy.
I want a brand voice and excitement.
Jim Hawthorne provides both and always has.
That's why he is and always will be the voice if the Tigers.
DWI bitches.

Says the kid that whines about the PBP guy.

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.first off your insinuation that he doesn't properly call the games is stupid and just not true.

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Um... he makes many mistakes. And mistakes are fine; but you have to be pretty deaf and ignorant not to realize that he's gotten worse.

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He is Fan.

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No doubt. Relevance?

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Big fricking deal if a boarder line call has to be re-done...

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Usually, I'd agree. But he does it on huge plays. The biggest plays. At least here he did.

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The vantage points in baseball are different.. It's hard to tell exactly what's what on every hit ... It fools the fans the majority of time....
Not to mention a rocket smashed down the 3rd base line that happens in about 1.5 seconds.

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I agree. Which is why most would wait for the play to be called... "Ball hit down the 3rd base line and it's..... FAIR! It's FAIR!" Why call it foul immediately if you don't know? That's the exact opposite of what he should be doing.

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Y'all act like somehow him saying foul, then a instant later retracting it and saying fair ball Tigers win! somehow ruined it for you.

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Of course it doesn't ruin it. Who has said that? It's a mistake though. Yet another one. And you seem really upset when people point it out. Relax.

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I want a brand voice and excitement.
Jim Hawthorne provides both and always has.

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And he used to be more accurate, less negative, and less old. It's been time to go.

He was great. But he's not anymore. And that's okay. Nostalgia gets a lot of people. I understand. Nothing wrong with that. But don't pretend that he's still good at what he does (especially with baseball).

I know JH prob just as well as you do.