re: Chris Blair is terrible calling baseball

Great piece of hitting for Alex. Just a professional at bat.

Blair is great if you want to know what actually happened. If you’re cool with a guy calling a ball out at the track that didn’t leave the infield, then Hawthorne is your guy.

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Jim Hawthorne

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dude could make my neck hair raise.

Happens all the time. Been that way since he started and hoped it would improve but I think it's gotten worse. I turned it off driving home from work eventually just checking the game thread instead.

Also he still says base pads instead of basepaths.

Good voice but not good in calling baseball.

I like Hunt and Franques personally. Baseball nerds who always learn me sumthin but moreso they're immersed into each game.

When the other team scores or does something relevant, you can’t really tell until way after the fact. The South Carolina Homer game call is actually much easier to listen to.

Hawthorne was worse. You never knew the score or who was on base. There was never a reset to let the audience know what was going on. Then there was the constant bitching about the time. The man wanted it to end faster than a basketball game.

He is awful. I never know what is going on.

Horrible announcer all the way around. Baseball putrid.

Never happened this place is like a bunch of over dramatic women.