re: Hannagrif calling baseball games...

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So sour grapes? Wounded pride?
Personally I find Hannagrif annoying.

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I don't think it was sour grapes but who knows.

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I think Blair has a great voice and is very professional. However it just doesn’t seem authentic and is almost too polished.

I never cared for Hawthorne but you could feel his passion for LSU. Blair just doesn’t have a real connection but perhaps it will develop.

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You nailed it. I am a big fan of Hani because he is so knowledgeable about sports in general. He is rarely wrong but is the first to admit it when he is. Then will tell you if he doesn't know something. I wanted him to get the full time gig because of his passion for LSU. Most didn't because he can be very dry. That being said Blair has a great radio voice and is very very good. I think the longer he is here he will develop that passion for LSU sports that you can hear and cannot fake.

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He’s better than Blair IMO

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Yeah Blair is better but JH had a passion for LSU and you could hear it in his voice. Blair will get there with time.

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I agree with this... Hanny is just to monotone for me... His excitement level NEVER goes over A 5.........

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Blair is a big improvement over Hawthorne and Hannigriff.

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Blair has obvious faux excitement during football games.

Hanagriff has everything you’d like in a baseball play by play-or a color commentator for that matter-except for a good radio voice.

Loved his stuff but disliked the delivery.

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Hannigriff really was an excellent baseball play by play/

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He sounds like he's on Valium.

He's one of us though, (Have no idea where he grew up and/or went to HS/College) so that gets all the "Luziana Lifers" excited.

Behind the scenes, Hani wasn't very liked. They were looking for a reason to get rid of him. Before the season started, he went in asking for a raise and left without a job. He later announced that they mutually agreed to part ways, but that really wasn't the case.

I wish he still called games. His voice is very monotone and his excitement level sounds a bit forced, but I'd rather an LSU guy with a poor radio voice than someone with a great voice that doesn't care about the Tigers. I've enjoyed his sports commentary since the mid 90's. He's a Tiger fan through and through.

The middle third with Hanny calling the PBP was my favorite part. What I wouldn't give to get hanny back in the baseball booth. Maybe we need to start a petition.

"Here's the pitch... CALLED STRIKE THREEEE!!!!"

Hanny bleeds p&g

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Blair is a big improvement over Hawthorne and Hannigriff. LSU made a great hire.

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I agree 100%. Chris Blair was a homerun hire. And he is SO VERY much better at calling football games than Hawthorne. For his last few years, Hawthorne was constantly getting the names of players wrong. I still remember in the 2012 Alabama game, he called Mettenberger "McCarron" twice on one drive.

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Behind the scenes, Hani wasn't very liked. They were looking for a reason to get rid of him.

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Not sure whether I fully believe this, but I don't doubt it very much. Hannigriff does have a bit of an ego and is a bit of a whiner. I remember during the 2015 football season, there was a game where it just rained cats and dogs before and during the game, and during the week afterwards on one of his shows, he went on and on in criticizing some security guard who did his job and wouldn't give him special treatment and allow him to enter the stadium in a restricted entrance. Apparently Hannigriff had forgotten his press I.D. or something like that. I think the security guard was his "no class" for the week.

That being said, I think Hannigriff is the best sports radio guy around concerning LSU. His knowledge is unmatched by anyone else and he has always kept things "real," and not been hyperbolic. You can also tell he is a huge LSU fan, and can't stand Alabama, which I totally agree with him on. "Sports Today" is the bomb.