re: Lynn Rollins Sayings

“Today’s sky color looks like a Catahoula Curr’s Dog Eye”

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Well, of course because they ARE all rehearsed. No one can talk completely spontaneously for 4 hours at a time with any consistency at all without preparing. He says in the interview that. Honkus linked that he thinks about that as he drives to games.

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Lyn is a professional. He does his homework. He shares a lot of interesting tidbits about the schools, the players, coaches, etc. He seems to work hard at his trade and listeners are the beneficiaries.

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I know im in the minority, but i cant stand his antics. Its not about him, its about the game.

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I totally agree. It's all so corn pone and hackneyed. It's nauseating.

I welcome the down votes.

You'd have to be old to remember this but Lyn cut his teeth doing Alexandria Aces games way back in the day. I enjoyed listening to him as a kid. Christ how fricking old is the guy now??

“We know that baseball is God’s favorite sport, because the first words in the Bible are ‘In the Big-inning’ “

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I know im in the minority, but i cant stand his antics. Its not about him, its about the game. If its on tv i mute it

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I relate it to Buckee's. He's like the broadcast version of Buckee's. The masses seem to love the home spun type corn pone presentation. For me as I said before, it comes of forced at times. I know he probably stays up at night trying to come up with humorous sayings.....for me some hit, some don't kinda like Berman with the nicknames.

It's not nearly as endearing to me as it is to many, but c'est la vie.

“He’s hotter than salsa on sunburn!”

As a former announcer, I find that his voice grates on me, but he's been on the air for so long I've come to really like him- for bits at a time. Not too much all at once. At least he has a distinctive voice which adds to the original flavor.

I love his efforts to make his broadcast entertaining- his originality and homespun sayings:

"He's more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs!"

He could use some variety on the home run calls. They've been too old and overused for a while now so much so that they've become irritating for me.

But I think he tries to keep adding new material. You can tell he's having fun calling the games, and that makes it fun for the listener, at least for me.

Carry on, Lyn!