Thoughts on Jeff Palermo

I agree but he gets behind on announcing the pitch count

I’m enjoying listening to him. He will only get better but I like his enthusiasm and energy he is bringing.

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he gets behind on announcing the pitch count

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I won't fault him for that, sounds like the scorekeeper at the game had a few too many at lunch before the game.

He's enthusiastic, maybe a bit raw, but he's pretty good.

Overall very good. You can tell sometime he gets excited and forgets to tell people what is happening but I’ll take that in baseball.

He does a fine job at accurately describing the play by play.

If someone describes a hit baseball as being “swatted out in to right field” then I’d picture that as a lefty pulling an outside pitch to RF with little velocity…Then i see the TV replay (of said play) of a frozen rope line-drive that hits the base of the wall in RF. Those are the kind of things that make me miss the old heads on 98.1

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He will only get better

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He’s been doing this for 15 years or more.

TERRIBLE call, IMO.

He gets a lot of criticism on here but I think he is just fine for a fill in.

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I had to do BPB for the Dallas Baptist game while relying on him. He was with Bill Franques, which alone redeems it, but Jeff did mess up the count a number of times, and talked over a number of first pitches to batters like they didn't even happen. I'd say he does a pretty good job of giving a general atmosphere, but not so much with the details.

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I got so damned drunk sitting at my desk at home following that game on the alexa on my desk while frickin off in your thread. Was a damned good time.

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I won't fault him for that, sounds like the scorekeeper at the game had a few too many at lunch before the game.

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I agree the scoreboard was on the fritz today. But he got behind on the pitch count Wednesday night also. But I do enjoy his enthusiasm.