re: Which was the better overall product: Cubs/Sox on WGN or Braves on TBS?

When did WGN start broadcasting Sox games? All I recall from my younger years was Cubs.

Skip Caray and Ernie Johnson doing the Braves games on WTBS was pure gold. Save the 82,83 and 84 teams the Braves were garbage in the 1980s. Folks basically tuned in for them.

"Steeeve, I see in the game notes that Mike Marshall is going back to L.A. to get some cocaine for his foot".
"Ahhh, that's novacaine, Harry".

Skip and his dry wit was great, and I think the actual TBS production value was better but I enjoyed watching the 84 Cubs on WGN. You never knew what you’d get with Harry on the mic.

Harry’s Jody, Jody Davis song was epic.

I went to Fulton County Stadium that year and saw Cubs at Braves. Got a pic of Harry waving to the fans.

Technically TBS was the more innovative professional broadcast
graphics , sound, camera work, because Harry and the cubs was enough

didnt have to do anything else

Turner put money into production
look at Gettysburg

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Steeeve, I see in the game notes that Mike Marshall is going back to L.A. to get some cocaine for his foot".

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We used to die when Harry would butcher “Rosh Hashanah” every year. “Steve won’t be on the broadcast this weekend as he’s a Jew, of Jewish persuasion and will be observing Rocka Shanana this weekend.

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You continue to refrain from working on the High Holidays as a broadcaster.

It’s not necessarily because of my religious beliefs, but it is out of respect for my grandparents and what they went through to get to this country. My grandmother came from a family of 13 kids in Russia, and 10 never made it out. Three made it to relative safety, one in South America and two in Ohio. My grandmother, being one, and her sister being another. When I look at the history of my ancestors and my direct family, knowing that my four grandparents all came from the old country, my mother’s father was Hungarian, her mother was Polish-Czech, and on my father’s side, my two grandparents are Russian. So they all fled the old country and came and made a new life here. It was the persecution and everything else that historically the Jews have gone through. I do it out of respect for not only my family but the family of all the Jewish people who went through certainly a lot more than I did trying to make a life for myself in this country.

It was certainly relatively easy for me, very difficult for them. It’s more a show of respect for those who have come before me.

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So many great memories watching the lovable losers with my grandfather after school & during the summer, especially once they became winners. Harry being shitcanned and belting out “Jodyyyy, Jodyyyy Davisssss, the king of Wrigley Field to the timing of Davy, Davy Crockett the King of the Wild Frontier

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Cubs/Sox

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easily, you had Caray and the Hawk.

WGN/Cubs and it’s not even close.

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When did WGN start broadcasting Sox games? All I recall from my younger years was Cubs.

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Life long Cubs fan with very fond memories of coming home from middle school (finished 8th grade in ’89) to watch the Cubs on WGN. I’d lay down in front of the tv on rec room floor with an after school snack and watch.

I was about to come in hot to argue that the Sox had ever played on WGN until the late ‘90s. Glad I googled it first.

Per Wikipedia

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The White Sox played on WGN for a number of years, with their broadcast history on the station including a long run from 1948 to 1967, a return in 1973 that lasted until 1980, and a final, longer period from 1990 to 2019.

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