I feel bad that I just chased Mets Police Junior to bed in the middle of the second. Baseball can spin these “before 8” starts all they want – Jon Miller clocked it at 7:59pm. Then again, yesterday’s game started at 4 and I still would have chased him to bed.
I was talking to another one of my Yankee friends today, and he was raving about Miller and Morgan, and how they actually described the game.
Soak that in. Think about it. Here’s one of those big time obnoxious Yankees fans and he is telling me that he likes the ESPN guys because they describe the game. That’s how horrible Sterling and Suzyn are. Imagine (in the unlikely event the Mets were in a playoff, tickets available on Stubhub) bailing on Howie after 162 games. Of course you wouldn’t. The Yankee fan is excited to hear Morgan and Miller. Think how much Mets fans dislike Morgan and Miller – our nightmare is a Yankee fan Christmas.
My least favorite thing of all things Yankee is the Suzyn Stall. King Sterling will not say a peep until the first pitch is halfway to home plate. So on nights when 7:57 games start at 7:59 you get to enjoy Suzyn pull any random fact she can think of to kill time. So I got sick of that and headed over to 1050, but unfortunately 1050 uses batteries after dark and after I heard Miller tell me what time the first pitch was I headed back to 88.
Seeing Kazmir in a big game never gets old. As I write this the game is a scoreless tie so I don’t know what wound up happening, but this guy could go 10 and 14 for the Nippon Ham Fighters and Mets fans would still complain. Omar might want to consider acquiring him just to shut jerks like me up once and for all.
8:49 and it’s the 3rd. I’m good for about six innings tonight.
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I was saving this comment for Neil Best, but I'll give to you instead (or in addition) – In a way, a Yankees-Dodgers World Series would be great for sports broadcast schools and the sports media critics. You would have the world's worst baseball announcer in one radio booth (John Sterling from the Yankees) and the world's best in another (Vin Scully from the Dodgers) calling the same game and be able to study the two side-by-side to see the miles of difference.