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Detroit Tigers, Volume 8: The Doc Cramer edition

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Dan Dickerson, who has been a competent PBP guy for many years for both baseball and football, and Jim Price, a member of our '68 team. You can tell when this team is playing poorly when Price starts to criticize them. He's an unabashed homer, but he will let them have it when they don't play the game properly.
 
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Dan Dickerson and Jim Price.

I like Dickerson. Price was a perennial backup catcher who can't pronounce names and uses the same five phrases.
 
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Once upon a time, a few years ago, they let Price do the middle three innings of PBP. That....was a very bad idea. Once they limited him to color, he improved by leaps and bounds.

NICE AREA!!
 
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damm site better than jerry remy and the other yahoo on boston TV. now those guys are homers!
 
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I've always looked at it this way:

The PBP guy has to be objective, for the most part. There's obviously a slant to every hometown broadcast. I get that. But tell us what happened, and be professional, first and foremost. Don't blow sunshine up my *** when we're getting drubbed 14-2 in the 6th inning. Ideal: Vin Scully. Avoid: John Sterling, Hawk Harrelson. I'm also not a fan of Tom Hamilton from Cleveland, either. We could do a whole lot worse than what we've got in Detroit.

The color guy, he can be a homer. Cheer for the home team a little bit, that's fine as long as you don't go overboard. Have some professionalism, but there's nothing wrong with injecting some levity into the broadcast where appropriate, and tell us why things happened. Ideal, IMO: Ron Santo.

Two guys in the broadcast booth, but also two different jobs entirely. There's an awful lot of people that do not make that distinction. That last statement does not apply to those that frequent this thread on a regular (or semi-regular) basis.
 
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My favorite radio broadcast was a Cubs game in the early 2000s. My dad and I were riding back from Iowa. The Cubs went down something like 14-0 in the first few innings against the Dbacks and fof the remaining innings you wouldn't have even known there was a baseball game. They somehow strung together a two hour conversation on the spelling of animal names.
 
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Ron Santo was like that. I caught a few Cubs broadcasts before he passed. There was one time where, in the heat of a pennant race late in the year, the Cubs left fielder booted a ball at Wrigley late in a game. Ron's reaction, over the airwaves? "OH, JESUS CHRIST!!" And he wasn't quiet about it, either.

But I'll also tell you this: no one cheered louder when the Cubs won, too. He loved that team.
 
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Remember the line drive off Uehara's arm? He did break it. Done for the season.

@RedSox: Koji Uehara has been diagnosed with a non-displaced distal radius fracture in his right wrist, suffered in Friday's game against the Tigers.
 
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I wondered if that was the case. He would have been darn lucky to get out of that with just a contusion.
 
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This might be a bad night. Boyd's gonna be somewhere around 65 pitches thru 3.
 
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Does the national blackout only apply for certain markets? I swear when St Louis or New York play there's a disclaimer that sports center will be shown in those markets, but I can always watch on ESPN and FSD when the Tigers are on Monday or Wednesday.
 
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That Cain home run was a DIRECT result of crappy umpiring, and it totally pizzas me off. We have gotten zero brakes for two days and I'm getting very tired of it. Edit. And you don't win games if you score 1 run in 18 innings.
 
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He got off to a nice start, but this game might be slipping away from Norris.
 
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Feliz. I wouldn't feel safe with a 10-run lead with him on the bump.
 
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It's pretty bad when a guy in a Moose costume looks normal.
 
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The way Ventura was playing Plinko with opposing hitters earlier this year, I don't want to hear one peep from Rios about getting drilled there.
 
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7-4 final
 
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