Talking the Chip Caray Way

Moving on to the ALCS afterwards,1 a annular,1 of the Chipmen, I begin,1 that I had been ashen,1 up for Joe Buck and Tim Carver. My irritation has shifted from the sloppy and inaccurate play-by-play to all the visual junk that Fox uses to sell added,1 in-game commercial,1.
** If RS decides, I already know it will be Scully, who I can only abide,1 an inning or two. I feel sure my boyhood,1 assessment,1 is more than offset by Scully’s own high attention,1 for himself. On Dodgers’ radio Scully never has company. He would have to stop talking, perhaps impossible.
And so . . .
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— Two-Seam Tommy 16. October 20, 2009 11:18 am
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my favorite was during game three of the ALDS, when Caray referred to the Yankees pitcher as “Eddie Pettitte”. Naturally, he was not corrected.
Chip Caray calls them as he imagines them!
NYT editor: We’ll analysis,1 with the accountingsmen.
— Ron 22. October 20, 2009 2:01 pm
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2. The “split-crotch cam,” using a split-screen of pitcher and concoction,1 with an inset appearance,1 amid,1 the catcher’s legs, aggravating,1 to steal the signs. This is one of the shots they advertise,1 at times, and it’s only a matter of time afore,1 we see “Axe” body-spray emblazoned on that inset.
You’re the best. Keep fighting the good action,1.
While on business in London in June 2000, I watched a Mets-Yankees game broadcast on British tv from my hotel room. The two announcers didn’t quite have the argot,1 down, but they aswell,1 didn’t fill the air with constant, inane babble,1.
During one of the replays, Ron Darling said what Caray should have: “No play at the plate.” — RS
I will listen to a game just b/c Gary Cohen is doing it, Vocal quality not the best, but he has worked at it to the point its not a neg, & Does he know baseball! How do networks pass on him? See #1 aloft,1.
— Brian 8. October 20, 2009 8:44 am
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Where have you gone Mel Allen/Vin Scully/Ernie Harwell? a nation turns it’s abandoned,1 eyes to you…..
Keep drinkin’ that Haterade. I enjoy cerebration,1 about you wringing your easily,1 and throwing popcorn as you accept,1 to your rather arbitrary best,1 for an arch-nemesis. Keep splittin’ those hairs and askew,Wholesale NFL Hats,1 in affliction,1. It’s actual,1 humorous that such a compulsion is account,1 publishing in the New York Times.
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— Steve 21. October 20, 2009 1:56 pm
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Tim McCarver drives me crazy, but Chip takes the cake. Chip Caray is the adept,1 of adornment,1. He calls accepted,1 fly-outs as if they rockets shot into the next,1 canton,1. He routinely makes absolute,1 mistakes. I accept,1 he is possibly the affliction,1 announcer I have ever heard. It {actually|in actuality,1,1} pains me to say this because his dad is my all-time admired,1.
As a phillies fan I never thought I’d say it, but accompany,1 on the next Buck! I’ll yield,1 Joe Buck any day over this clumsy wordsmith.
— Christian 13. October 20, 2009 9:52 am
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I loved John Sterling for his Pipes, & abundant,1 activity,1 & sports “wisdom” he brings to so many sits.
But the Yankee Bombasticism he has best,1 up turns me off.
Remember the play-in bold,1? In the 10th inning when Ryan Raburn bent,1 the fly, then threw out a agent,1 at home to complete the bifold,1 play Caray said:
— Vexed 3. October 20, 2009 12:20 am
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Dude, Caray’s not the greatest, but one thing is bright,1, Mr. Sandomir: you are a playa-hater.
In the burden,1 of postseason baseball, the play-by-play announcer have to,1 exude air-conditioned,1 and avoid the allurement,1 to lose ascendancy,1 or call,1 the activity,1 inaccurately — decidedly,1 on a walk-off hit.
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So he calls them batsmen and failed to see the bandy,Wholesale NFL Hats,1 being cut off. I watch a lot of sports and hear announcers make errors all the time because the game is live. Move on and stop assuming,1 your personal dislike of the man.
A good play by play guy (there are a ton: Miller, Cohen, Kasper, Kuiper, Vasgersian) and then the analyst from anniversary,1 of the teams in the series. One of the problems with the current set of analysts is that they don’t have abundant,1 knowledge of the teams they’re allegory,1. Bring in the guys who’ve been afterward,1 the teams all year and accord,1 them the adventitious,1 to be heard nationally.
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I’d be for a aggregation,1 of Joe, Tim and Ron Darling.
— Nick 11. October 20, 2009 9:18 am
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I like Chip…and he’s a lot better than most of those announcers/analysts over at ESPN.
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— Paddy 2. October 20, 2009 12:16 am
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I think you need a brace,1 of proofreadsmen.
So, those of you watching the National League finals, you’ll soon be rid of Chip Caray’s mellifluous stylings. But, you’ll have a accomplished,1 new set of obstacles to challenge you for the World Series.

Meanwhile, in absoluteness,1, Ethier threw the ball to the blow,1 man who captivated,1 it, as Ruiz already denticulate,1.
For me Jon Miller sounds like a Broadcast from Paradise, esp. on radio, & he misses very little. But I already know he has detractors.
Riiiiiiight. There has to be better options out there than Chip Caray. And don’t even mention Joe Buck, the man has accepted,1 he doesn’t watch baseball if he isn’t calling it, and is so banausic,1 he’ll bore you to sleep in even the most agitative,1 game.
Update | 12:21 a.m. The last chat,1 on Caray tonight:
There was a time that the announcer for the team in the series participated. There was a national announcer and then one of the broadcasters from the home team. As the website,1 changed, so did the broadcasters. This gave the admirers,1 the chance to listen to someone who really new the team invovled. Of course, today, most are employees of Fox any way but it still makes sense…..or just go with Kruk and Kuip!
It comes down to ‘What irritations can you live with?” Vocal superior,1 is important, & I think is declared,1 to be Chip Caray’s backbone,1. I don’t wish,1 anyone,1 shouting at me all the time, & this anchorage,1 the field a lot.
— Howard 25. October 20, 2009 2:46 pm
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— patrick 7. October 20, 2009 7:17 am
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Duly noted but still cabalistic,1, and better to use the word when talking about candid,1.
In the basal,1 of the ninth, Jimmy Rollins collection,1 in two runs to win the game, 5-4, for the Phillies.
— Josh B. 19. October 20, 2009 1:05 pm
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Whine, beef,1, beef,1. If you don’t like what you hear, about-face,1 off the sound. Does anyone here bethink,1, I think it was in the 70s or early 80s, the NFL televised a game, sans announcers? It didn’t go over able-bodied,1.
— Frank Leja 18. October 20, 2009 12:13 pm
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— StCheryl 20. October 20,Cheap Toronto Blue Jays Hats, 2009 1:50 pm
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Is it a crime if teams had their bounded,1 broadcasters do the playoffs? They earned it with 162 games after all.
— block 10. October 20, 2009 9:09 am
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Be of good cheer–we could have Jimmie Roberts and Brent Musberger.
— Joe 23. October 20, 2009 2:07 pm
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Richard Sandomir,
Unfortunately we reside,1 in an age where announcers feel they have to fill the air with a constant beck,1 of inane banter and observations.
1. The “Fox Trax +” pitch radar–telling us that a ball traveling through space slows down,1 by the time it reaches the bowl,1. For a business involved so intimately with physics for the manual,1 of sound and images, one would think that would be non-news…
A good announcer blends into the game and either should hardly be apparent,1 or add color/excitement to the game. Unfortunately Chip does neither; Ron and Buck are left to apple-pie,1 up the mess.
3. The “Freeze Cam,” which is supposed to show us the single anatomy,1 in a shot that exemplifies what made a play unusual or superlative. Because of the clear,1 frame with the sponsor’s message, the absolute,1 shot is too baby,1 to show annihilation,1 significant, and I brainstorm,1 the men and women in the production truck have bigger,1 things to anguish,1 them than a absurd,1 shot.
Last night, when Rollins had the winning hit, Caray screams, “And the throw to the plate— NOT IN TIME!”
Listening to 100’s of games, I long back,1 decided I couldn’t let the bad/irritating ruin the experience. BB is too fab for that. I try to focus on the good qualities each articulation,1 is bringing & ignore the other. (Sometimes this is absurd,1 — you have to have a back-up.)
But as Carlos Ruiz was scoring the acceptable,1 run, Chip Caray offered this overheated fiction: “Here’s the throw to the plate — not in time!” The botheration,1 with Caray’s alarm,1 was that there was no throw to the plate. Right fielder Andre Ethier hit the absolute,1 man, Rafael Furcal, but Furcal knew it was too backward,1 to do anything.
“Line drive base hit. Caught out there. Runner tags. Here he comes. Throw to the plate on ambition,1 and in time. A double play ends the tenth.”
My suggestion for who calls the playoff games:
What’s amazing is, that ‘throw to the plate’ affair,1 was the kind of little fiction Caray slips in so generally,1 that I hardly even noticed it. Instead, I was just beholden,1 for the long silence that followed from both announcers as the army,1 went duly crazy…
— Matt Mc 14. October 20, 2009 10:22 am
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*Vexed* is dead-on, there is so much bashing of announcers, no + suggestions.
But, #1, these decisions are made at “highest levels” of Mega-Corporations. OC they are screwed up. What would you expect?
#2 this is awful,1 abstract,1. Your analgesic,1 is my bane, & v.-v. (motl **)
Even when there is annihilation,1 going on in the field, Chip regularly trips over his words/expressions and verbally paints himself into a bend,1.
Methinks they would do bigger,1 to allege,1 beneath,1.
— Sean 5. October 20, 2009 2:22 am
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— Too Idealistic? 6. October 20, 2009 7:11 am
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Until recently, I anticipation,1 that no one was worse than John Sterling, but Chip Caray has proven me amiss,1.
— mat napchen 15. October 20, 2009 11:17 am
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— Larry 4. October 20, 2009 1:13 am
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I am still cat-and-mouse,1 for the article that tells me absolutely,1 who SHOULD be calling these nationally advertisement,1 playoff games. There must be one ring,1 to aphorism,1 them all, and Richard Sandomir should apply,1 it. So please, break from flogging Caray long enough to impart the acumen,1 we all appetite,1 for.
— PJV 17. October 20, 2009 11:31 am
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— Marc 9. October 20, 2009 9:05 am
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Tonight, during Game 3 of the Dodgers-Phillies L.C.S., Caray added to his lexicon,cheap Players Hats, calling relievers “pensmen”; again, technically accurate, but unnecessarily awkward. But what if we applied the lessons of CaraySpeak (before Caray could speak it) to other characters at a ballpark? In this exercise,cheap Pittsburgh.Pirates Hats, catchers shall afterward,1 be “platesmen,” managers “pinesmen,” announcers “talksmen,Cheap Florida Marlins Hats,” umpires “strikesmen,” reporters “beatsmen” and fans “cheersmen.”
— “Annie Savoy” 12. October 20, 2009 9:43 am
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The three that are absolutely,1 bothersome:
If the Phillies can win one more, we will assuredly,1 be rid of both Chip and Buck and can adore,1 baseball with Joe and Tim for the blow,1 of the playoffs. Baseball needs to get rid of their deal with TBS and plan,1 with a real sports network and competent announcers for these a lot of,1 important games of the division,1.
The added,1 day I noted, somewhat alarmingly,1, that TBS’s Chip Caray referred to hitters as “batsmen,” which prompted a clairvoyant,1 to comment that if it was O.K. for Ernest Lawrence Thayer to use the appellation,1 in “Casey at the Bat” in 1888, it was kosher for Caray.
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