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Active broadcasters only. Yes, I know this has been sorta discussed in other places. Based on recent performance only.

Best Play by Play: Al Michaels
Worst Play by Play: Dick Enberg

Best Color: Steve Stone
Worst Color: George Foreman (if he still does boxing color)
Worst Color: Pat Hayden (if Foreman isn't eligible

Best Studio Analyst: Charles Barkley
Worst Studio Analyst: Magic Johnson (edging out Kruk)

Best Studio Host: Bob Costas (when he's doing it - Chris Fowler when he's not)
Worst Studio Host: Linda Cohn (edging out Berman)

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Worst Play by Play: Anyone from Fox's MLB coverage

Best Color: Steve Stone
Worst Color: Anyone from Fox's MLB coverage

Best Studio Analyst: Ron Jaworski
Worst Studio Analyst: John Kruk, Anyone from Fox's MLB coverage

Best Studio Host: Sal Palontonio (sp)
Worst Studio Host: Stuart Scott, Anyone from Fox's MLB coverage

I'm the only person not bothered by Berman, as long as he stays away from baseball.

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I feel like McCarver has to be in here for something.


edit: good choice on Linda Cohn though, she is just insufferable at times

edit2: I don't know how people feel about Joe Buck, but I think he's very good

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Best Play by Play: Al Michaels

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I don't like him. He often ignores the action in the game for long periods of time to focus on his conversations with Madden, the sideline reporters and shills for the shows on the network.

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Best Color: Steve Stone

95% of my knowledge of the game of baseball came from this man. To those who got their first exposure to Stoney this year on ESPN, what do you all think of him?

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Kicking Stone out of the booth shows how [censored] retarded the entire Cubs organization is.

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95% of my knowledge of the game of baseball came from this man.

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Very good choice on Sir Charles. There is no more entertaining personality in sports IMO.

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Best:

Al Michaels
Keith Jackson (in his prime)
Brad Nessler

Worst:

Brent Musburger
Joe Morgan
Pat Summerall

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Best Play-by-play: JP Dellacamera.

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Best PBP: Gary Thorne. No matter the sport, he is very professional and always adds something to the game.

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Worst Anything: ESPN Sunday Night Football crew

re Musberger: While I don't think he's good, he's not terrible enough for me to not be able to tune him out.

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Worst Anything: ESPN Sunday Night Football crew

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Paul McGuire and Joe Theisman make me want to beat the living [censored] out of them.

Also, I'm surprised no one's given any props to Joe Buck.

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Also, I'm surprised no one's given any props to Joe Buck.

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read my post a bit more closely, I included him in one of the edits

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I like Johnny Miller as a color guy.


Lousy color guys: Theisman, that Paul guy he is with, Joe Morgan, Sutcliffe. ESPN is horrible at picking these guys.

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Best PbP: Harry Kalas. I live in Boston and I still tune in to the Phillies station at night when I can get it to hear Kalas call a game. He's already been inducted the Baseball HoF, and will probably be in the NFL HoF someday as well (he replaced the late, great John Facenda as the voice of NFL Films).

Worst PbP: So many bad ones out there. I guess I'll go with Mike Patrick.

Best Color: I'm going to pass on picking a best. I do want to say, as a non-Yankee fan, that I really like the work that Suzyn Waldman does on 880. I like to listen to baseball while I drive, even if it's teams I don't really care for. On the few Yanks' games I listened to, she did a solid job, and seemed to bring a lot of knowledge to the booth. It's nice to see a woman get a shot at a broadcasting job more involved than putting on make-up and asking "Coach, your team is down 28-0, are you going to make some changes for the 2nd half?"

Worst Color: You want to talk about bad announcers? You want to talk about a guy who has no business broadcasting a major professional sport? I want you to look at something here. I want you to look at Paul Maguire.

Best Host: Costas does a decent job on "Inside the NFL"

Worst Host: Pick someone who does an NFL pregame show. Any one of them, any of the 3 networks.

Best Studio Analyst/Reporter: Chris Mortensen. He has a Bat Phone to every GM in the league.

Worst Studio Analyst: Magic. He was possibly better as a talk show host.

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I'm really happy to see all the Steve Stone support here. He is the best baseball broadcaster there is.

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Best Color: Steve Stone
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Best Studio Analyst: Charles Barkley

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Best Color: I'm going to pass on picking a best. I do want to say, as a non-Yankee fan, that I really like the work that Suzyn Waldman does on 880. I like to listen to baseball while I drive, even if it's teams I don't really care for. On the few Yanks' games I listened to, she did a solid job, and seemed to bring a lot of knowledge to the booth. It's nice to see a woman get a shot at a broadcasting job more involved than putting on make-up and asking "Coach, your team is down 28-0, are you going to make some changes for the 2nd half?"

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I have no problem with women announcers. Pam Ward does a fine job.

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Worst Anything: ESPN Sunday Night Football crew

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Paul McGuire and Joe Theisman make me want to beat the living [censored] out of them.

Also, I'm surprised no one's given any props to Joe Buck.

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Joe Buck is horrible. He suffers from the Al Michaels "I think I'll start telling some long story or talking about some pointless stats while completely ignoring the action on the field" syndrome. Also he completely flipped out when Randy Moss did the pulling-pants-down routine in Green Bay last year, acting like Moss was raping his mother on the 50-yard-line or something. Grow up.

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Best Color: I'm going to pass on picking a best. I do want to say, as a non-Yankee fan, that I really like the work that Suzyn Waldman does on 880. I like to listen to baseball while I drive, even if it's teams I don't really care for. On the few Yanks' games I listened to, she did a solid job, and seemed to bring a lot of knowledge to the booth. It's nice to see a woman get a shot at a broadcasting job more involved than putting on make-up and asking "Coach, your team is down 28-0, are you going to make some changes for the 2nd half?"

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Is this some kind of bizzare parody?

I have no problem with women announcers. Pam Ward does a fine job.

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I really believe there aren't any women broadcasters who really are interested in the sport. I think they all are trying to use sports as a stepping stone to try to become the next Oprah.

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Kicking Stone out of the booth shows how [censored] retarded the entire Cubs organization is.

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I agree. The Cubs don't deserve him though. If there were any justice in this world, he'd be doing the world series so we all could enjoy.

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waldman is awful

i lost a lot of respect for her and sterling when they were complaining about texas taking its stars out of the last regular season game when it affected homefield. they [censored] that one up bad. sterling is awesome despite that, of course.

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Worst Anything: ESPN Sunday Night Football crew

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Paul McGuire and Joe Theisman make me want to beat the living [censored] out of them.

Also, I'm surprised no one's given any props to Joe Buck.

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Joe Buck is horrible. He suffers from the Al Michaels "I think I'll start telling some long story or talking about some pointless stats while completely ignoring the action on the field" syndrome. Also he completely flipped out when Randy Moss did the pulling-pants-down routine in Green Bay last year, acting like Moss was raping his mother on the 50-yard-line or something. Grow up.

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I don't like Joe Buck either. The nerd spends too much time trying to be funny. It's amazing he's considered the best Fox has.

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i [censored] hate larry merchant

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my girlfriend randomly busted out a hilarious impression of him the other day while driving. she hates him too.

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Best Color: I'm going to pass on picking a best. I do want to say, as a non-Yankee fan, that I really like the work that Suzyn Waldman does on 880. I like to listen to baseball while I drive, even if it's teams I don't really care for. On the few Yanks' games I listened to, she did a solid job, and seemed to bring a lot of knowledge to the booth. It's nice to see a woman get a shot at a broadcasting job more involved than putting on make-up and asking "Coach, your team is down 28-0, are you going to make some changes for the 2nd half?"

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I have no problem with women announcers. Pam Ward does a fine job.

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I really believe there aren't any women broadcasters who really are interested in the sport. I think they all are trying to use sports as a stepping stone to try to become the next Oprah.

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Probably not Pam Ward.

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waldman is awful

i lost a lot of respect for her and sterling when they were complaining about texas taking its stars out of the last regular season game when it affected homefield. they [censored] that one up bad. sterling is awesome despite that, of course.

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Best Color: I'm going to pass on picking a best. I do want to say, as a non-Yankee fan, that I really like the work that Suzyn Waldman does on 880. I like to listen to baseball while I drive, even if it's teams I don't really care for. On the few Yanks' games I listened to, she did a solid job, and seemed to bring a lot of knowledge to the booth. It's nice to see a woman get a shot at a broadcasting job more involved than putting on make-up and asking "Coach, your team is down 28-0, are you going to make some changes for the 2nd half?"

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I have no problem with women announcers. Pam Ward does a fine job.

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I really believe there aren't any women broadcasters who really are interested in the sport. I think they all are trying to use sports as a stepping stone to try to become the next Oprah.

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Probably not Pam Ward.

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I don't know who she is.

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Best Color: I'm going to pass on picking a best. I do want to say, as a non-Yankee fan, that I really like the work that Suzyn Waldman does on 880. I like to listen to baseball while I drive, even if it's teams I don't really care for. On the few Yanks' games I listened to, she did a solid job, and seemed to bring a lot of knowledge to the booth. It's nice to see a woman get a shot at a broadcasting job more involved than putting on make-up and asking "Coach, your team is down 28-0, are you going to make some changes for the 2nd half?"

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I have no problem with women announcers. Pam Ward does a fine job.

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I really believe there aren't any women broadcasters who really are interested in the sport. I think they all are trying to use sports as a stepping stone to try to become the next Oprah.

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I don't know who she is.

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She's the chick that Rover brought up a few posts up. She does CFB for ESPN2. Not terrible.

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I don't like Joe Buck either. The nerd spends too much time trying to be funny. It's amazing he's considered the best Fox has.

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That's because he actually is funny. He doesn't take himself too seriously. I think more play by play guys should try that. You should see him kareoke(sp?), he's freakin hilarious....

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He doesn't take himself too seriously

i get the exact opposite impression

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I'm really sad to see no other JP Dellacamera support here.

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He doesn't take himself too seriously

i get the exact opposite impression

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Really? If you don't mind me asking, why? To me, the general sillyness and willingness to say goofy things makes him a very good PbP guy. And he can turn it off in a heartbeat, when he needs to. Perhaps you feel like he's "trying to hard" to be funny, which would make it seem not genuine?

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Is this some kind of bizzare parody?

I have no problem with women announcers. Pam Ward does a fine job.

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No. The few times I have heard Waldman, I honestly enjoyed her announcing.

I have no problem with the concept of women announcers either. I commented because, in my sheltered life, I haven't heard a woman announcer other than Waldman, only sideline reporters (don't watch much CFB, haven't heard Ward). And I think this has more to do with prejudice by the networks (or their assumption of predjudice by their viewers) than with overall ability. And it's nice to see that changing, at least a little bit.

And for the Yankees fans who say she's terrible, maybe I've caught her on good days. Or maybe we'll just differ on this one.

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I think a basic problem with chicks as announcers is their voice. Women's voices are too high pitched and squeaky for announcing. That Jeannie whats-her-name on Fox is horrible. Tom Brenemann (who I like BTW) even smoked just to get his voice tone in the right place.

MAybe if they could run their voices through some type of converter........

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Worst Anything: ESPN Sunday Night Football crew


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I love the sunday night crew, the unintentional comedy is through the roof.

As for play by play Bill Raftery.

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I love the sunday night crew, the unintentional comedy is through the roof.

As for play by play Bill Raftery.

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I like him too - but he's color.


And how could I forget this one: worst color/studio guy if all time: DICK Vitale. Literally ruins every game he's on.

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Mike Breen is excellent.

Sunday Night Football crew requires the mute button.

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I love the sunday night crew, the unintentional comedy is through the roof.

As for play by play Bill Raftery.

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The unintentional comedy can be golden, but to have to sift through the other 80% is torture. I try to avoid Sunday night football at all costs.

JP Dellacamera is good.

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To me, the general sillyness and willingness to say goofy things makes [Joe Buck] a very good PbP guy.

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These are not the qualities that make a good play by play guy.

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Dan Fouts is a moron.

It seems week after week we listen to him make broad, over-reaching statements, that are often just incorrect.

Also, he must possess some rare sight ability, as he often will say, "watch this" to prove his point, and yet his description of the play never seems to come through on the replay.