I listened to the radio broadcast for the Saturday 3-2 win over LA, and I continue to have a beef with our announcers, both of them, especially with the new guy Wayne Hagin. They seem so indignant with the players when the ball is dropped, when our guys make outs out, etc. Then later, when a Met makes a play or raps a hit, it’s like, boy, its about time, he finally got it right. In effect, they take you back to the previous misplay or yesterday’s loss just when you want to be appreciating a good play. They do this constantly, and smugly.

I am amazed that a lot of their routine in-game banter is mud-throwing at the Mets.
If they were ex stars like Darling and Mex, they could get away with this. But they aren’t, and it comes off like carping and whining. An announcer should call the game…like Cohen and Murph…paint the picture, give it life, but let the fan fill in the blanks as far as evaluating the performance.

Wayne and Howie come up with a gripe early and hammer on it all game long. One day it was how with Oliver Perez pitching, there is no way the fielders can keep their heads in the game…those three errors by Pagan, Castillo, and Wright really should be charged to Perez. Last night it was Reyes’s early error. They brought it up about 15 times, and made it seem in the radio descriptino like the easiest play ever, “he dropped the ball”, “he failed to make the catch and let a run in”. But when I saw the video replay, later on, I was amazed to see that the ball came in fast and low on a bounce, nothing automatic about catching that ball. On the 45 second TV highlight, I hear the Fox announcers say “a tough hop”, “sort of skidded in there”, “it took one of those in-between bounces.” But my hometown announcers are, as I say, so indignant, and so into evaluating instead of just describing the game, they end up talking down their own team.

Gimp got hurt, wow, never saw that coming!