Complaints about Baseball Announcers

There are biased announcers and there are objective announcers. And it is difficult to listen to a biased announcer, esepecially for a team you don't like.

Probably some of the most biased come from the Atlanta Braves: Skip Carey, Chip Carey, Joe Simpson and all the rest. I can honestly say that one of the main reasons I abhor the Braves more than any other team is because of their biased announcing. This should be the one team that has objective announcing. The Ted Turner owned braves telecast many of their games on TBS - a national cable channel. Probably no other team has more out of market fans watching than the Braves. Many, like me, watch Braves games on TBS because we like watching baseball, not because we like the Braves.

I know the announcer are employees of their team's organization, but must they always include themselves with the team. "WE need to score a few runs..." "WE need a strikeout here..." Must they call the players by their first names? I can understand if the player is a superstar - we all know who Tiger, Michael, LeBron, Barry, and Ichiro are; but please..."Nice play by Andrew"?

The Angels announcers are similar. Steve Physioc and Rex Hudler - please save your home team cheering for home. Bring some objectivity to the booth.

I don't like the Giants, but Jon Miller's radio broadcast could be the most objective around.

Other announcers come across as "big time." There is an arogance that comes through the mic. An attitude that they are the final say in any subjective topic. Joe Buck comes across this way to me. (Interestingly enough, so does Troy Aikmen in football and they share the same booth.)

Give me somebody smart, humble, and honest. Some guys don't tell the truth either because they dumb down the broadcast for kids or they protect the relationship they share with players. Others are very generic in the things they say.

Orel Hershiser does a great job of being smart, humble, and honest. Eric Karros is very generic.

And will somebody please out bid FOX for the postseason?! If I have to listen to Jeannie Zelasco try to give a pregame analysis one more time...