Take the "over"--no matter how high the line--on how many times the announcers mention these things in Saturday night's broadcast of ALCS Game 6:
Tampa Bay
Re TB franchise: Discussion of whether they can make a multiple-year run with their young talent core, the way Atlanta did.
Crawford: Connection with Baldelli as the early faces of the franchise.
Longoria: Maddon telling him to get his strike zone back before the playoffs. Missing time with injury.
Upton: How he "glides" in the outfield. His shoulder problem, which robbed him of power during the season.
Navarro: His coming into spring training '07 overweight and the conversation Maddon had with him about coming in for the '08 season in shape, so he can become a team leader.
Bartlett: Almost soley responsible for a major reduction in runs scored against TB.
Red Sox
ORRtiz--Hurt wrist, doesn't trust hands to be there, starting swing early.
It seems as if they passed out a set of talking points for each player during a production meeting before the series started. The announcers know nothing more about the teams than what's on that sheet. They have repeated the same stories for each player every time they've come to the plate; in every single game. They need more notes. Or to read the paper to pick up new things to discuss about players.
Caray and Martinez are horrible. They've made Mrs. noternie do the unthinkable: express that she's looking forward to the World Series being on Fox, where Joe Buck and Tim McCarver will call the games.
Darling, I think, has been very good. I've never heard him before and I've been impressed with how well he puts the game into an understandable, instructive and entertaining context.
Martinez is not imaginative enough to use his years in the game to talk about what he's seeing in front of him.
Caray just doesn't seem to know that much about baseball. He exaggerates the importance of plays and the ability of players during routine plays. And his game calling is way too loaded with cliches.
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