Jason Benetti = Mario Impemba

[NorthWoods]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

I'm not as big of fan of DD's as I used to be. There are a couple things he's gotten into the habit of that sort of grate on me. One is how he'll spend time telling you how great a guy (particularly a pitcher) is or has been while he's being shelled. What is the point of that? It has pretty much zero relevance to the call of the game to tell me that last year the guy's ERA against lefties was only 2.3 or that his control is 'usually' great after he's walked two. It's basically apologizing for poor performance and that's not something I care to have the PBP guy doing. "He's having a bad day" is fine and leave it at that.

People get old and soft.   

At least my kids accuse me of that.  e.g:how I treat my grandchildren compared to how I treated them.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, NorthWoods said:

People get old and soft.   

At least my kids accuse me of that.  e.g:how I treat my grandchildren compared to how I treated them.

But aren't you supposed to treat your grandkids that way. I thought it was part of the jib description.

(But then, my grandson is 600 plus miles away)

[Tiger337]

6 hours ago, NorthWoods said:

People get old and soft.   

At least my kids accuse me of that.  e.g:how I treat my grandchildren compared to how I treated them.

I think grand parents being soft with children is a requirement. 

[Motor City Sonics]

I liked Rod & Mario.     I don't care that they weren't buddies.   I don't care that one guy shoved a chair at the other and then shoved him.   That happens.   I've been in media for 40 years and there are times when you work with people that you don't click with, but the work is still good.  I knew one guy who literally body slammed another (after he gave his real cell phone number out on the air).   They both got suspended a week.   When they came back to work they were fine with each other.   They had their blow up and it was over.   

 

[Tiger337]

I liked Allen so much, I used to switch the White Sox feed every time they played them.  

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

I liked Rod & Mario.     I don't care that they weren't buddies.   I don't care that one guy shoved a chair at the other and then shoved him.   That happens.   I've been in media for 40 years and there are times when you work with people that you don't click with, but the work is still good.  I knew one guy who literally body slammed another (after he gave his real cell phone number out on the air).   They both got suspended a week.   When they came back to work they were fine with each other.   They had their blow up and it was over.   

 

The sad thing is, Mario could have been better with someone else. On a few occasions when he worked with someone else the difference was obvious, he was much more personable and engaged with the other person in the booth and it was a better broadcast. Rod could do color, but Mario was right about that too - too often he hadn't done any homework and he would go whole games adding nothing but his cutesy signature lines.

Tiger's have only themselves to blame, they should have broken them up years before it fell apart. Sure you don't have to like someone to work with them, but when it reaches where one detests the other to the point he can't be his best self professionally it's no good to keep forcing it.

The interlude with Shep was regrettable, but they've landed on their feet with Benetti, for as long as he stays.

Edited 1 minute ago by gehringer_2