Eric over at Off Wing Opinion asks his readers “which sports television personality would you most like to see thrown off the air”? My answers should be no surprise to anyone who’s read this blog for any length of time: Sean Salisbury, Stephen A. Smith, and just about everyone who currently on “SportsCenter,” “Baseball Tonight,” “NBA Fastbreak,” “Around the Horn,” or any Fox Sports Net show.
I was surprised by lots of the answers from Eric’s generally savvy commenters: lots of votes for Chris Berman, Bob Costas, and Stuart Scott, in addition to probably the most hated sports commentator on Earth right now (that’d be Stephen A.- last Friday, when I got off work early and thus was able to watch PTI for the first time in months, you can imagine my horror when I discovered “Screamin’ A” was sitting in for the vacationing Michael Wilbon).
Still, I have trouble agreeing with the Berman-bashing for one reason: I think that with sportscasters, if it’s someone whose voice I’ve been hearing my entire life, I’ll never get sick of them, no matter how far past their prime they get. Which is why you’ll never hear me complain about Costas, Berman, Al Michaels, Vin Scully, Marv Albert, John Madden, or the Twins’ John Gordon and Herb Carneal. It’s why I shed tears when Jack Buck died, but want to throw things at Joe Buck. Hell, I’ll even give Stuart Scott a pass, despite his nefarious influence on every other SC anchor who has followed him.
So everyday Gordo and Dazzle man have on their broadcast of Twins, an "email question that they answer"
I submitted "Gordo, when and how did you get the phrase 'touch 'em all'" I want to know if anyone knows the history behind this phrase, and if Gordo is the first broadcaster to use this phrase, or if not who did he steal it from?
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff S. at July 4, 2004 01:06 AMGordo isn't the first. I'm pretty sure Halsey Hall (old Twins broadcaster) used it before Gordy, but I don't know if he was the first, either.
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