Red's announcers

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(04-23-2019, 04:06 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: The Reds announcers are awesome. Seriously.

Thom Brennaman is solid. He's on National TV in multiple sports for a reason, he's very good.

Chris Welsh may be the best analyst I may have ever heard. He does naturally what Tim McCarver tried to force, teaching the game of baseball. Big difference between the two, Welsh doesn't talk like the listener is a 5 year old sitting down for his first game of baseball. Needs to work on that creepy intro/pre-game smile, though.

Jim Day is one of the very few sideline reporters that actually contributes to the broadcast. 95% of them suck and read off of a card when it's their cue. Jim Day also fills in as play by play on the radio and TV without really missing a beat. It would suck to lose him on TV, but he would get my vote of the current team to replace Marty.

Marty Brennaman is in the HOF and not much more needs to be said. His on air honesty will indeed be a thing of the past when he retires. Very few people can speak out like him and still keep their job.

Jeff Brantley is hilarious, always keeps me chuckling and is one of the rare former players that can do the play by play roll(Pat Summerall, Ray Bentley, Charles Davis). I've been in broadcasting off and on for almost 30 years now and I can tell you that play by play is a difficult skill to learn. It's nowhere near as easy as people think it is.

Don't know enough about Graves and Jeff Porcorro(sp?) is good when he fills in for Jim Day but that's all I know about him.

Oh my McCarver was awful ! Has an answer for everything just like Dan Fouts in football. " well you see the wind was blowing NE to SW across the field and the earth is spinning the opposite direction, the catcher flashed the fastball sign but the pitcher threw a slider so the torque on the ball" Tim STFU !