The Emotional Impact of Iconic Sports Broadcasters

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00:00you have no idea how much I looked up to him and how great I thought he was. I listened to hours of

00:06his play-by-play calls last night and this morning and I was, you know, I was bawling. I was gushing

00:14tears and I was blowing my nose and I was a mess because the memories, the five Stanley Cups,

00:20the lean years when they sucked and he was doing all his schtick and they were horrible and had

00:24no players and then when they got Lemieux forward and had Lemieux and Jagger and all the Stanley Cup

00:29runs in Crosby, it really is a huge loss I think for hockey. Yeah, it's too bad. Condolences to his

00:37family. I was talking about this a couple of weeks ago actually when I was tuning in to a game that

00:44modern broadcasters are so bland. I'm gonna say bland. They don't have personalities,

00:53right? Nobody has a, no one really has a personality anymore during broadcast. You have a

01:00few old school baseball guys left. There's a few hockey and now we have one less. That's, you know,

01:05when I look at that, I'm like, yeah, you know, he'll just get end up getting replaced by some

01:09clone type that, you know, they don't want to, they want to bring in yes men, they want to bring

01:14in just, you know, people are going to keep it straight, keep it with the game. Yeah, they don't

01:19have a personality like represents the city, represents the team. Might not be perfect off

01:25the ice, right? But, you know, and listen, you know what a good example is, bro? Joe Davis,

01:32the guy, he's like the new Joe Buck. Joe Davis, like he gets big NFL assignments now. He's the

01:38Dodgers guy. He replaced Vin Scully, all right? It's so boring, dude. Dude, exactly, bro. Like,

01:45do you, like, you see this guy and he's like, welcome to Chavez ravine. It's like,

01:51like some at Syracuse university Scott or something, the professor would be like,

01:56he has a perfect voice. Look at his face. He's made to be a broadcaster. They teach up there.

02:02They teach people how to be boring and be like everybody else. And not one fan ever says,

02:08man, I'd like to go have a beer with Joe Davis after a Dodger game, right? You don't know.

02:12No one ever thinks that thinks, man, I'd like to meet that guy and really like, you know,

02:15sit down like you said, sit down with Vin Scully. Yeah. Sit down and like, man, imagine like talking,

02:21sitting down for dinner. Like you just look, uh, dude, I had the opportunity. Scott, Harry Callas

02:27with the, uh, the Philadelphia Phillies, NFL Phil, same thing. He walked into the room and

02:32was like, Whoa, that's freaking Harry cows, man. Nice. This guy sat down. I asked him,

02:38man, can you do the voice of the NFL film? I said, can you do the frozen thunder a bit?

02:45You did on NFL films, right? Just eat. He goes, give me a second here. He has a little shot,

02:49a little sip of beer. And the frozen thunder, he went into it. It was like, wow, just like

02:55larger than life. Like you said, like these broadcasts, they've been around for the good

02:59days, the bad days, the early days of the team, seen the ups and the downs now it's just boring.

03:05And I just replaced, like I said, I've been talking about this and there's big time jobs

03:10and stuff. Look at the Yankees, bro. I mean, like they just roll anybody in now on a daily

03:15basis with their broadcasts. Like I think they got it right with Dave Sims. I think he'll save

03:21the Yankees, uh, play by play booth. He's, he's a guy that everybody in New York likes and loves

03:27and respects. And I, you know, I thought Sterling, he's certainly a character, but I thought he was

03:32senile at the end. But just remember, like, you know, it was just sort of Ken Singleton. You had

03:37guys. Oh God. Yeah. He was morphine. You had guys that knew the game that were the game that were

03:46part of the fabric of it. Like I grew up with the expo's, you know, the color analyst with the

03:51expo. And so what Scott, when I grew up, Duke Snyder, you imagine, so I'm growing up listening

03:57to Duke Snyder talk about baseball, right. Played for the Montreal Royals, right. He had a connection

04:02to Montreal. So it was like, I grew up listening to Duke Snyder. Then it was Ken Singleton. They

04:06had Phil Rizzuto here. Yeah. It's like now, now welcome to Joe Davis. And, uh, you know what I

04:14mean, bro? It's so awesome. I went on today in Pittsburgh and I said it right on the air. I said,

04:21ever since he stopped calling games, they have one after the next failed to put anyone in there

04:28that doesn't suck balls. I mean, they are so awful that I said, I don't tell him I said so.

04:34And I'll see you in the alley. I said, you all suck. You're all boring. You're all vanilla.

04:40You're all milk toast. And it's just torture listening to you. Uh, call penguin games. I

04:45told Mario to his face. I said, you know, I'm all, but at least I'm crazy. Bring me back. I'll call

04:50it a game for nothing.

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