MLB Power Rankings: Joe Buck and Baseball's 15 Most Hated Broadcasters
For the most part, it is great when you can watch your favorite team's home broadcast. You know the announcers and for the most part, you enjoy listening to them.
Occasionally, you have to watch the away broadcast, or the game is on ESPN, and you hear announcers that you can't stand.
The announcers are part of the experience of watching a baseball game, and if you have a bad announcer, it can completely ruin it.
15) Daron Sutton
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Sutton shows a lot of support for the Diamondbacks players. However, he rips on any opposing players. So much for providing an objective view of the game.
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14) Michael Kay
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Being associated with the Yankees will not make many people well-liked among baseball fans. However, even the Yankees own fan base has some issues with Kay.
He has made a bunch of mistakes on air. In 2010, he opened a broadcast by welcoming fans to the Baltimore. The only problem was that the Yankees were playing the Red Sox.
13) Rick Sutcliffe
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The former pitcher was originally a broadcaster for the San Diego Padres before moving to ESPN. After his stint with the Padres, he was invited back into the their booth for part of a game.
Sutcliffe was drunk during the appearance and used poor judgment. On top of that, his commentary does not provide much to the game.
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12) Gary Thorne
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Gary Thorne is a great hockey announcer. He is also the play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles. If you listen to one of their broadcasts, it is clear that Thorne should have stuck with hockey.
Part of the problem is that many baseball fans immediately associate Thorne with his great hockey calls, which takes away from the game he calls.
11) Tim McCarver
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McCarver is Joe Buck's partner in the FOX booth. Baseball fans dread having their team's game broadcast on FOX, because it means that they will have to listen to both Buck and McCarver.
At this point, it is better to put the television on mute and listen to the game on the radio.
10) Rob Dibble
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Listening to a Nationals broadcast was an interesting experience. Dibble is another one of those announcers who is a homer. The problem is that he also rips on the home team when they perform poorly. It seems as if he can't make up his mind.
Dibble is another example of why former players don't necessarily make the best announcers.
9) DeWayne Staats
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There seems to be little cohesion in the Rays broadcast booth. Staats just isn't interesting to listen to and does not do a great job calling games.
It seems as if Staats just likes to keep talking and talking. When he does make a good point, he will stay on it for way longer than he needs to.
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8) Jeff Brantley
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Brantley is another player who made a transition into the broadcasting booth. This was a rough transition for Reds fans.
Brantley seems to want to talk about everything but the game at hand. He constantly seems to try to change the topic. In addition, when he does talk about baseball, he sounds very condescending.
7) John Sterling
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Sterling is the second Yankees announcer to make the list. There are some fans that love him, but there are many more who can't stand him. He is known for the the "A-Bomb from A-Rod" and "Text-Message" home run calls.
In addition, Sterling has a tendency to call balls home runs before they actually leave the park, which leads to some embarrassing moments when the ball is caught at the wall.
6) Chip Caray
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A large part of the reason that Caray was able to get the Braves job is because of his famous grandfather. Unfortunately for Braves fans, Chip did not get the broadcasting skills that Harry Caray had.
Caray is another announcer who is a big homer. This makes games incredibly difficult to listen to unless you are a Braves fan.
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5) Jon Miller
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Miller is part of what was likely the worst broadcast booth in baseball. Listening him and Joe Morgan call games on ESPN was incredibly difficult to listen to.
Miller no longer announces for ESPN, and is the play-by-play man for the Giants.
4) Ken "Hawk" Harrelson
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There is no bigger homer among baseball announcers than Hawk Harrelson. He even calls the Sox the "good guys" during games.
In addition, he roots for his team during the games, trying to will bloopers to drop in.
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3) Joe Buck
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Buck is another announcer that has great roots. The problem is that Jack Buck's announcing abilities were not passed on to his son.
Listening to Buck call games on FOX is unbearable. Buck's voice is hard to listen to, and he does not do much better announcing baseball games than he does announcing football games.
2) Suzyn Waldman
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This video sums up exactly why Suzyn Waldman, one of the Yankees radio announcers, is amongst the worst in baseball.
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1) Joe Morgan
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Morgan's poor analysis of baseball games and off-topic discussions led to the creation of firejoemorgan.com. No other play-by-play announcer has generated so much hate from fans.
Fans have finally gotten their wish as Morgan did not return to the ESPN booth after his contract ended this past off-season. He is now working in the Reds front office.
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