Monday, March 10, 2008

Announcer Dumbness I

We're going to kick off a new feature here, "Announcer Dumbness." All of these will contain actual quotes from actual announcers, and most of these will be so dumb as to require little or no comment. Today, overheard on a Mets spring training broadcast (I should note that the Mets announcers are overall among the best, but even they are not immune to ADD (Announcer Dumbness Disease)):
Ralph Kiner (apparently visiting out of retirement): You know, the
thing about [Pedro] Martinez is that his record is better than Sandy Koufax's,
and that's a pretty strong statement right there.

Gary Cohen: Well, especially considering the era that he pitched in, some
of the most offensive-oriented years in baseball history.

Kiner: the steroid era, is what you're saying.

Gary Cohen: Okay.... I'll accept that (laughing neverously).

Sigh. It's a matter of very simple logic that the "offensive era" did not help Pedro's record (assuming, as I think we reasonably can, that he's talking about win-loss record). The lineups on Pedro's teams were just as much a part of that era as his opponents. Is Cohen actually saying that the Red Sox and (snicker snicker) the Mets were not on 'roids even as all their opponents were?

Also, this has nothing to do with announcer dumbness really, but later in the broadcast, Cohen, reading off a card, plugged: "Tune into Jets Nation this week, to find out everything that is going on with Gang Green..."

Does the SNY channell realize just how exactly -- I mean, exactly -- "Gang Green" sounds like "gangrene"?? How did no one at the office pick up on this?

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