I thought AROD would make it great again, but it's very dull and vanilla. Mendoza is worthless and Vasgergin has been underperforming. Mendoza needs to just shut up and AROD needs to talk more..
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ARod is awful. He seems to work so hard to find something to say... Â
very unnatural given how much he knows about the game. He could use Marty Glickman (RIP) to teach him how to do that job.
I think it's because of the team he has in the booth. He needs a really good play by play guy who feeds him intros into his excellent insights. Instead with this group it's very much like you said, he's working too hard to find shit to say and it ends up being a chatter fest.
I know a three person booth is tough but seriously, they don't need to fill every damn second with chatter and miss the actual stuff happening in the game in order to keep their conversations going. Eg, never questioned Frazier's check swing call before his HR. If they would've, maybe we would've gotten another look. Instead they had to keep their dumb conversation going and missed a huge point in the game.
On the pregame and post game shows. As a commentator in game he’s awful. Struggles to from stories and sentences. Stumbles and
Bumbles through at bats it’s really painful. Jessica Mendoza is sickening. To listen to her talk hitting mechanics is just pitiful and ridiculous. Matt is a great at what he does he’s just pinned between 2 terrible people.
Put me in the camp that thinks he's horrible. Such an insightful Bautista analysis:
"He's got a lot left in the tank".
"He's 37 and has the worst swing/miss rate in baseball".
"I still think he's got a little left in the tank".
outside of Mary Carillo and Doris Burke that female sportscasters are forced on audiences without being competent enough to be listenable.
Mendoza is terrible every game she's on. To the point I want to change the channel just because of her.
About the only two people I can say that about are her and Suzy Waldmann. I'll gladly take the droning from Steve Tasker over them anyday.
I take them on a case by case basis. Waldman and Mendoza are awful for exactly what you mentioned. Waldman is particularly bad because she thinks just by spewing insider human interest crap all game and some basic statistics that thats her job. As I said in the other thread When I wanted non stop human interest crap I tuned into Charles Kuralt on CBS news. I'd rather listen to Coney and Leiter explaining pitching to me.
It’s the entire broadcast. It’s abysmal. They have way too much going on that takes away from the reason that people are actually watching, THE DAMN GAME. One example that drove me particularly insane was Gleyber Torres’ first AB. They actually had a split screen so that they could show Todd Frazier interviewing pre game. It lasted the entire AB. Why would they think a Gleyber Torres AB was an appropriate time to fill us in on Todd Frazier? That crap needs to be shown on the pre game show, not when one of the leagues rising stars is up at the plate
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I thought he was terrific and delightful and charming on fs1 pregame but he's awful on Sunday night baseball I agree
And I LOVE AROD , always have
I think it's because of the team he has in the booth. He needs a really good play by play guy who feeds him intros into his excellent insights. Instead with this group it's very much like you said, he's working too hard to find shit to say and it ends up being a chatter fest.
I know a three person booth is tough but seriously, they don't need to fill every damn second with chatter and miss the actual stuff happening in the game in order to keep their conversations going. Eg, never questioned Frazier's check swing call before his HR. If they would've, maybe we would've gotten another look. Instead they had to keep their dumb conversation going and missed a huge point in the game.
Bumbles through at bats it’s really painful. Jessica Mendoza is sickening. To listen to her talk hitting mechanics is just pitiful and ridiculous. Matt is a great at what he does he’s just pinned between 2 terrible people.
That's not an anti-Yankees thing, or even anti-ARod. Just the feeling I get listening to him/watching him.
Mendoza is terrible every game she's on. To the point I want to change the channel just because of her.
About the only two people I can say that about are her and Suzy Waldmann. I'll gladly take the droning from Steve Tasker over them anyday.
"He's got a lot left in the tank".
"He's 37 and has the worst swing/miss rate in baseball".
"I still think he's got a little left in the tank".
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Mendoza is terrible every game she's on. To the point I want to change the channel just because of her.
About the only two people I can say that about are her and Suzy Waldmann. I'll gladly take the droning from Steve Tasker over them anyday.
I take them on a case by case basis. Waldman and Mendoza are awful for exactly what you mentioned. Waldman is particularly bad because she thinks just by spewing insider human interest crap all game and some basic statistics that thats her job. As I said in the other thread When I wanted non stop human interest crap I tuned into Charles Kuralt on CBS news. I'd rather listen to Coney and Leiter explaining pitching to me.
Mendoza is terrible every game she's on. To the point I want to change the channel just because of her.
About the only two people I can say that about are her and Suzy Waldmann. I'll gladly take the droning from Steve Tasker over them anyday.
Waldmann's voice is like nails on a freakin' chalkboard!
I am getting tired of watching these games in mute. As I have said before, I would pay extra just to listen to only the crowd noise.
Mic drop.