3. New York Mets: 2.97
-Gary Cohen (play by play)
-Ron Darling (analyst)
-Keith Hernandez (analyst)
Previous rankings: 4 (2014), 4 (2016), 3 (2017), 3 (2018)
Previous grades: 2.99 (2014), 3.06 (2016), 2.92 (2017), 3.12 (2018)
Most popular grade: A (54.91% of votes)
Analysis: The Mets just can’t crack the top two. They’ve finished in third for the third-straight year, despite finishing with the highest overall percentage of A votes of any team this year. However, that was balanced out by the third-lowest percentage of B votes and the second-lowest percentage of C votes. That strong share of A votes wasn’t enough to edge out the #2 team, who received a similar share of A votes, but a much higher cut of B votes.
6. New York Yankees: 2.26
-Michael Kay (play by play)
-Ryan Ruocco (play by play)
-David Cone (analyst)
-John Flaherty (analyst)
-Paul O’Neill (analyst)
-Ken Singleton (analyst)
Previous rankings: 25 (2014), 27 (2016), 2 (2017), 12 (2018)
Previous grades: 1.93 (2014), 1.95 (2016), 3.00 (2017), 2.53 (2018)
Most popular grade: A (31.89% of votes)
Analysis: The Yankees were one of two teams (along with the Dodgers) to receive at least 3,000 votes (which is not a surprise), and because they’re the Yankees, they saw huge spikes in both their A and F grades. The huge cut of A votes was balanced out by 23.01% of their votes coming in as an F, if only because they’re the Yankees. Much like last year, when they ranked 12th, their grade seems right and not too extreme like in 2016 or 2017.
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Ruocco - decent
Cone - awesome
O'Neill - very good
Flaherty - sucks
Singleton - great
Didn't click the link to see who #1 and #2 are, but I wouldn't have been shocked if they were #1.
Such a solid group, and very likable and considering all things Mets it's sort of amazing they haven't messed it up somehow yet.
Ruocco - decent
Cone - awesome
O'Neill - very good
Flaherty - sucks
Singleton - great
The week where Ruocco and Russo filled in for Kay and Sterling was a godsend. I'm hoping that Ruocco gets more airtime even when Kay comes back.
Ruocco - decent
Cone - awesome
O'Neill - very good
Flaherty - sucks
Singleton - great
Ruocco has done a very nice job filling in for him.
Cone is fantastic... he's a must listen any time he's in the booth. Excellent insight - particularly regarding pitching.
Paul is more comic relief than anything, but I like when he's in there.
Love Singleton. Wish he was more than just part-time now. Kenny is low key very funny and he's a great listen.
Can't stand Flaherty.
The Mets' booth when both Keith and Ron are in it is great. Cohen's voice I always found to be fairly grating... but he does know his stuff and the insight provided by the other two makes for a really good group. Can't argue with where they're ranked.
Ruocco - decent
Cone - awesome
O'Neill - very good
Flaherty - sucks
Singleton - great
Flaherty is hit or miss. He used to be better. This year he's been awful.
And I also used to hate O'Neill as a broadcaster, but this year, he's gotten a lot better. He clearly knows the game well.
My favorite is when they have Singleton on pbp and Coney doing analysis. If they throw in O'Neill that'd be a fun time.
listened to them a little against the Mets, yeah, not great.
Yanks TV team is good - Kay is a doofus, but I don’t hate him as much as some, and Singleton, Cone and O’Neill are great.
Mets Nats game earlier this year and I was shocked how down right awful he was and it wasn't just being a homer which I could deal with - even from a rival team, his speech pattern, voice, word choice, all awful.
Probably a nice guy, should find a different role.
I literally want to jam jagged glass up my rectum instead of listening to another HR call by that booth
Mets Nats game earlier this year and I was shocked how down right awful he was and it wasn't just being a homer which I could deal with - even from a rival team, his speech pattern, voice, word choice, all awful.
Probably a nice guy, should find a different role.
Most games I watch I have them on mute. He’s horrible
Keith and Darling are top notch. I find Cohen to be awful though. I'd put Keith against anyone as far as color guys go.
Ruocco - decent
Cone - awesome
O'Neill - very good
Flaherty - sucks
Singleton - great
I agree with you almost completely, aside from Flash.
I'm neutral towards him/think he is ok.
What is the problem with him?
Keith and Darling are top notch. I find Cohen to be awful though. I'd put Keith against anyone as far as color guys go.
You don't get Met games in NEPA?
Guess that is Bucco country.
I've been listening to Kuip all the way back to 1986 when he did some games on a pay per game service called Giants Vision when I lived out in SF. Love him and Krukow.
I haven't even heard every broadcast team in the league and still feel extremely confident in this being correct.
The Nationals team is absolutely horrible. Bar none the worst I've heard.
I don't see how F.P. still has a job. Just brutal to listen to that idiot. And he thinks he's so clever by saying "there goes the no-hitter" anytime the Nationals get a hit.
Maybe MASN wants the announcers to suck b/c MASN is owned by Peter Angelos.
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The Nationals booth sounds like a college broadcast course. It's horrible.
I don't see how F.P. still has a job. Just brutal to listen to that idiot. And he thinks he's so clever by saying "there goes the no-hitter" anytime the Nationals get a hit.
Maybe MASN wants the announcers to suck b/c MASN is owned by Peter Angelos.
Yup. So, so bad.
I know - and I'd never heard of him until he started calling the games. I suppose they hired him b/c he played for the Expos. But it's not as if he had a distinguished career. OPS of .716 for his career, woof.
Here's an article about why the team sucks so bad, about last year's poll which predicted they'd finish last this year:
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I literally want to jam jagged glass up my rectum instead of listening to another HR call by that booth
Who votes on these things? The local fans? What a dumb way to "judge" local broadcast teams. Kay is such a flukey and annoying listen.
Keith and Darling are top notch. I find Cohen to be awful though. I'd put Keith against anyone as far as color guys go.
Out of curiosity why do you say that about Cohen? I’ve always liked him but this year I’ve noticed he’s made lots of errors, to the tune of almost one every other game it seems. And he’s had a tendency this year to overreact on fly balls, some of which don’t even make the warning track. To me he’s definitely slipped this year.
Keith is easily my favorite. It’s a shame he only got the one year with the Fox postseason studio team. He was terrific in that setting.
The Mets guys are great although I'd put Cohen FAR below Keith and Ron.
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in the minority on this one, but Gary Cohen is the worst. I have MLB extra innings and watch a lot of random games during the year, I'd put Cohen in the bottom 5 for play by play guys.
Keith and Darling are top notch. I find Cohen to be awful though. I'd put Keith against anyone as far as color guys go.
Out of curiosity why do you say that about Cohen? I’ve always liked him but this year I’ve noticed he’s made lots of errors, to the tune of almost one every other game it seems. And he’s had a tendency this year to overreact on fly balls, some of which don’t even make the warning track. To me he’s definitely slipped this year.
Keith is easily my favorite. It’s a shame he only got the one year with the Fox postseason studio team. He was terrific in that setting.
As a Mets fan, I'm not sure if that's right. Not that Gary never makes mistakes, but they talk daily about how the ball, even off the barrel or looking like bloop, goes out. Obv in context of juiced balls
And IMO since the break there's a few looking like they'd go out based on the 1st half but didn't. Iirc at least JD & Conforto had a few recently, even I thought those might go but died at the WT. It's become hard to tell
Outside of that, I'm no expert so maybe there's more but I haven't caught anything egregious or repeat for my part
+1 from me, they are great...good info, good backstories, not too tangential (tho it's baseball), relatively unbiased (w/ just enough homerism), decent entertainment. Also like Gelbs stuff and well Justine (sigh). Good stuff
Agree. No life with Apple at all. I take back what I said about Cohen. And we get Apple all week.
Ruocco - decent
Cone - awesome
O'Neill - very good
Flaherty - sucks
Singleton - great
Arbitrary and non-sensical hot take.
Not everything you disgree with is a "hot take". Some things are simply a difference of opinion.