I like Hawthorne's emotion also, but I can't watch the games and I listen to them on the radio, intermittently while I'm working, and never can figure out what's happening. When he gives the score, for example, he doesn't say who's winning. That doesn't help me out at all. However,the last several baseball games I listened to were a lot better in that regard. It's not just Hawthorne...it's Moreau and the producer who should be reminding him to update.
Hawthorne's biggest problem is that he doesn't wait for the play to happen before he announces it. He tries to predict the outcome.
I will never understand the Hawthorne bashing that goes on on this board. Harry Carey butchered names all the time, but the Cub's broadcasts haven't been the same since. Between Les' speaking and Hawthorne, nobody can please some fans.:lol:
yep, we really can't just point out hawthorne's flaws without pointing the finger at the entire broadcast team. LSU still has him as "the voice" because of his emotion, accuracy be damned. however, they need to do a better job producing and managing the broadcasts. sometimes they take it for granted that people aren't sitting there, glued to the radio, and they need to remember to give updates (score, quarter, time remaining) fairly regularly. but i have to admit that it gets aggravating hearing a "negative" score thirty million times in five minutes. though, to be completely honest, i think they do a fine job giving the score, etc about every fifteen minutes of airtime. i listen to the same games everyone else does and i always catch the score and other pertinent information within an acceptable amount of time.
One difference there Fish. I got blasted on here for criticizing Les' public speaking because Les doesn't get paid to speak. Hawthorne gets paid to talk. And as far as Harry Caray goes, that was the Cubs' problem.
I agree - I'm going to miss not being able to use the DVR to synch up with the radio broadcast this year. No DVR...:dis: The voices of Hawthorne and Moreau on a Saturday are like jambalaya and chicken andouille gumbo to me.
Harry Carey was an ICON. Doesn't matter if you like the Cubs...Harry Carey WAS the Cubs. Now, Hawthorne is NOT LSU, but some of his calls over the years are legendary...and I don't even wanna think of LSU football on the radio with someone else's voice.
And you got "blasted" because you came in as a new poster and pretty much had nothing positive to say. Since, you've grown on me...but lay off the Cubs, pal.
