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LisaM

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2. He was a terrible broadcaster.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:46 AM
Mar 2025

I give the Tigers some props for keeping him on while he had Parkinson's, but he didn't ever seem to be paying attention to the game at hand. I remember once in about the sixth or seventh inning he said, "the Tigers haven't had any traffic on the base paths" and the main guy had to correct him. "The Tigers have had the bases loaded the last three innings". Every game he did was like that. He added nothing to the broadcast.

It's true that no broadcaster seems to want to describe the action in the field or court anymore, in favor of pointless stats (hockey being an exception, though stupid stats are starting to creep in there, too). But Gibson was about the worst there was, with Jack Morris being a close runner up.

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