I can still remember that goofy bastard crying afterwards and the damn announcer crowing Chester Marcol over and over.

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Cone-treras. Adam Ea-Ton. I can't stand him. Sing songy doosh. I hate the Cub.

I am a Cub fan but I think he is overrated. He is the Harold Baines of baseball radio PBP guys.

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Drysdale / Hawk was 1982 - 85.....I was just hitting the teen years where I wasn't watching much baseball.

That pairing was pretty fantastic. Drysdale as PBP really underrated.

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It used to be that all the home games were blacked out whether the game sold out or not. The famous example is Giants fans having to pick up the home games off the Hartford-New Haven CBS affiliate. The NFL didn't realize this was stupid until the early '70s.


I think the endzone stands that cut off the end of the seating bowl came in from Wrigley, so it always would have been around 65-66k for the Bears. Maybe more for the Chicago Cardinals.

EDIT: upon looking it up, the last year of universal home-game blackouts was 1972. That's a long time.

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good therapy. i just watched the video and like you said, it was chester marcol, chester marcol and chester marcol. that damn announcer was lindsey nelson. things evened out, just a bit...a few months later, that 1980 thanksgiving was the dave williams overtime kick-off return winner.

Was that the same year as the glorious 61-7 game?

But we won't mention the Bubba Baker game.

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That's a good one. Forgot about them.

Swirsky is very good.
Still....Mac imitating Swirsky is even better.

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i believe the sox went to ontv or whatever it was called, at that time. not as many saw and heard the tv sox broadcasts. prior, channel 44 was grainy, but harry and piersall were can't miss tv.

i agree, drysdale was a very good broadcaster. i'm thinking his chicago footprint was small, due to the sox pay tv. you're also correct about losing total interest in sports by the teen years..mine occurred around 1980, stopped buying baseball cards. by 1981, girls mattered, not the neil armstrong show at 1100 on sundays.

I believe in the three Bear-Packer games before the 61-7 game, the Bears offense scored zero touchdowns and had one touchdown total. Then they score 9 in one game.

I happened to come upon a video from a '81 game between the Sox and Angels. It was only about 24 minutes but Harry and Jimmy were ornery. They criticized both teams, managers, umpires TV crew, it was quite entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dstZo6tMYQU

Had a long period in my life as a kid where we were too broke for cable, so took in a lot of play by play on my AM clock radio.

The old school Cubs radio had a traditional baseball vibe with Lloyd and Boudreau, they really didn't need a goof like Zaidman fake laughing in the background, just gave you a picture of while knowing when to jump in with a bit of energy in key points, this skill is severely lacking with the Syracuse guys that do play by play these days. The current Cubs TV broadcast pales in comparison to any of old WGN stuff, it's unlistenable at this point, usually just turn down the sound.

Loved Foley in his prime, he was at his best doing games with Dale where again, they knew when to raise the level during key points in games, Foley would raise his cadence and change inflection at the end of games to give you a feel for frantic goal mouth scrambles, do not find that anymore as they all copy the Tennessee Tuxedo (Mike Emerick) style of pumping up average US born players and missing key momentum shifts in games. Catch local play by play stuff on NHL Network and all US local broadcast suffer from the same issue, the TSN stuff is far better as they are not afraid to call out players.

Larrivee was way better than Joniak, odd to see an East Coast Emerson College guy working rural Wisconsin people with his "dagger" catchphrase. Remember very well the days where the Bears were always Ryan and Morris, Ryan always seemed disinterested, but in his defense the Bears sucked until in the early 1980s, Payton was all they had to talk about.

Bulls will always be Red Kerr and Durham, Stacey King basically copies Red Kerr, and it makes him tolerable, do like Amin as well.

Was quite young when Harry did Sox, but did catch Hawk and Drysdale, agree they were the best the Sox have every had.

1. Duane Dow
2. Julie DiCaro
3. Jim Rose
4. Howard Sudberry
5. Josh Lewin

I'm right with you.

Edit: And I'll add Vince Lloyd and Lou Boudreau.

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Duane is the man!

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None of the others in that list are men.

Josh Lewin? What the fuck dude?

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