1. Harry
2. Red Kerr
3. Hawk
4. Stone
5. Hughes
6. King
7. Chip
8. Farmer
9. Joniak
10.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

1. John Rooney
2. Pat Foley
3. Wayne Larivee
4. Hawk
5. Pat Hughes
6. Jason Bennetti
7. Ed Farmer
8. Steve Stone
9. Dale Tallon
10. Joniak

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Hard to group PBP and color analysts in the same category. In terms of quality PBP, Wayne Larivee and Pat Foley were top tier. I also think John Rooney was very good.

Hawk and Harry are guys that you like with your team but as a fan of the other team....hell no. As a yoot, I didn't get the Sox games way up in Antioch so all I had was Jack Brickhouse. I'm sure the golden days of Harry and Piersall were great, but they weren't on /available up north. I loved Hawk and Wimpy but again....Hawk was only enjoyable if you were a Sox fan. When Harry got to the Cubs....I didn't like him....that's just me and I know I'm in the minority.

Color Analyst...vintage Steve Stone with Harry was as good as you could hope for. I haven't cared for him with the Sox.

Joniac is fine. I'm not a big basketball guy but Neal Funk as PBP was very good.

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Been catching Wayne on Packers’ radio broadcasts.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Wayne was excluded from my list because of his Packers love

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Harry/Jimmy
Jim Durham
Wayne Larrive
Hawk
Pat Foley

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Lloyd Petit
Jim West


ask your dad

1. Hawk and Wimpy
2. Harry and Jimmy
3. Pat Foley (especially with Tallon)
4. Steve Stone


1086: Tom Thayer

all I got

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Pat Foley
Pat Hughes
John Wiedeman
Wayne Larrivee
Ron Santo

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i was a big fan of kenny stern for fire games back in the day.

Does Neil Funk qualify? His narration of the Paxson three against the Suns was epic.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

PBP:
Jim Durham
Harry Caray with the White Sox
John Wiedeman
Jack Brickhouse (for when I was a kid, I didn't know any better)
The last 4-5 years of Ed Farmer, driving home from my parents' house many weekend evenings.

Analysis:
Steve Stone
Troy Murray
I didn't watch enough hockey on TV during the Dale Tallon era

Postgame:
Doug Buffone

Honorable Mention:
Floyd Brown on IHSA Basketball Tournament pre/half/post.

10pm Sportscasts:
Bruce Roberts
Johnny Morris
Mark Giangreco
(We weren't a WLS family until Ron Magers went there, so no Weigel)

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Johnny Morris on bears games in my youth was great. For you kids out there, the nfc was on CBS and the non national games were broadcast by the same people for the entire season. It was like a local broadcast every week

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

When there weren’t blackouts and Venture had to buy 3500 tickets.

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https://twitter.com/DrKenCast

Tim Ryan on PBP, right?

When Johnny cut back a bit, Jiggs did the NFL broadcasts for a couple of years when he was doing weekend sports on Channel 2.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

CBS did a similar thing to Johnny Morris always working the Bears games years later where they always had Steve Tasker doing Bills games. Only the Bills had a dedicated announce team. Also, they weren't very good, so I suppose it was easy.

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Hey, they stomped the Saints that one game!

@Chet: Yeah, Tim Ryan. I was gonna mention him above.

My dad supposedly had an altercation with Johnny Morris once, and my mom detested him because he wasn't Catholic, so I wasn't a huge fan. But we were a Channel Two news family, so I got my Morris fix.

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Surprised there is no love for Tom Paciorek. Hawk always got defensive around Wimpy when he mentioned football

He was great in the booth, though.

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He was fine, but Hawk made that broadcast.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

We're just here to do the Super Bowl Troubles

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That was my favorite era of NFL Today…Irv Cross, Brent Musburger, Jimmy the Greek, Phyllis George. For some reason it seemed like must-see TV back then.

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MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!- DJT 12/25/23

Nas, how would you even know? You were like six.

Hawk was awesome back then, but it was the two of them clicking that made it work.

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I'm a man! Wimpy was around for my childhood.

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Nas: Blago, who has single handedly destroyed CFMB?

Blago: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lftdxd-YXt8?feature=share

"You can’t love your country only when you win." -President Biden

https://youtu.be/R6e4ruziZBI?si=1G4W1vbh0eGQuHfU

Then that was a good childhood.

He was with the Sox when Hawk cut out for a few years. He was great for the fans. When they brought on DJ . . . it just soured me. Lots of good memories of Hawk and Wimpy.

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One of the stranger experiences I had in YouTube's deep archive of old MLB telecasts was stumbling upon a game where Hawk Harrelson was doing the typical Hawk Harrelson shtick for the Yankees. I think Jim Durham was minding the store that year.

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payton's first few seasons we got a lot of lindsey nelson. excellent broadcaster. he watched the bears lose to vikings every year on a blocked punt or FG and the vikings' fred cox would kick 17 yard field goals. i believe my alex karras super toe could kick a plastic football further than fred cox could kick a FG.

after lindsey nelson, we got much more tim ryan.

In '88 and '89, it was John Rooney and Gary Thorne, respectively, with Paciorek. Jim Durham would do games in '90 and when Channel 9 had them. Durham wasn't real good. No rapport with Paciorek and there was such a drop-off from what was vintage Hawk. I know nobody cares, but I figured you might actually be interested.

Wimpy was actually a bit cranky when he was with Durham.

But I have seen a Yankees game with Hawk on YouTube, and I also found it strange.

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Jim Durham
Wayne Larrivee
Pat Foley
John Rooney

Back in the day the 5 & 10 pm local Chicago newscasts 3-4 minute sports segment were must see viewing. No particular favorites they all were good. Savvy viewers would know which was first. Watch the first until something like tennis comes up and usually be able to catch a lot of all channels 2, 5, 7, and 9's. Unless it was a rarity that a player or team announcer was doing the sports than watch his whole sports segment. Those are now obsolete and I haven't watched in years.

Top 5 for me:

1. Pat Foley
2. Pat Hughes/Ron Santo
3. Harry Caray
4. John Rooney
5. Jim Durham