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Vin Scully would be dumbfounded by today’s MLB broadcasters’ incessant screaming

New York Post
Summary
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51% Informative

Bob Greene asks: Has common sense and good faith toward listeners and viewers been eradicated or degraded? Greene : Televised live sports events have been flooded with hand-picked, overpaid and relentlessly annoying voices.

He says TBS’s lead baseball voice, Brian Anderson , has never been special, but this postseason, he has chosen to holler at every batted ball, strikeout and grounder to second .

Greene : Anderson 's sugar-high, occasionally hysterical guesswork-infused play-by-play hasn't matched what we’ve seen.

Bob Greene : Would Vin Scully , the elegant Voice Emeritus of Baseball we came to cherish, be hired today ? Greene : Why did Carlos Mendoza start Kodai Senga in Game 1 vs. the Dodgers when he was so clearly unprepared to pitch in any game, let alone a big one? Greene asks: Why has it taken 10 years of dubious analytics for baseball media to begin questioning why managers have become so reliant on half -inning-each relievers.

VR Score

50

Informative language

46

Neutral language

25

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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