Heads22 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Saw it on the Twitter. Watching videos on YouTube and I like his sound. Has cerebral palsy but certainly doesn't affect him. Grew up a Sox fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 And he is.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) Here we go. Â Â Â EDIT: Based on his picture, I thought he would have a high-pitched nerdy voice. But he actually sounds pretty classic. He sounds like someone from mlb.com actually. Edited January 13, 2016 by Chilihead90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaconOnAStick Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Seeing as he's 32 I'm guessing there won't be too many Yaz stories from his playing days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsandz Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 12:24 AM) Here we go.   EDIT: Based on his picture, I thought he would have a high-pitched nerdy voice. But he actually sounds pretty classic. He sounds like someone from mlb.com actually.  Happy for Jason. Great guy and a talented announcer. Hired purely based on his ability but another testament to the team's willingness to stand at the forefront of equal opportunity regardless of race, religion, politics gender or disability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaconOnAStick Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) You realize how this reads? Yes? Â They seem to have grabbed a guy who is everything Harrelson isnt. Unless you liked the Yaz stories? I didn't. I think you'd be the only one. Â This is the video posted in his Twitter bio, by the way: https://youtu.be/9ZlBUglE6Hc Edited January 13, 2016 by Alexeihyeess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 01:04 AM) Yes? They seem to have grabbed a guy who is everything Harrelson isnt. Unless you liked the Yaz stories? I didn't. I think you'd be the only one.  This is the video posted in his Twitter bio, by the way: https://youtu.be/9ZlBUglE6Hc  I think you probably could have just stopped at him being 32 as reason enough for a dramatic cut-back on Yaz stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 12:53 AM) Happy for Jason. Great guy and a talented announcer. Hired purely based on his ability but another testament to the team's willingness to stand at the forefront of equal opportunity regardless of race, religion, politics gender or disability. Â I like his work that I've seen / heard. Really glad they hired outside of the Sox family and didn't hire a former player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The biggest positive is they chose the best candidate and not the cronyism approach of sticking someone like Bill Melton or another former Sox guy in there even if he wasn't really experienced or capable enough...MLB shouldn't be for "on the job" training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEdWalsh Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I like what I see and hear of him already. Pretty sure I've heard him doing some college basketball games for ESPN. I could see him and Stone working well together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qmoe1020 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I'm glad we scooped up Jason before someone else did. He's an up and comer. Great hire! Friends at ESPN can't say enough good things about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxsoxsoxsox Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016  http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/colum...112-column.html  "He got the job because he's really a good broadcaster, not because of the side stories," Brooks Boyer, the White Sox chief marketing officer, said. "What stands out is his ability to broadcast a game." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Looking forward to hearing a fresh new voice during games. Good luck to Jason! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouCanPutItOnTheBoardYES! Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 So this guy is doing all Sox home games when Hawk isn't there? Â I've never heard his voice before, but damn, he can't be any worse than Swirsky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Looking forward to a new voice and new style. Long overdue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 For Illinois fans, he did the Mich St game with Calhoun last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooftop Shots Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Few things looking for. 2).....Enthusiasm (that he has a good home run call) (if you walk away from the TV, that YOU KNOW that something great happened by the excitement in his voice and can't wait to run back to find out what happened) (clutch situations.....is there enough "drive" in his voice and announcing skills as to help get the viewers "jacked" to help really get INTO the game. 2) Is there enough knowledge, experience and respect in the guy, where he doesn't have to keep looking to Stoney for advice on players situations etc. NOT ALL... but to me......announcers that have played the game usually have a better handle on something that they have experienced first hand and that their lives were heavily involved in, rather than someone that just has had an eye view of something. (example. you can draw plans on how to build a house, but unless you actually did the work that was involved in the actual construction of it, there is no way that you can personally feel all that goes into doing it ....and therefore have a better handle on all of its INNER nuances that goes into the actual process of it. If that wasn't true to the case, then MLB channel and all of their programming would not be flooded with announcers that had their heart, soul, and sweat that was put into the game. On a personal side, I hope that I am proved wrong and that this guy does very very well. Because ...yes...there are announcers that are VERY GOOD at what they do, and yet have no clue on which end of the bat to hold, because they never even played the game. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago White Sox Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 06:09 AM) So this guy is doing all Sox home games when Hawk isn't there? I've never heard his voice before, but damn, he can't be any worse than Swirsky. Yeah, impossible to judge him just yet, but I like they got a legit PbP guy and he should definitely be better than Swirsky, who got really annoying by the end of his test run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooftop Shots Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 06:09 AM) So this guy is doing all Sox home games when Hawk isn't there? I've never heard his voice before, but damn, he can't be any worse than Swirsky.  YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS that is a major major major major major major plus. If Swirsky got the bill.....geez.............I would go out and order a specialized TV and have it programmed to mute the sound and have no closed caption on Sox home games only. When he announced, I didn't know if I was watching a game on TV, or listening to a 5 year old kid in a long car ride with his dad and always asking and pestering him "Hey dad..are we there yet? Are we there yet? How much longer before we are there? Hey dad this.....Hey dad that etc etc etc. I am sure that there were times that Stoney had to be thinking "Swirsky.......Shut the "F" up, get some actual knowledge of the game and then come back and do your job will ya?"  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The ending of an era. It really makes me sad to think that the guy who has been the soundtrack of my fanhood is leaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Sounds like he's got good pipes. Hope he and Stone mesh well together, and Hawk realizes he's toast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3GamesToLove Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 My only hope is that if he's attuned to advanced metrics, that Stone works with him on those topics. Stone doesn't exactly buy in, I don't think, though maybe he does a little more than he lets on with Hawk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Dye Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 From homewood flossmoor apparently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonbluess Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 07:15 AM) The ending of an era. It really makes me sad to think that the guy who has been the soundtrack of my fanhood is leaving. Â Swirsky? Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Lopez's Ghost Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Just read the Chi Tribune front page article on Jason. Seems like a terrific hire. Although Jason seems to not want to be known as the guy with cerebral palsey - understandably - I'm kinda proud that the Sox would hire a guy on his ability in a world where some don't get jobs because of their disabilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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