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I must be the only White Sox fan who simply didn't like John Rooney as a PBP man. Too "trained" sounding and basically humorless. He was on one of the WSCR morning shows (I think with Levine) awhile back, and the guy was everything I remembered: lacking in wit, zero personality, and unwilling to engage in any conversation that would resemble a human being. Calls a professional game, for sure. But not my cup of tea.

Schriff is better than last year, and I think he's put in a lot more work, but he's still pretty unlistenable. But Agrest is wrong that "sac fly RBI" is redundant. There are sac flies that advance runners without scoring them. Also, his mention of Boog Sciambi as a gold standard doesn't resonate a whole lot with me. One's mileage may vary, of course, but I find Sciambi to be cookie-cutter boring. Someone in this thread mentioned Amin, and he's excellent. We had a guy kinda like that (yes, I know his humor was not appreciated by some on the board), and let him walk.

This pick is an indictment of Reinsdorf's refusal to pay to retain our own talent. It's a Crochet-proofing choice, and that sucks.

Pedro would flush it, but first he needs to find it.

Should've stayed in the bathroom.

I'll take Kap over a lot of local hosts, but he's basically a guy who believes in things like the magic of rain delays and the competence of Jed Hoyer.

Wait, did they just say that Ellis learned that he shouldn't be hopping up and down taking his lead? What?

Lemme guess, Kap also said Nico Hoerner is a Hall of Famer. Kap is basically your prototypical dolt Cub fan.

Easy there, Pedro is 4 steps ahead of us all.

I loved Stone: "His ERA just a shade under 7 and a half."

Brebbia's ERA! LOL!

One of the most joyless players I've ever seen. Just a total drag, even apart from his less-than-mediocre performance.

The. Worst.

Agreed on Zaidman. Unlike several of his peers (Benetti included), his "announcer voice" and general smarmy bearing are a continuous advertisement for I went to Syracuse to become a broadcaster, and he's also one of the all-time hilariously cliched apologists for any team he covers -- Cubs, Bears, or DePaul. An immediate "change the station" guy for me, when he subs in on Mully and Haugh, that's a morning I won't be listening to that show. So yeah, compared to him, McKnight's a dream.

Candelario is experiencing what I call "the Cubby bump." It's a phenomenon where generally pedestrian players come to the Cubs during so-called pennant races, are completely jacked about being in a fun environment -- and go on a tremendous roll, becoming talked about by Cubs fans and dumbshit media members as All-Star players, only to eventually come down to Earth and become exposed for the basically mediocre players they were all along (e.g., late-stage Kenny Lofton, overhyped Matt Murton, post-roids Nomar Garciaparra, spectacular-catch-that-one-time Reed Johnson, etc.).