March 29, 20233 yr 5 hours ago, JoshPR said: I think it was 2 hours. 6-8 he would be living in Ohio Doesn't Hawk live in Arizona now or somewhere like that? In that case 6-8 hours for "home" games (including flights) would seem realistic.
March 29, 20233 yr 15 hours ago, 2Deep said: Just don't understand the JB hate from some/many here. The guy is a very good broadcaster. Well, he sings for 4 seconds every game and that is too much for some people to tolerate.
March 30, 20233 yr 15 hours ago, Dick Allen said: He probably has more of JR's ear than a normal marketing guy. He is on the BOD and was a co-founder of JR's Silver Chalise VC company. I think it's done pretty well. But, I don't know how you blame him for RH and KW performance the last couple of seasons. I get that, but the reason someone like hawk is blaming brooks is because brooks probably did some market research and determined Hawk had lost his way AND he was a risk to the organization because of his gramps tendencies (meaning he was a risk on air to say something damaging.) Obviously brooks has nothing to do with the product on the field as you noted, and it's not as if hawk not having an opinion on org operations would be a bad thing anyway. Edited March 30, 20233 yr by Look at Ray Ray Run
March 30, 20233 yr Hawk is whining like he did on some broadcasts. He spent over 30 years with the organization in various capacities and made a great living. Perhaps things didn't end like he wanted, but overall, he had to be happy with the experience as a whole. Regardless, it was time for him to go. I am not really interested in anything he has to say.
March 30, 20233 yr On 3/29/2023 at 1:13 AM, 2Deep said: You can say what you want about HAWK but when me and my buddies get together, some are not even sox fans, somehow Hawkisms come out during our conversations with each other..... Do y'all tell each other Yaz stories, too?
April 3, 20233 yr On 3/30/2023 at 10:34 PM, Bossanoveralls said: Do y'all tell each other Yaz stories, too? Double bonus if related to the 1967 season...
April 4, 20233 yr Hawk is a legend, his catchprases were and always will be an essential part of my baseball vocabulary (my wife the O's fan says "put it on the board"), and in his prime as an announcer I never cared how biased he was, I loved that s%*# and that he was openly rooting for the team like me. But like several others have said, the last few years were just painful to listen to, he'd have tantrums on the air, long periods of awkward silence, droning on about the same old stories he's been telling since I was a kid... it was time, and Benetti was ready to step up.
April 4, 20233 yr I was at Soxfest back in maybe 2001 and rode on an escalator w the Hawk. I struck up a short convo he said he came from Florida weather to this and smiled. Seemed like a real down to earth guy
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