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Originally Posted by MikeyC
He's not a great announcer I'll grant you that, but I would have to say the WORST announcer in all of sports is Greg Gumbel. Absolutely HORRIBLE. He is closely followed by Joe Buck.
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Not just a huge fan of either Greg or Bryant Gumble for that matter. They're tolerable only so long as they don't have the opportunity to express their personal opinions in more than one sentence fragments.
Joe Buck isn't a third as good as he thinks he is, and he really doesn't add much at all to a broadcast. A "Joe" I don't care for is Joe Morgan, but at least he has some idea of what he is talking about. He just doesn't think anybody else knows anything. Madden should have taken the Frank Calliendo thing with more grace. Bill Walton... I see what you're saying, but since I was a Celts fan when I was a kid I probably have a higher threshold for him, too. Lunquist seems to know only what he was told within the hour before the broadcast. Gary Danielson is obviously knowledgeable, but has the tact of a rhino and I find myself oscillating with respect to him.
I liked Jackson, Gifford, Dandy Don was fun. I like Al Michaels, I liked Pat Summerall a lot. Jim McCay did his job well without trying to become part of the story. Speaking of which, Cossell was irritating of course, but I was still a kid during his prime so I didn't really get too hacked off by him. Vin Scully always did a very nice job. Bob Costas doesn't impress me as much as he does others, but I don't dislike him. I used to love to hear Harry Carey call a game. I happen to like Dick Enberg calling tennis.