Listening to a game on the radio while watching it on TV with the sound off -- C/D

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i.e. whenever there's a Giant's game on FOX, I shut off whoever's yammering brainlessly on the telly and listen to the dulcet tones of Duane Kuiper and Jon Miller -- BUT. The several second delay between radio and TV defuses some of the intensity and at times annoys the hell out of me.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic anyway. Anything's better than Fox, including silence, the gurgling of my intestines, dogfights in the alley, MC Pee Pants and Slim Whitman.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 20 June 2004 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

k-classic. though even better would be if they offered Second Audio Programming on the telecast that had just the sounds of the game with no commentary at all.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to say classic, but it may be the weakest "classic" endorsement I've ever given. I'm actually kinda luke-warm on it. I think because there's too much talking that you don't really need since you can actually see the game.

My mother used to tell me about her Aunt Bo who would watch one game on the TV while listening to another game on the radio. I have only vague memories of Aunt Bo because she smoked like a chimney and died of lung cancer when I was very young. However, in the memories I do have, she looked a lot like Marge Schott.

― boldbury (boldbury), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic for any number of reasons, the best of which might be it allows me to listen to Hughes/Santo and allows me to bypass Chip Caray's bald call.

Dud end of it involves synching probs. The WGN Radio/TV feed is usually synchronized, but whenever Fox carries the game, I can hear Pat Hughes describing things in the kitchen that have yet to happen on the screen I am watching. That blows.

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Monday, 21 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, listen to Santo bust an artery at the end of the Cubs bottom of the 9th comeback against Oakland... exactly what I love about him. He's just a fan.

― mattbot (mattbot), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That's cool, mattbot. I was actually watching that one with the sound up on the television (due to the aforementioned synch probs) so I missed Pat Hughes' call. Chip, of course, slapped the lacquer on real thick, saying how rare it is for a team to come back in the ninth inning these days . . . forgetting about Joe Borowski's struggles and the back-to-back groin shots recently in Pittsburgh.

Hughes is just so much better than Caray. The dream-team for me is Hughes/Stone with Santo doing phone-in hyperventilations.

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

absolute classic, but i must confess that i employ this technique primarily for rehskeeyun football (frank herzog, sam huff and sonny jurgenson rule all!).

― j.q. higgins, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend's dad growing up would often set on a picnic table on his back porch getting sloshed drinking vodka skrewdrivers while watching the Cubs on one TV, Braves on another TV and listening to the Reds on the radio. What is more classic is that one of the tvs was an early console set that he put up on a table to go out the window and the other was a small B&W set in the other window where the small radio would be blaring.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 22 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Now, that's modern living. An indelible memory involves my dad bringing his little transistor radio with him nearly everywhere he went, to stay current with the hapless (mid-'70s and early '80s) Cubs teams he followed. Golf courses, restaurants, picnics. Hilarious.

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Both of those guys sound like good examples of The High Life Man.

I like the new one with the High Life Man chiding the guy for kicking his golf ball to get a better lie.

― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

For the next three days: very classic.

I've got the sketchiest signal possible of Pat and Ron going right now, which is still a million times better than Hawk and DJ on WGN.

DJ: "The Cubs have had injuries and remain to have injuries."

― mattbot (mattbot), Friday, 25 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

If I were you, I'd go out of my way to tune into this DJ!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 25 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to listen to Yankees games this way in 98, there was only like half a second difference between them. I mean what would you do faced with Kay/Sterling vs Buck/McCarver??? (I actually kind of like Joe Buck as a straight man).. classic classic. It's too bad now that Michael Kay is on TV he doesn't get to do the thing where he describes the player's uniforms and caps in detail.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but you still get John Sterling talking about emerald grass and azure hot dogs and Jeter's indisputable greatness. And Charlie Steiner's best impression of Mushmouth, especially on the postgame wrapups - did he leave his diction in Bristol?

Listening to a Red Sox loss on the radio (especially when the Yankees are winning) is tantamount to a suicidal mid-pubescent teenager throwing on some Black Tape for a Blue Girl and reading _The Wasteland_ after getting his heart skewered by some alabaster-skinned crimson-lipped goddess.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 1 July 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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