Harrelson the Whiner

[danonwaveland]

Glancing at recent Sox games during commercials, I've heard Harrelson complain about the "teacup" strike zones with which Sox pitchers have had to contend. Today, in the ninth, when the first pitch to Pierzynski is called a strike, Pierzynski gave the body language to show his disagreement. He's a player; that's okay. But Harrelson complains that Sox pitchers haven't had that pitch called their way all day.

 

Geez, give it a rest. Whenever the Sox hit a rough stretch, he almost invariably whines about what he feels is poor and unbalanced balls-and-strikes calls by the home plate ump. Granted, he does lay some blame at the feet of the Sox players, but he whines more than any other broadcaster I've heard. Harrelson, grab some bench.

[Lockes Eye Scar]

Nobody worse.

 

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/Matt_2108/hawk-harrelson-pa-munster.jpg

[PrimeTime]

I can't stand that guy..he whines and crys about everything. If things are going bad for the Sox he wont say anything in the air for 10 minutes straight.Always complains about the strike zone and how the other team gets the all the right calls and the sox are getting treated unfairly and all the bad calls. They need to get rid of the Hawk.Hes a bum

[rynefan]

I absolutely cannot stand him. He's SO negative. Watching games he's broadcasting is torture.

[seanimal]

ducksnort

[JonnyRed]

The absolute best is when the other team scores, all you hear is the beautiful sound of silence because the bum doesn't even call the play half the time.

[Derwood]

Glancing at recent Sox games during commercials, I've heard Harrelson complain about the "teacup" strike zones with which Sox pitchers have had to contend. Today, in the ninth, when the first pitch to Pierzynski is called a strike, Pierzynski gave the body language to show his disagreement. He's a player; that's okay. But Harrelson complains that Sox pitchers haven't had that pitch called their way all day.

 

Geez, give it a rest. Whenever the Sox hit a rough stretch, he almost invariably whines about what he feels is poor and unbalanced balls-and-strikes calls by the home plate ump. Granted, he does lay some blame at the feet of the Sox players, but he whines more than any other broadcaster I've heard. Harrelson, grab some bench.

 

sound like about 90% of the posts in every game thread here

[SouthSideRyan]

Glancing at recent Sox games during commercials, I've heard Harrelson complain about the "teacup" strike zones with which Sox pitchers have had to contend. Today, in the ninth, when the first pitch to Pierzynski is called a strike, Pierzynski gave the body language to show his disagreement. He's a player; that's okay. But Harrelson complains that Sox pitchers haven't had that pitch called their way all day.

 

Geez, give it a rest. Whenever the Sox hit a rough stretch, he almost invariably whines about what he feels is poor and unbalanced balls-and-strikes calls by the home plate ump. Granted, he does lay some blame at the feet of the Sox players, but he whines more than any other broadcaster I've heard. Harrelson, grab some bench.

 

sound like about 90% of the posts in every game thread here

 

If the people posting in game threads were being paid to broadcast play by play this might be a relevant.

[Derwood]

Glancing at recent Sox games during commercials, I've heard Harrelson complain about the "teacup" strike zones with which Sox pitchers have had to contend. Today, in the ninth, when the first pitch to Pierzynski is called a strike, Pierzynski gave the body language to show his disagreement. He's a player; that's okay. But Harrelson complains that Sox pitchers haven't had that pitch called their way all day.

 

Geez, give it a rest. Whenever the Sox hit a rough stretch, he almost invariably whines about what he feels is poor and unbalanced balls-and-strikes calls by the home plate ump. Granted, he does lay some blame at the feet of the Sox players, but he whines more than any other broadcaster I've heard. Harrelson, grab some bench.

 

sound like about 90% of the posts in every game thread here

 

If the people posting in game threads were being paid to broadcast play by play this might be a relevant.

 

if this was a White Sox board, I might care

[seanimal]

I luuuuuuuuuv cotton candy.

[Banedon]

Off to rivalries with ye!!

[Derwood]

Off to rivalries with ye!!

 

I am in awe of your power!

[Soriano12]

A good amount of Sox fans hate him too.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Hawk is probably the worst broadcaster in sports. I think the guy who calls local high school games on our local radio could do his job better.

[NewUserName]

I was making a 3 hr drive the other night and MVP had the NBA game on so I listened to about a half hour of Sox postgame. Though the voice wasnt as annoying as Hawk that Chris Ronge is just as much of a whinning homer.

 

Listening though I did find out that most White Sox fans think that trading CLee for Pods was a good trade because Pods was better than CLee. I could see that saying the trade was good because the got a LFer who had a career year and saved enough money to sign a starter who had a career year(Contraras) which led to them winning the WS. Pods has not and never will be as good as CLee though and the trade was pretty lopsided.

[Butterscup1679666578]

I love listening to Hawk and DJ because they are so, so, so bad that I can't help but laugh.

[BleedCubbieBlue81]

I hate him. What really made me mad this year was when the Cubs were playing the Sox. Any small play that went the Cubs way was because they just got lucky, but when the exact same thing happened to the Sox, it was because it was a "grinder play", or because the Sox play "grinder ball."

[cubweiser03]

I have to admit i find some of his schtick amusing. The whining is what i cant stand, thats the part that makes me hate his style the most and its unprofessional.

[fromthestretch]

Hawk is probably the worst broadcaster in sports. I think the guy who calls local high school games on our local radio could do his job better.

 

The "boom goes the dynamite" guy could probably do a better job.

[Schwarber Fan]

Last week white watching White Sox/Twins on WGN:

 

Thome hits a fly to deep center... "Well hit - Stretch, Stretch *Hunter robs Thome of HR* ----dead silence----"

[fromthestretch]

I think this thread needs a bump after yesterday's broadcasting fiasco after the Pagan/Uribe collision at second base.

 

It absolutely boggles my mind how someone like Hawk has a job doing play-by-play for a major league team.

[Soul]

Last week white watching White Sox/Twins on WGN:

 

Thome hits a fly to deep center... "Well hit - Stretch, Stretch *Hunter robs Thome of HR* ----dead silence----"

 

Yeah, that's what gets me. The guy goes silent for entire freaking innings sometimes. I've heard games where it's essentially DJ alone doing play-by-play and color for 3 innings.

 

And DJ's no top baseball announcer. So, it's incredibly bad. But Hawk is so entrenched, he's not leaving. No skin off my back -- I rather enjoy knowing the South Side has the worst booth in baseball.

[killthegoat06]

I love listening to Hawk and DJ because they are so, so, so bad that I can't help but laugh.

 

Kind of like the cubs :wink:

[RonnieWooWooSanto]

I don't think he does he anymore. But, Hawk used to go silent on weekend games even when does Sox were having a good game.

 

The reason is that he had a television set up in the booth so that he could watch NASCAR. Supposedly, he was more interested in the race rather than the game.

 

I don't believe he has ever done this since working with DJ, but I guess he did it routinely on the weekends when working with Wimpy (Tom Paciorek).

[bluestainedivy]

I'd have to say that DJ's more annoying to me. I don't think I've heard any more sunshine pumping than what he does, other than the astros TV and radio guys Milo included (I live a little out of the Houston area). During Saturday's game he spent almost a half-inning talking about how great a hitter one of the sox batter's was and he was only hitting .230+.