Dear Dave Barnett

by TedFord on Apr 11, 2009 1:53 PM CDT Comment 14 comments

I hope you are checking your work by listening to tapes. Here are a couple of things that you can work on:

1. Do you always talk this slowly? Try to step it up a notch. Granted baseball is a slow game, but when action breaks out, it demands quick description...which leads to #2..

2. Stuff is happening on the field and your call is lagging way behind. In the recent homestand, there would be a critical strikeout by a Ranger pitcher. But the way the listener found out was by the roar of the crowd, not by your call. Precious milliseconds passed before you let us know that indeed it was strike three.

We're pulling for you, Dave. Your body of work is so impressive. Your voice is perfect. Hope you understand.

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"Congrats Rangers fans, you just found your replacement for Mark Teixeira. Just a crazy, crazy steal." -Goldstein

by Plum on Apr 11, 2009 2:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Quit complaining

Just because it’s something you don’t find interesting doesn’t mean this should go in the fanshot region. In fact since he got over 75 words without going filler… filler… filler… that should be enough to fit the qualification of being a real fanpost.

I think a legitimate discussion on Dave Barnett’s announcing should be welcomed especially since TedFord gave some real issues to discuss. Plus people who listen to the radio have gotten to listen to him for four days now so some real impressions should be forming.

by TRanger on Apr 11, 2009 2:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.

by knockoutking on Apr 12, 2009 3:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

um

there is nothing about this that is a fanshot. not a link, picture, video. can you even make this into a fanshot?

Ceterum censeo Cat esse delendam - Cahill the Elder

by ab03 on Apr 11, 2009 3:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

becasuse he said so?

hes ron burgundy?

Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.

by knockoutking on Apr 12, 2009 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nope.

I’m usually the first to cry foul on the FanShot/FanPost choice, but this looks pretty legit for me.

Seeking a new signature...

by ghtd36 on Apr 11, 2009 3:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

It’s like he makes a point of never speeding up his pace, even when it’s really necessary.

And nothing frustrates me more than hearing the crack of the bat and having to wait a beat (or more) before the announcer tells me what happened.

There was a play today that really frustrated me as a listener. It was the play where Kinsler missed a popup in shallow right and then Cruz threw the runner out at second. Barnett noted Kinsler dropping the ball, and then stopped talking. His entire tone the way the call was formed gave the distinct impression the play was over and the ball was being thrown casually into the infield. Then he says rather casually that Cruz picked up the ball and threw the runner out at second. It was such a herky jerky call and left me really frustrated.

by jthig32 on Apr 11, 2009 2:59 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I was in the car during most of the game...

…and thus heard the radio PBP for the first time this season…

And I absolutely agree with #2. He seems way behind the action.

by Adam J. Morris on Apr 11, 2009 3:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep

Only heard a couple of innings on radio while out on an errand. It was OK, but just didn’t seem interesting (of course the game itself wasn’t anything epic)

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce

by Ed Coffin on Apr 11, 2009 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Great broadcasters create the drama

though, it seems that Barnett is more the slightly-interested observer than he is an analyst or commentator.

by FirebatM3 on Apr 11, 2009 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

I listened to the first 3 games of the season and when Barnett was doing PBP, I felt like I had a tough time keeping up with what was happening in the game.

by rangers85 on Apr 11, 2009 3:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Which is weird because calling a baseball game is not very complicated.

by oc on Apr 12, 2009 12:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

With all these day games

…I’ve been catching bits and pieces of the radio broadcast. This new guy is BORING. I liked Rojas okay, although I know many of you didn’t. Cotroneo was pretty good.

This guy just sucks. Hate to say that about anybody, but that’s my opinion. Sounds like he’s taken a double dose of valium before the game. Makes me want to take a whole bottle and wash it down with bottom shelf whiskey.

Nadel is great…thank God for him is all I can say.

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by Black Francis on Apr 11, 2009 9:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

More on Nadel

I just can’t say enough good about Eric. He is intelligent, compassionate, passionate, and knowledgeable about the game. You could listen an entire season and count his mistakes on one hand. He knows the rule book as well as the umps. His call of the game is colorful and instantaneous. And I hate it when he has to take a two inning break.

II Cor. 4:17-18

by TedFord on Apr 12, 2009 7:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs