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These Guys...Don't Like Each Other

Apparently, it's been coming on for a very long time. I don't know what or who started it, but from what I've seen of them on Tigers broadcasts, it was apparent that they really didn't get along. Impemba is a decent play-caller, but Allen has been putrid since his days with the Diamondbacks 20 years ago, and he's no better now. Maybe it's a personality conflict, or maybe Impemba just got fed up with Allen's mediocre analyst skills.

It's hardly the first time that broadcasters have barely been able to stand one another in the booth. Notable examples are/were:

Harry Caray and Milo Hamilton. That feud is legendary, going back to St. Louis in 1954. It flared up again in 1982, when Harry moved over from the White Sox. Milo blamed Harry for bad weather.

Hawk Harrelson and just about everyone not named Don Drysdale, although he has made peace with Steve Stone and Tom Paciorek in the last couple of years (Hawk's done at the end of this season anyway).

Howard Cosell and rest of the human race, and maybe a few animals, plants, and rocks as well.
 
KeithE4 said:
Hawk Harrelson and just about everyone not named Don Drysdale, although he has made peace with Steve Stone and Tom Paciorek in the last couple of years (Hawk's done at the end of this season anyway).
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Hawk started his broadcasting career doing color on Red Sox TV with Dick Stockton. They seemed to have decent on-air chemistry, but Harrelson really didn't add much in the way of analysis. A ball would be hit hard off the wall and Hawk's only comment would be "That was just a PEA!" At least they weren't using him on play-by-play. I was really surprised to see his career go in that direction after he took the White Sox job.
 
At least one of them, and possibly both, have called their last Tigers game. They're both done for this season in any case.
 
umfan said:
At least one of them, and possibly both, have called their last Tigers game. They're both done for this season in any case.
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I think so too...from what heard about Chris Illitch, he's much more bottom-line oriented than his father was, so from a business standpoint, he has no incentive to keep Impemba and/or Allen. Impemba may end up calling MLB games elsewhere but in Detroit, but Allen is another one of those "dime-a-dozen" color analysts don't really add much to the broadcast. Too bad that Kirk Gibson's health issues pretty much keeps from working a full-time schedule, otherwise I think Fox Sports Detroit and the Tigers would have turned to him first to replace Allen.
 
KeithE4 said:
Howard Cosell and rest of the human race, and maybe a few animals, plants, and rocks as well.
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BWA HAAA HAAAAAA!!!!!! Man! Is THAT ever an accurate statement!!!! He could get under your skin just by saying "Hello, THIS is How-wad Ko-sell!".
 
Yeah, but Howard was a legitimate sportscasting legend. There was a method to his Howardisms. Not so much with Allen and Impemba.
 
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