................ Recently John Sterling of Yankees radio did an it is high, it is far, it is gone description of a homer. Only it wasn't a homer, it was caught, I believe, and he had to quickly retreat and correct himself. .............
Trupiano was notorious for his crack-of-the-bat 'way back' calls on balls eventually caught by the shortstop, which used to drive me to distraction, but he was always given a pass by folks who didn't like Castig but personally liked Trupe, a theme which seems to color a lot of threads.
Bostonians in particular, and New Englanders in general, seem to like ideosyncratic play-by-play guys. I remember friends from out of town who considered listening to Johnny Most a "WTF? moment" but Most was a much of a local icon as any announcer this market ever had. One the other side of the coin, I find Dave O'Brien's bland homogenized-for-a-national-ESPN-audience call to be competent, but nothing out of the ordinary.
My wife, who came here via Las Vegas and Los Angeles, finds Castig unlistenable. I find him occasionally grating, but I've grown used it it after all these years. In my opinion, Martin and Woods were the best, although I grew up listening to Gowdy who I remember as great, but that's seen though the filter of a lot of years.
There's a mean-spirited crack that 'nothing in life became him so much as his leaving it.' A variation of that around here would be that nothing improves the performance of any radio personality as getting fired, with the esteem-scale depending on who did the firing.
Regards,
TSB
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