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Ken Korach On Bill King

BossRadioDJ

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This may be the single most erudite piece of writing by a sportscaster about another sportscaster that has ever been written:

Ken Korach: Bill King Was A Master, Too

If you're a fan of Bill King and/or Ken Korach, please take the time to read it.

Congratulations to Ken, also, for getting a two-year extension as The Voice Of Your Oakland Athletics. He's terribly underrated and underappreciated ... except by those of us that rate him among the best in the business and appreciate the great work he does, game in and game out.
 
Great piece. I still remember Korach doing San Jose State football on KCBS (and wherever SJSU games were carried until he joined the PCL team in Vegas), following some mighty fine voices in Hal Ramey and Ted Robinson.
 
The Korach/King team was arguably one of the most exciting combos in all of baseball broadcasting. I travel a lot and have heard many local games, and there really are a lot of very good play callers out there. But compared to the rest, Bill King audibly painted the visual image of the game better than anyone I have ever heard- and could make you really feel and visualize the emotion and excitment of the game.

Bill King was awesome and will always be missed, but A's fans thankfully still Have Ken Korach around. Hopefully he'll be able to call a few Giambi grand slams this coming year like he and Bill King did so well a few years ago...
 
"Bill King was cool, before it was cool to be cool"
-Gary Radnich
 
HE'LL ALWAYS BE KING!

HE WAS THE GREATEST BUT HE HAD NO EGO PROBLEMS AT ALL...A TRULY NICE MAN.

I WAS CUTTING 18 RADIO SPOTS FOR THE A'S BACK IN THE 90's AT THE KSFO/KYA RECORDING STUDIO AT 300 BROADWAY FOR KEN PRIES (HEAD OF A'S BROADCASTING) BILL KING WAS THERE TOO, TO CUT OTHER SPOTS. HE PAID ME THE GREATEST COMPLIMENT SAYING HE NEVER HEARD ANYONE TALK SO FAST. I TOLD HIM HE WAS BEING MODEST, THAT NO ONE TALKS FASTER THAN BILL KING.

IT WAS A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE KNOWN HIM.



JERRY GORDON KNUU LAS VEGAS
 
EastBay said:
The Korach/King team was arguably one of the most exciting combos in all of baseball broadcasting. I travel a lot and have heard many local games, and there really are a lot of very good play callers out there. But compared to the rest, Bill King audibly painted the visual image of the game better than anyone I have ever heard- and could make you really feel and visualize the emotion and excitment of the game.

Bill King was awesome and will always be missed, but A's fans thankfully still Have Ken Korach around. Hopefully he'll be able to call a few Giambi grand slams this coming year like he and Bill King did so well a few years ago...
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is there any other announcer, anywhere on this planet, that anyone might believe is the best basketball, best football, and best baseball announcer they ever heard; I'm not sure that I believe that, but who, anywhere, ever could even be a candidate for that?
 
stub said:
is there any other announcer, anywhere on this planet, that anyone might believe is the best basketball, best football, and best baseball announcer they ever heard; I'm not sure that I believe that, but who, anywhere, ever could even be a candidate for that?
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At least we know that Fox Sports TV's Joe Buck is the worst in all the above categories...
;D
--jay
 
I have a little expertise in this area and would say that for all three sports, the only one on the horizon is Greg Papa. Greg and I would agree that he is not there yet, but there is no one else even doing three major league sports that I know of.

Papa has done G.S. Warriors and San Antonio Spurs at the pro level as well as a lot of local college hoops
Papa has done A's and Giants and national MLB for ESPN
Papa has done Raiders for a dozen years at least as well as regional NCAA football and local high school.

Lon Simmons and Ted Robinson have excelled in multiple major league sports, but not three,
Joe Starkey has done as many sports as Papa, just not at the same level consistently.

Papa would beg-off being put at the Bill King level, but he's just a kid. I have ties older than Greg Papa.
 
djj said:
At least we know that Fox Sports TV's Joe Buck is the worst in all the above categories...
;D
--jay
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Talk about talent skipping a generation -- Joe Buck could be the most boring, over-rated, uninteresting, colorless, talentless sportscaster of our generation.

But he has a great last name, and the network suits looooooove the bland. And nobody does the bland like Joe Buck.
 
Talk about talent skipping a generation -- Joe Buck could be the most boring, over-rated, uninteresting, colorless, talentless sportscaster of our generation.



DJ, you are waaaaaay too kind. I still haven't forgiven him for that little stunt after Game 5 of the NLCS in 2002, with the little tribute to his dad, the Cardinals announcer .... just minutes after the Giants beat the Cardinals at (then) PacBell to go to the Series! That was the Giants' moment, not the Cardinals!
 
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