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KNBR screws the pooch!

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Whoops...By now I'm sure you've all heard about Dave Flemming's mic going dead right in the middle of Bonds 715th home run. Man, that is classic. I feel bad for Flemming, but I think it's hysterical overall. And it came a day after a big article in the SF Chronicle about KNBR and the Giants not getting along as well asthey used to. You can't write this stuff.
 
A Classic...They did the story on KPIX TV last night, and not in sports in the main news. Then this morning it was on Goodmorning America. and not the local insert...on the national broadcast. Thank you Charlie Gibson. Congrats Sports Leader! And the engineer (ahem) was Lee Hammer, KNBR's PD. Lee Jones the regular pro that does the games, was off on Sunday...Was that a bullet go by?Oh, and not the Day After, the Day OF the Giant's KNBR article. What a great way to impress your new owners. welcome to the Big LeaguesCumulus.
 
Is this the article you refer to?http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/05/28/KNBR.TMPThe Giants better stay with KNBR, no other station in the area has a signal worthy of carrying their play-by-play (except KGO, but they're never going to do sports, not as the 25+ year #1 station). Just look at the situation with the A's. Giants games can be heard from Canada to Mexico, Hawaii to Colorado at night, and from Grapevine to Eureka and into Nevada during the day. The A's are lucky if their flagship is even heard halfway between Santa Cruz and Monterey.I feel sorry for Dave Flemming. He was the new guy just a couple years ago but he's put a lot of effort into improving his calls. He gets a chance to get a call into Cooperstown and it gets heard by no one because of a technical glitch. Duane Kuiper, the unintentional beneficiary of the glitch, already got to call #714 on radio.Does anyone know exactly what happened? I've never heard of a broadcast mic going dead before. Did someone get excited, jump up and knock out a cable, or did someone try to adjust the sound for the historic play and hit mute instead? Or maybe it was just the curse of the Bambino taking its last gasp by killing KNBR's feed.
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A Classic...They did the story on KPIX TV last night, and not in sports in the main news. Then this morning it was on Goodmorning America. and not the local insert...on the national broadcast. Thank you Charlie Gibson. Congrats Sports Leader! And the engineer (ahem) was Lee Hammer, KNBR's PD. Lee Jones the regular pro that does the games, was off on Sunday...Was that a bullet go by?Oh, and not the Day After, the Day OF the Giant's KNBR article. What a great way to impress your new owners. welcome to the Big LeaguesCumulus.
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It's the curse of Barbieri, guys! Whatever he touches, it dies. The Giants in 2002 and the Sharks this year! LOL
 
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