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Marty Jumps the Shark

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Sunday afternoon... World Champion Boston Red Sox in town... and Marty has his grandchildren singing "Take me out to the Ball Game" while the game is being played. Not during a pitching change, not between innings.

It's over for him. He has become bigger than the game.

He can't handle Jeff Brantley. He can't deal with a partner who knows more baseball then he does. He can't tolerate a strong personality with a national reputation sitting next to him. He has to pass judgment on almost every comment Brantley makes, even if all he can say is simply "Absolutely right." It sounds like amateurs broadcasting high school games and affirming each other all night long.

Yesterday Marty misread an email; Jeff teased him and laughed hysterically in the background. I don't know if Marty was given incorrect information or he simply misunderstood what he was reading, but after Jeff's laughter the booth chatter abruptly stopped and there was nothing but crowd noise for quite a few seconds. Somebody was paying the price.
 
C'mon, what do you do if you're Marty? It's time to quit and everyone knows it but him. It's never gonna be the same without Joe and what does he have left to prove?

Move on. Play golf. Sing with the grandkids. Do an occasional game and leave them wanting more. No one wants to hear a "family fight."

Nobody's tombstone says, "I wish I would have spent more time at work." Quit, Marty. Go out on top - or at least as close to the top as you are now - on your way down.
 
First off, let's just respond to a couple of things in this post. Your comment that he can't tolerate Jeff Brantley is A) Asinine and B) Completely off the mark. The two of them have a great relationship. Now since I was in the booth and you weren't...the e-mail you were referring to didn't have all the facts in it. In fact, the reason everyone in the booth was laughing was because the guy's wife sent not one but two e-mails to us to give us the proper information such as the name of the guy to whom Marty was supposed to wishing happy 93rd birthday. Nobody as you claim was "paying the price". If you have a problem with him having his grandkids on that is your right. But don't make outlandish claims like he can't tolerate Brantley that you can't back up with facts.
 
Thank goodness Brantley is there. He's the only one in the booth that I enjoy listening to anymore.

Anyone else notice that Thom is now sounding a lot like Steve Stewart did, by bringing up uninteresting obscure stats and reading them with mock amazement?
 
The Cowboy is GREAT!!! Nuxy would be proud-- time to retire Marty-- bye bye-- The grandkids need you more than we do
 
You've torn back the curtain and exposed me. I cower in shame.

I wasn't in the booth. duh. In the interest of brevity I omitted that point. I assumed that people would get that. From now on I'll try to be more specific.

If you must know, at the time of the broadcast I was cutting my grass in Anderson Township. Specifically, the back yard. I was wearing headphones and a Sony Walkman. It's yellow and it takes AAA batteries.

I purchased the mower from Sears.


radio08 said:
First off, let's just respond to a couple of things in this post. Your comment that he can't tolerate Jeff Brantley is A) Asinine and B) Completely off the mark. The two of them have a great relationship. Now since I was in the booth and you weren't...the e-mail you were referring to didn't have all the facts in it. In fact, the reason everyone in the booth was laughing was because the guy's wife sent not one but two e-mails to us to give us the proper information such as the name of the guy to whom Marty was supposed to wishing happy 93rd birthday. Nobody as you claim was "paying the price". If you have a problem with him having his grandkids on that is your right. But don't make outlandish claims like he can't tolerate Brantley that you can't back up with facts.
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You can make wisecracks all you want. The simple fact is both of the statements you made in your original post remain incorrect. Marty and Jeff do in fact get along very well...which negates your statement that Marty can't handle having somebody like Brantley in the booth. And nobody was "paying the price" when the laughter in the booth stopped.
 
Also, wasn't that game a blowout early on? I believe the Red Sox pitcher, Josh Beckett, was on fire that day. The Reds were shut out and mustered only a few hits. I say that because during a butt-whooping either being administered to the Reds or being given by the Reds, Marty will sometimes get off on another topic to keep things a little more interesting. I believe most, if not all announcers do this. Ever watched an NFL game that was a blowout? If so, then you know.
 
Marty:

Call it a carreer..Take time and enjoy the grandkids and apologize to your youthful collegue while you still can.
 
I'm thinking that, behind the scenes, that broadcast team is a shambles.

Keep the Cowboy, end the Brennaman primogeniture asap.
 
I like Marty. I always have even though he is bigger than the game at this point, hopefully the Reds will put a product on the field that will be able to at least match him in the next couple years.

Sorry, I don't want to see Marty go...and his chasing rabbits in the booth with stuff like his grandkids singing is fine by me....he has earned the right to do that stuff with a team on the field that (for now) really sucks.

I like Thom and Brantly a lot better which is hard for me to admit because Brantly was pretty near horrible during the spring and early part of the season.

Steve Stewart is a good guy and was put in the booth in a no win situation where they kept bring Joe in and out of the booth...that was tough to listen to, Loved Joe but wow...that was hard to listen to. Joe was a nice guy but should have been out of the booth 5 years earlier than he was.
 
Steve Stewart was terrible. He spent most of his time on the internet trying to find interesting tidbits to mention on-air. Fine, but they weren't interesting...at all, and only illuminated upon his lack of personal baseball knowledge or experience.

I have recently observed Thom sounding very similar to Steve.
 
brian65 said:
Steve Stewart was terrible. He spent most of his time on the internet trying to find interesting tidbits to mention on-air. Fine, but they weren't interesting...at all, and only illuminated upon his lack of personal baseball knowledge or experience.

I have recently observed Thom sounding very similar to Steve.
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Having heard Steve before he tried to crack into the mix of the Old Lefthander and Marty...a move neither of them wanted according to people I know...who actually do know...I think he did a real admirable job...he is much better than he was ever given the chance to be with the Reds.

As for Thom...I've just never thought he was that interesting to begin with.
 
brian65 said:
I'm thinking that, behind the scenes, that broadcast team is a shambles.

Keep the Cowboy, end the Brennaman primogeniture asap.
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Not even close to being a shambles. I've said it before and I'll say it again, whether you want to believe it or not, both Brennamans get along great with the Cowboy.
 
Does anyone remember the Reds almost getting rid of Marty in the late 70s? They actually had his supposed "replacement" in the booth with him and the old left hander toward the end of the season. I don't remember the guy's name. I DO remember running the board for the last game of the season and Marty saying "goodbye." Then, miracle of miracles...he's back at the beginning of the pre-season like nothing happened. Was this a dream, or an actuality? If it was real, who was the almost-Marty?
 
I don't remember that back then.

If they did it now, good job.

I've heard better announcers for teams during losing seasons (mid 80's giants, Hank Greenwald) and there is no way in hell any announcer has to broadcast in a bitchy way to keep it either 'professional' or 'interesting'.

Greenwald could do it without being a bitch.

Pull the plug on Marty.
 
ten_four said:
Does anyone remember the Reds almost getting rid of Marty in the late 70s? They actually had his supposed "replacement" in the booth with him and the old left hander toward the end of the season. I don't remember the guy's name. I DO remember running the board for the last game of the season and Marty saying "goodbye." Then, miracle of miracles...he's back at the beginning of the pre-season like nothing happened. Was this a dream, or an actuality? If it was real, who was the almost-Marty?
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Would you be talking about Dick Carlson? Dick Wagner put him in the booth in 1980 as a "punishment" to Marty and Joe
 
radio08 said:
brian65 said:
I'm thinking that, behind the scenes, that broadcast team is a shambles.

Keep the Cowboy, end the Brennaman primogeniture asap.
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Not even close to being a shambles. I've said it before and I'll say it again, whether you want to believe it or not, both Brennamans get along great with the Cowboy.
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I do believe that...in fact I don't really get where people think that there is any friction between the Cowboy and the Killer B's...that isn't something i have ever thought of...in fact, Marty has spoken very highly of the Cowboy in radio interviews he's done on sports talk stations in recent days saying something like "God knew what He was doing by sending me Thom Brennaman and Jeff Brantley, I think he knew I would need them when Joe went on..." something like that...and that was with a station in NY...so, I think he actually like Brantley.
 
The only annoying thing Marty does, in my opinion, is commercial, commercial, commercial, between every batter. I don't see that he has enough time left to piss off everyone like you claim. He's so bad, I rarely listen.

I listen to all the other teams on my XM radio, and NO other team is this bad with commercials.
 
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