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Gary Cohen joins several also excellent broadcasters (plus John Sterling) on this year’s Ford C. Frick Award ballot.

https://baseballhall.org/frickaward2025

Look't Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper up against each other head-to-head.

There are a lot good candidates to be runners-up to Gary… except for Skip Carey who might have been the worst announcer in history. He’s the worst Carey (other than Harry) and that’s saying a lot. He’s the worst Braves announcer in the last 20 years and that’s saying a lot.

Skip Caray and Sterling are clowns and unworthy of being considered.

Hard to handicap the rest of the field. I have liked Dave Sims quite a bit as well when I’ve heard his work.

Bob Prince sucked too


Go Gary!

Gary sounds like Kermit the Frog.

And you sound like a broken record

Cowtipper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 8:16 pm Gary sounds like Kermit the Frog.

nah, gary's rendition of rainbow connection is far better.

tangentially, i would love to watch a national baseball game announced by actual muppets. it would be so much better a use of the disney brand than the usual espn sock puppets.

It's a good and deep field. I lived in the Bay Area for 15 years and Kuiper and Krukow are fantastic--like GKR level good. Is there a limit on how many can get the award in a given year (I have no idea if it's one only), that may work to Gary's favor. I cant see one getting it and not the other, and they kinda sorta cancel each other out in a "split ticket" type of scenario. Dave Sims is phenomenal and I suspect he will get in this year or soon thereafter, same with Gary.

Nine of them have the added bonus of not being John Sterling.

It's a fraternity, though, and we probably have to be prepared for the notion that Sterling gets the nod just based on seniority. The J. Taylor Spink Award (which I don't think is called that anymore) has gone to both Bill Madden and Bill Conlin, who both kind of j. taylor stink.

And in the same vein, Ken Harrelson got the Frick award recently.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 9:46 am Nine of them have the added bonus of not being John Sterling.

It's a fraternity, though, and we probably have to be prepared for the notion that Sterling gets the nod just based on seniority. The J. Taylor Spink Award (which I don't think is called that anymore) has gone to both Bill Madden and Bill Conlin, who both kind of j. taylor stink.

Yeah i agree , John is probably very much beloved by his fellow broadcasting brothers and sisters

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 7:40 am And you sound like a broken record

It's a bad habit of mine.

All second to Gary