Outdoor Hockey

[Josh '99]

[Q]Trotsky Wrote:
NY is one of the few places where the announcers are not homers.  In one-team towns, an announcer who doesn't actively pull for the hometeam doesn't keep his job for long.[/q]Let's be honest here.  Tim McCarver lost his job with the Mets because he wasn't enough of a homer.

[Trotsky]

I thought McCarver got into a pissing contest over perks and his "national profile"?  (c.f. Olbermann)

The guys in the booth know who pays them, but, dependng on the team, there are varying degrees of independence when it comes to actually calling the game.  On one pole you've got organizations like Boston where it's sacrilege to ever call into question the paranoid homer view of reality: the other team/fans/player/manager are always The Villain.  On the other pole are the organizations which allow criticism.  The Mets' radio crew delights in finding fault with home players and management, and the Atlanta TV crew, although infantile when they're pitching to the good ol' boy Hooters crowd, can also be even-handed when they're actually talking baseball.