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From: pellegri@ittral.UUCP (Dan Pellegrino)
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Subject: Phil Rizzuto
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 18:11:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 18:11:35 1985
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Yes, Phil Rizzuto is biased.  Yes, he's emotional, too.  He also known baseball.
Some people are very cool, sophisticated observers of the game of baseball.
Others get quite emotionally involved, sitting on the edge of their chairs
with tension filling their bodies as every pitch is delivered.  When watching
the game of the week or most other major league games (especially National
League games), I fall into the first catagory; however, when watch the
Yankees, those wonderful Bronx Bombers, I quickly fall into catagory two.  I
get pinstripe fever.  I feel as though I'm on the mound or at the plate.  My
heart thumps.  I enjoy it when someone else gets excited with me.  That's why
its great when Phil Rizzuto does the play-by-play.  He could do it for nine
innings and I would love it.  Sure he's biased.  He's the announcer for the
Yankees, not for Major League Baseball.  His audience is a Yankee audience,
not a Met audience or a Red Sox audience.  Those who can't handle it when he
is on the air might want to choose to do one of the following:

	a.) If you're watching it on tv, turn the tv sound down and turn on 
            the radio sound (he never broadcasts on both at once).

	b.) If you're listening to it on the radio, turn it off for three
            innings and get caught-up with the game when Bill White or Frank 
            Messer is on.

I, for one, thoroughly enjoy his announcing, just as I enjoy enthusiastic
conversation about the Yankees with any avid Yankee fan.  I would be
interested in hearing from any out there who are real Yankee fans and who
truly dislike Phil Rizzuto.  Those who aren't Yankee fans and dislike Phil
Rizzuto...who cares what you think? :-)

-Dan Pellegrino
 ittvax!ittral!pellegri

Never count out dem Yanks!
innings.