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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Phil Rizzuto
Message-ID: <1576@hao.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 17:27:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 17:27:10 1985
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> 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,

  I agree, but what you say is not strictly true. We get the Yankees' games 
here in *Denver* on the local independent station. The fans here are 
*desperate* for major league baseball, and will even stoop as low as to watch
Yankees' games in spite of the fact that Coloradoans do not generally like
easterners (the ratings are apparently fairly good for the games). I agree
that Rizzuto is a *Yankee* announcer, which is why *I* don't like him. I
agree he's great if you are a Yankee fan. We also do not have the options
you suggested here.

> 	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).

  We don't get the radio broadcast here.
> 
> 	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 

  Same as a) above.

--Greg
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