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From: gates@bdmrrr.UUCP (Al Gates)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Announcers and 1980 Cy Young Award
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 08:05:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 08:05:50 1985
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> 1) Harry Caray is not a great announcer, BUT he is a totally different
> personality - one that goes done in history.
> 
> 2) Steve Stone is one of the worst announcers I've heard.
> 
I completely agree with your assessment of Harry Caray.  However, I believe
Steve Stone is a good broadcaster.  He provides decent strategic analysis
and just enough statistics to properly describe a player's performance without
boring you.

Just a side note about Steve Stone--I'm glad he's in the broadcast booth instead
of on the field.  I'm still burning about the decision in 1980 to give him
the Cy Young Award 25-7 3.40 (or so) over Mike Norris 22-9 2.54.  Mike Norris
was simply awesome that year and pitched for .500 team.  Steve Stone pitched
for a ballclub that won 100 games.  Mike Norris will probably never get another
chance to win that award.  There has been a tendency to give Baltimore/New York
pitchers the Cy Young award in recent years (last fifteen).

-- 
Al Gates
BDM Corporation                 {seismo,rlgvax}!bdmrrr!gates
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McLean, Virginia  22102

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