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02-07-08 10:27 AM #1
4 more years of Hawk Harrelson
Well the White Sox FINALLY signed somebody
Unfortunately it is the Hawk
The Chicago Sun-Times could use a copy editor
Hawk Harrelson received a three-year extension from the Blackhawks to keep him in the White Sox television booth through at least the 2011 season.
Harrelson, 66, has worked White Sox games for 23 years, including 19 in a row.
Hawk's favorite columnist explodes
BY JAY MARIOTTI Sun-Times Columnist
Ensuring that illiteracy remains in the Chicago sports media for four more years, the White Sox have handed a contract extension to alleged broadcaster Ken (Hawk) Harrelson. This means listeners in an otherwise sophisticated town will be punished with more hillbilly twang, which is almost as embarrassing as Harrelson's .239 career batting average and his short-term flop as the general manager who fired Tony La Russa.
I see fields of green, Veeck's pinwheel lights
Cubs lose by day, Sox win at night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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02-07-08 02:55 PM #2
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Seriously... People gripe about Kay all the time and there are plenty of annoying broadcasters in teh world of sports, but how on earth can anyone not named Ken HarrelsonsMom enjoy listening to long spurts of silence iterspersed with jabber and the ever enjoyable "he gone"???
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02-07-08 03:59 PM #3
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Originally Posted by chisox
His career batting average was .239, but his career OPS+ was 109. Not a bad (playing) career at all.
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02-07-08 05:58 PM #4
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Mariotti is to writers what Hawk is to broadcasters.
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02-07-08 06:05 PM #5
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& the balance of power shifts from KC's signing of Jose Guillen back to the White Sox
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02-07-08 06:13 PM #6
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Re: 4 more years of Hawk Harrelson
Damn, I was hoping "he gone."
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02-07-08 08:29 PM #7
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BY JAY MARIOTTI Sun-Times Columnist
Ensuring that illiteracy remains in the Chicago sports media for four more years, the White Sox have handed a contract extension to alleged broadcaster Ken (Hawk) Harrelson. This means listeners in an otherwise sophisticated town will be punished with more hillbilly twang, which is almost as embarrassing as Harrelson's .239 career batting average and his short-term flop as the general manager who fired Tony La Russa.
Ahhh, the only acceptable bigotry left...anti-southernism....unreal...would Marriotti ever write that "Harrelsoni talks like a dumb ginzo hood?" How about "McHarrelson, who often sounds like the drunken Irishman that he is....".as an Irish-American myself, I'd be pissed.....but feel free to call someone a redneck or a hillbilly, and imply that he's dumb by reason of your own supposed "sophistication"...I could go on, but why bother....Harrelson may not be a good announcer, but Mariotti is a bigot."I'm sorry Smokey, you were over the line, that's a foul....mark it zero Dude, next frame"
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02-07-08 09:45 PM #8
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Originally Posted by Bronson'sCornrows
I see fields of green, Veeck's pinwheel lights
Cubs lose by day, Sox win at night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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02-08-08 02:16 AM #9
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I wonder what I would think of Hawk if he was the announcer for a team I like. He definitely is the most annoying announcer to listen to now though, when the team you root for is facing the White Sox. But how bad is he when he's your announcer?
“I mean, people knew that Brown was out there, and that Randy was ornery all the time. And Pavano is whoever he is. But if you’re their manager, you can’t go out and write about them like that.”
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02-08-08 03:40 AM #10
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Originally Posted by Rice14
You can put it on the board, yes.
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02-08-08 06:05 AM #11
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His HR call of White Sox is the worst I've ever heard.
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02-08-08 10:11 AM #12
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Originally Posted by Bronson'sCornrows
"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." -Bill Veeck
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02-08-08 10:24 AM #13
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Originally Posted by Meecham4ever
I've been Mariotti-free for a months and proud of it."I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." -Bill Veeck
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02-08-08 12:11 PM #14
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Marriotti thinks he is Mike Lupica.
BTW Yankees fans really can not complain about Hawk too much as you still have Dame Edna in the booth. How can you put up with her and Sterling for 162 games?
I see fields of green, Veeck's pinwheel lights
Cubs lose by day, Sox win at night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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02-08-08 12:15 PM #15
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Originally Posted by chisox
"Leave it to Yankees fans to be upset at having too many great players.”—Hitman23
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02-08-08 12:18 PM #16
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I think I can safely speak for most intelligent baseball fans when I say:
UGH.-- 1.25.06, Steve Buckley, Boston Herald on Theo's return to the Red Sox
"It took several different statements, on several different pages, to announce that everyone is on the same page."
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02-08-08 12:34 PM #17
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Originally Posted by chisox
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02-08-08 04:44 PM #18
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Originally Posted by JeffWeaverFan
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02-08-08 05:25 PM #19
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Originally Posted by chisox
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02-08-08 05:44 PM #20
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I've said this before in other threads, but Suzyn doesn't bother me.
I may be in the minority on that one, but to each his (or her
) own. I'll even turn on John and Suzyn on XM or MLB.com and listen to them when I'm getting out of town broadcasters on the EI package (I can sync the audio and video with my TiVo).
Hawk, on the other hand, I can't take AT ALL (and DJ doesn't help either). As a baseball nut living in Chicago, I'll turn on a Cubs or Sox game when there's nothing else to watch. But Hawk kills Sox games for me every time. I'd rather listen to nails on a blackboard. (Sorry if that mental image just made anyone shiver...).
HeidiLast edited by MunsonNY15; 02-08-08 at 08:49 PM.
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02-08-08 08:03 PM #21
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Re: 4 more years of Hawk Harrelson
Originally Posted by JeffWeaverFan
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02-08-08 08:04 PM #22
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Re: 4 more years of Hawk Harrelson
Originally Posted by chisox
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02-08-08 09:03 PM #23
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I don't know anything about Mariotti. I'll take people's word for it that he's got all these bad qualities.
Am I still allowed to agree with him that Harrelson is the very worst broadcaster there has ever been?
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02-08-08 09:07 PM #24
Re: 4 more years of Hawk Harrelson
Originally Posted by MunsonNY15
I see fields of green, Veeck's pinwheel lights
Cubs lose by day, Sox win at night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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02-09-08 01:35 AM #25
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Originally Posted by chisox
“I mean, people knew that Brown was out there, and that Randy was ornery all the time. And Pavano is whoever he is. But if you’re their manager, you can’t go out and write about them like that.”
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