Sorry for the two day silence. Sunday I drove my kid Iggy back to UCLA and Monday I drove back. But I have one thought early this morning.
Good for Ted Robinson. I have known the guy forever and I like him. Here's what he brings to a 49er broadcast.
The highest level of preparation and knowledge.
The right kind of seriousness.
He leans to the home team but does not root.
He describes action well.
He is a smart analyst.
He is sophisticated -- the right kind of announcer for the Bay Area.
He is a good replacement for Joe Starkey We will miss Joe, but still can hear him on Cal games.
Lowell -- maybe you could ask the Raiders if they would consider having Al Davis be the permanent "color guy" on the Raiders radio broadcasts? Over the last few years I have seen TV shots of Al Davis at various Raider games sitting in the darkened back row of a sky box starring out at the action on the field like Al Pacino in in boathouse in Godfather I -- looking really, really "dont f++K with me" mean.
I think Al Davis could easily become a fantastic "Voice of the Raiders" (like Bill King was when he used to do the old Warrior games) -- especially with a little encourangement from someone of your stature.
actually the more appropiate comment is that lowell says he thinks ted pulls but doesn't root for the home team@@@@!!!!! must be lowells type of rooting- when a knbr caller asked moonbeam robinson what he thought of the fired up raiders- moonbeam said he didn't follow them and really folowed the niners!!!! but in good lowell standard, he ripped the raiders!
Too funny, lowells is such a hypocrite!
Ted Robinson is a great choice. He was good on the Giants games. I don't know where the "Moonbeam" slur comes from. Robinson is a pretty level-headed, insightful broadcaster.
My only wish is that the radio broadcasts were timed to play with the telecasts so that I could listen on the radio while I watched with the TV sound down.
It may be because different cable systems and networks, etc., have different delays, you know, bouncing signals off satellites, but it seems to me that since Comcast owns 95% of the world that the engineers at KNBR should try to sync up the radio with the Comcast signal. I would guess something like a five-second delay would be about right. If you are just listening to a game a couple of seconds later makes no difference. But if you are watching, listening to the radio guy telling you what is about to happen an instant later is discombobulating.
If KNBR syncs up the signal I would guess that they could double their listenership during the games.