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I prefer listening to the San Diego Padres Radio while the watching the game on TV, picture only ~ TV's sound is muted.

But the talking picture-box was invented before I was born, so I didn't grow up only having a radio.

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Agree! Outside of being there, radio is the best way to take in a ballgame. Especially if you have a good play caller and a good color guy that aren’t afraid of a little silence when there’s no need for babble.

We finally cut the cord on Direct TV so no more MASN (Orioles games) We either listen on the radio (day games) or hit a restaurant with TV's to watch. We also follow online with the scores.

Bob Prince. The Gunner was a very colorful personality who happened to be one of the best, if not the very best, play by play men ever.
A Pittsburgh legend!
You could walk down the street on a hot summer night in every neighborhood and hear his voice resonate from a radio on nearly every porch.

Oriole fan here since 1966. Looks like another long year for us.

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Originally posted by BigCity:
We finally cut the cord on Direct TV so no more MASN (Orioles games) We either listen on the radio (day games) or hit a restaurant with TV's to watch. We also follow online with the scores.

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Originally posted by f2:
even the commercials are more tolerable than freak'n t.v.

I wish that was the case here, I think the radio is far worse. Every damn thing is "spondored by" someone. Every time a guy is safe, or reaches second, or a change is made there's a live read. Every time a guy scratches his ass or adjusts his cup, a live read. I pretty much stopped listening a few years ago.

(I stopped watching about 20 years ago because I refused to have a $120+ cable bill just so I can see the games. Baseball was one of the true loves of my life and they drove me away.)

Even though I like the Balt Orioles announcers and have since become a die hard fan since relocating to VA in Nov 2001, I will always be a Cincy Red at heart.

I grew up listening to the games with my family being announced by Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall.

Count me as another guy who grew up listening to Vin Scully calling the Dodger games on a little pocket AM radio. But I haven't paid attention to baseball in years.

Funny, never followed on the radio myself; but today if the neighbors are listening to a game I get a warm feeling of nostalgia and imagine myself a kid back in the 50’s.

In the summer my dad would come home for lunch, turn on the radio, lay on the couch and listen to Dizzy Dean game of the week. I remember Falstaff beer ads; a recording of beer being poured into a glass, the jingle: "Choicest product of the brewers art; always ask for Falstaff" and a word from Diz.

As kids we grew up listening to The voice of the University of KY Caywood Ledford broadcast the KY basketball games on AM radio after going to bed on our clock radios for games after bedtime. He broadcast the games from 1953 to 1992.

His style and colloquialisms were his hallmark, his trademark "Got it" was the phrase you leaned into hear when a shot went up, along with others like "A Beauty" "Bullseye" "Puts it up, and in" and others.

Caywood was the way most fans of the team saw the games, since tickets were impossible to obtain, and you really could get the image of the game and action from his broadcast...

Wish he was still doing the games so I could turn the volume off on Dook Vitale during TV broadcasts, thank god we don't have to play Pac12 teams because the only one worse than Vitale is Walton, neither would be a good radio play by play announcer...

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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
KMOX?

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Originally posted by smschulz:
As a kid I listened to the Cardinals everyday, Jack Buck & Jim Woods.
I often snuck a radio into class and ran an earphone plug up my arm.
Great memories.

Actually it was fed through the local station where I was from > KWPC I think?

Great memories of radio play by play.
“Kiss it goodbye”
“By a gnats eyelash”
“How sweet it is”
“Close as the fuzz on a ticks ear”
Many will know my field of dreams team.

I remember listening to the Indians on my grandfather's Milk parlor tube radio while visiting in the summer. Reds on my very own first transistor (under the covers for those late night west coast games). Now, we changed our DirecTV subscription so Mrs. M-11 could have her Hallmark channels and I lost the sports and I sit on the porch with my smart phone app. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Not so much baseball but the Indy 500 on AM back in the '60s in my backyard with the sun out, soft breeze, lounge chair, and iced lemonade.

1980s. Northern San Diego County. Warm summer nights working with my grandfather and grandmother in their avocado packing shed listening to the San Diego Padres games on the old radio.

Man they loved their baseball.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
I subscribe to MLB baseball audio only. $20 a year and you get every game plus you can choose either the home or away feed. Costs $20 a year and I consider that a bargain.

i like watching the condensed game videos - BONUS with no commercials!

MLB's game day audio is worth every penny. We're blessed here in Cleveland with Tom Hamilton. I listen to every game possible. When watching a game on TV I'll sync the radio feed to the TV.

I like listening to baseball and football on the radio. This past football season I spent every Sunday working in the garage with a game on. It was much nicer than sitting inside watching it.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sleepla8er:
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I prefer listening to the San Diego Padres Radio while the watching the game on TV, picture only ~ TV's sound is muted.

But the talking picture-box was invented before I was born, so I didn't grow up only having a radio.

Heck yeah, I did the same back when when Howard Cosell was doing so much NFL. I just could not stand to here his silliness, so would go through some gyrations to find a radio broadcast and mute the TV. Much, much more enjoyable to me.