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Surprised that MLB actually refunded me the cost of the MLBat package($29.99). Really thought I would enjoy listening to the games on the radio while playing OOTP, but that was before I learned that they repeat the same commercials over and over and over each half inning. I started keeping a sheet of paper in front of me so I could keep track. One day I had heard the same Graybar Tools ad 15 times by the start of the 5th inning. I was emailing MLB after each half inning to give them updates. I heard an xfinity ad over 20 times during a 9 inning game.
Oh and I think the final straw was the Tigers having Craig Monroe on the radio this past weekend. Funny thing is, the Bobby Scales guy he was filling in for, may be even worse than Monroe. Scales has trouble finishing his thoughts. He gets started and then about a sentence in, it's like he hits a wall and has to think about what he was even talking about. Sometimes he does, but other times it's just a unmade point. He also is one of those tools that thinks being an analyst is simply describing the same play the play by play guy just described in a less coherent way. So a guy hits a single. Dickerson describes it. Scales then describes it again as he saw it. How these tools get hired is beyond me.
I really think the best announcing takes place in the minor league. Reason being, they don't hire ex athletes as much. More often than not it's just 2 guys that went to broadcasting school.
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