starting pt. of 0
+15 for the mullet

I actually like Dan, as he makes the broadcasts bearable – sometimes entertaining – for me.

Dan carries him

I only enjoy him when he gets into his little spats w/ Dan.

so bad he makes Dan unbearable. I always hope it is the other teams announcers when watching a game. well, Unless it is the Pirate crew. Bob Walk is worse than Al. So Al gets a 5 that leaves room below him for Walk. I suggest that the get rid of Al and if Dan is still unbearable get rid of him too.

I don’t watch enough games to be able to score him too low, but I have hated his broadcasting for as long as I can remember. He gets no redemption for his playing years cause I’m too young to remember them.

If Al was a national guy would he be as bad as Joe Morgan?

He’s absolutely brutal as an announcer and yet, for me, thoroughly entertaining as a person. The whole insanity of his antics on the mound to the wearing of a Gypsy Rose of Death ring to ward off werewolves. He’s a lunatic after my own heart. I think the dust ups with Dan are because he misses the confrontations from his playing days.

He’d stomp off the mound toward second base, eyes blazing, the fury practically seeping through his uniform as he turned his back to the hitter who was left waiting at the plate until he was done working himself into an altered state he called his “controlled hate routine,” then whirled around, pounding the ball into his glove while the home crowd generally went nuts.

Occasionally, so would an opposing batter, like Bill Madlock, who on one occasion waited until Hrabosky finished his routine, then walked to the on-deck circle for some pine tar to apply to his bat. He stepped back in, Hrabosky went into his routine again, Madlock went back to the circle, the umpire called a strike when Hrabosky threw the ball to a vacant batter’s box, and a brawl was set off.

And to think he might be in the Hall of Fame if only allowed to throw the “Hungo”.

This pitch, thrown in the 230 mph range by Al, was outlawed by organized baseball and deemed totally unhittable.

Poor guy got the whole Amaury Marti treatment. But all that doesn’t make up for the assault on the ears that is him calling a game.

I’ll go 38.16039027% (And C70, you need to be careful. Telling me to “go out as far as you like” is pretty dangerous, I’m already way out there as is.)

15% for nostalgia factors = 45%

I am afraid that I will be an outlier with my approval rating of 70% which is a C-. My take is that I “don’t mind Al and Dan”. I agree with others that the banter b/t the two is sometimes entertaining. Dan is never mean-spirited, but it’s fun to see him make fun of Al occasionally. So I give Al credit for putting up with that. Actually, I am not sure that Al “gets it” most of the time. Dan and Al are a pair of harmless homers, and they don’t pretend to be objective about things. Do I prefer Al over Steve Phillips? Yessss. I can think of a dozen people worse than Al.

dude was crazy, and it was awesome. just wish i could have seen him pitch

(i like ’em….)

Except for those wonderful days when Joe Buck would show up.

75.

Rarely interesting, frequently intolerable.

it made me happy.

60%

I personally really like his style. He’s wacky sometimes, but it just adds to the fun.

He’s really not good at any style. His stories are long, boring, and have little payoff at the end.

Al doesn’t talk about much, and when he does, it’s not really something we don’t know or something that isn’t obvious. He knows his pitching, but Dan carries him throughout the broadcast.

and grade from 0-100, but this guy is so awful and has annoyed me for so long I am going to have to go with a negative 0. Just a total waste – he should be doing Royals games.

I hate him so much I decided to pick a random low number and went w/ that. So there.

originally I gave him 25 points for not being Joe Morgan, but I then took away 20 points for not being as good as a comedic punch line as Joe Morgan. then i took gave him two thumbs down for being a complete pessimist but still demonstrating an uncanny ability to be an unrealistic optimist when evaluating other random players. He also gets a frowny face for making any given night of baseball broadcasting turn into what seems like the awkward precursor to a domestic disturbance. But, I will have to give him a golden star for holding Joe Morgan to a .611 ops in his playing days. Add that all up and he gets a .075/13.

Big Al got an overall of 53.8939%. Big splits, though, as VEB’s rating was 36.7473 and all others were 76.04167.