Dave Sims joins M’s broadcast team
DMZ · January 6, 2007 at 12:58 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Does college football, college basketball, and CBS NFL. You can hear him call the Giants-Eagles game tomorrow. He did ESPN baseball in the 1990s.
Wow, he’s got a substantial Wikipedia page. I didn’t even need to research this. Hooray for sloth.
Seems much more like a play-by-play guy than a color man, though lest we forget Fairly did pick up some substantial chunk of that work during the season, especially around Niehaus’ annual mid-season vacation.
No Reynolds, though. I wonder if they couldn’t work out the money or what happened.
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Does this mean that he was brought on board to replace Ron Fairly?
Or is he the replacement for Niehaus — when he retires after getting into the Hall of Fame? Dave just makes too many errors the past few years.
Raapba
You mean when Niehaus says “And that ball is belted!…DEEP to right fie…and the second baseman throws him out”
Power just back. Check USSM first before all else. Is this a reasonable change?
maybe Harold thinks he needs to concentrate on his lawsuit.
he did talk to the Ms’ , and googling Harold under ‘news’, you find (once you get past Deadspin’s ookie Salisbury story) that the Nats also talked to him about a job
a column on Sims:
Hooray for sloth? Hooray for competence, too. That should make a nice change.
I wonder, though, why he’d want the job?
Maybe he’s bored after finishing “Cerebus.”
http://odeo.com/audio/237693/play
Dave Sims comes in at 5:45
Here’s a better one:
http://blog.chargers.com/2005/12/you_gotta_have_hart.html
He comes in at :15. Maybe Raapba has a good point in the first post.
Guess he beat out Ted Robinson. It would me nice to have a couple of audio links hearing the two doing baseball. I’ve heard Sims do football. He really sounds like a football guy to me, so I don’t know how well he’s going to translate into baseball. I’m skeptical, but open minded.
5: Hopefully his magic extends into making 25 run blowouts interesting as well.
……and describing how the Mariners got better this offseason
Hopefully he won’t be a lapdog for ownership/the FO, I’d say.
yeah, because those independent-minded team broadcasters are so common.
The last thing I want to hear is a football guy. Presumably he’ll be pounding on about toughness and makeup and gritting it out all season long.
well, FWIW, he isn;t just a football guy.
hey Deanna, any chance you remember this?
Well, considering he’s replacing Ron Friggin’ Fairly, anything is better than that.
I welcome a new voice in open arms. Could be the new play-by-play guy once Neihaus finally decides to retire.
Is he the guy doing play by play in the Jets Pats game right now or the color guy? I just woke up and tuned in.
This play by play guy is fond of describing injuries by body part only. As in “Rodney Harrison is out with a knee.”
See the original post for what game he’s working.
Whoops, sorry about that DMZ. My brain saw Giants Eagles but with the tv tuned to Pats Jets and my half awake state I processed it completely wrong.
Wow that’s a departure from The Jesus Lizard. I guess guess you can only see David Yow’s naked arse so often before you want to get a real job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wm._Sims
I don’t think he was doing the Jints-Iggles game, though; at least, the broadcasters were addressing each other as Joe and Troy.
he was on the radio side — FWIW, he called a football game so that you could visualize what was happening (at least to someone with a limited grasp of football…)
ok, so the LA Times has the M’s interested in Erstad, the Denver Post thinks the
M’s have made an offer to Brian Lawrence, and RJ has agreed to an extension with Arizona, which means win no. 300 will come as a Snake, and pretty much should seal the whole HOF/D’back hat thing…
Erstad? How much grittier can the Mariners get without just tearing the grass out of Safeco and playing in the dirt?
It sounds like Brian Lawrence is generating enough interest from around the league to demand guaranteed money, somewhere between $2 and $3 million. The Rockies have room in their rotation and are rumored to be showing the most interest; plus Lawrence prefers the NL West and he grew up in Denver. Sorry Bavasi. Not gonna happen.
I’ve heard the guy call a couple games on ESPN. He’s not bad.
#25– FWIW–
Today’s Seattle Times says:
Rizzs working radio mostly? That’s a good reason not to tune into KOMO radio. They could go one step further and have him broadcast via the telegraph medium. Or maybe smoke signals.