Showing posts with label len kasper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label len kasper. Show all posts

Game 285 - Pittsburgh Pirates at Chicago Cubs

September 25 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL
ABC 7

I made a promise to myself to avoid Len Kasper for the remainder of the season, and I make sure I keep my promises about Len Kasper. So Friday afternoon (3-2 Pirates' win) we're doing a Mute Mix.

The Who - Quadrophenia
Duke Ellington - Uptown
Supremes - I Hear a Symphony
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
Phil Collins  - No Jacket Required
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Chuck Berry - Maybelline
Berlin Philharmonic - Gustav Holst: The Planets
Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy on the French Riviera
Shangri-Las - Best of the Shangri-Las

Game 275 - St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs

September 18 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL
ABC 7

Starlin Castro tied a career-high with 7 RBIs, homering twice (two-run shot in the fifth, three-run shot an inning later) in an 8-3 Cubs' victory, but a more important moment occurred in the top of the ninth. 

Now, Len Kasper & Jim Deshaies aren't the most popular announcing team in baseball (my father, a lifelong Cubs fan, has often hoped lightning would strike the broadcast booth, perhaps a bit "extreme", but you get the point). Deshaies uses phrases like "beak high" and "squirrely hop", and Kasper just isn't a very good play-by-play man. In the ninth, Cubs were an out away, crowd was on its feet & it was loud at Wrigley. The cameras got a quick shot of this young man


















Kasper: "Sums it up right there, that shot."

Pardon me, Len? WHAT sums up WHAT?

We have a kid with a sticker on his forehead eating frozen lemonade. I personally think this particular photo sums up a summer day for a 10-year old kid who may have watched a couple innings of a Cubs game, but otherwise ate frozen lemonade and put stickers on his forehead.

I think what Len Kasper really meant was Len Kasper commenting the way he did about this photo sums up listening to Len Kasper for 3 1/2 hours.