todays broadcast tandem is much better without thompson

[jbrach]

I hope we hear more of these 2 guys without thompson...thompson seems like a noce guy but he is so overly earnest and childlike that it is enough to make me turn down the sound

[DBarr]

By 1000 percent!!!!!!!!!

[redbirdfan51]

By 1000 percent!!!!!!!!!

1001 per cent

[MIDMOBIRDTWO]

Sweeney is a big improvement over Brad. Not a cheerleader, he delivers facts and very professionally.

[60 year Cardinal fan]

Yes to the above.

[Bad14]

Yes. Not even close.

[TheFantasyStud]

I actually like Brad Thomas. I don’t know if anyone more quick whited then he. I get that many don’t like his humor all the time but it doesn’t bother me.
Then again, I liked Edmonds and Dan too. I think I just love listening to baseball.

[jbrach]

we all love listening to baseball but some broadcasters are better than others...todays tandem allowed me to leave the sound on...that is my criteria...also having a serious sidekick made carey better...he didnt feel the need to try to match the silly childish nonsense of thomson...it was just more professional today

[icon]

Don't know. With the VPN and MLB TV, I tune in to the opponent's broadcasts to get far away from BT.

[Pink Freud]

we all love listening to baseball but some broadcasters are better than others...todays tandem allowed me to leave the sound on...that is my criteria...also having a serious sidekick made carey better...he didnt feel the need to try to match the silly childish nonsense of thomson...it was just more professional today

Come on, guys, not to be a grammar Nazi, but if we're fans we should know how to spell their names: It's Chip Caray, not Carey; and Brad Thompson, not Thomson or Thomas. This is not Mike Krzyzewski territory.

Many years ago I was part of a KMOX round table with Jeff Gordon and a few others. One fan called in to rip then-GM "Dell Maxwell", whom the caller claimed to also know personally. Not personally enough, however, to get either his first or last name right, despite being a public figure. All of us on the panel had our heads in our hands.

I've grown this weekend to like Mark Sweeney. Another poster likened Thompson to sounding like a used-car salesman; just too slick and polished, when Jim Edmonds wasn't polished enough behind a mic. Then again , Edmonds complained about too little training. It showed.

At least our TV crew is not like that godawful pair currently debasing some SF Giants games --- obviously, not the great Jon Miller, nor the (OK) Duane Kuiper or Mike Krukow --- , whom I sometimes hear on the MLB Network's morning recap. Whomever this pair is, they are downright unlistenable. You'd think before hiring people for such a high-profile job, the powers that be might LISTEN to them first.

[82birds]

Yes. Not even close.

this ^

I use mute button liberally when Brad is on