Grand Salami Time
Sports nut Seth over at Seattlest has a nice little rant up today about the Baseball Hall of Fame giving our own Seattle Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus the shaft yet again.
Personally, I think Niehaus has been slipping some the past couple seasons (a thought made all the more unpleasant given my rather severe hatred for Rick Rizzs), but he certainly deserves to go to Cooperstown.
I have to agree with pretty much everything you said. I grew up listening to Gene Elston, who is fine, but really there's no comparison. And yes, Dave is slipping a bit. His voice is hoarser, and sometimes his poetic waxings are plucked right off the random tree. But still, I've heard no one better at calling a game. He can still give me goosebumps.
Fuck the Hall.