A sports narrator has died and the town drops to its knees??

[xray]

Well Boo-Hoo a sports announcer in Phila. has passed away. I Fell sorry for the family for their loss first of all, A death of a person is never a pleasant thing. My point here is to highlight the grieving process that the folks in this area are going through. The City of Phila has spent alot of time and money that they are screaming they dont have on memorials and police escorts for this persons corpse, All the while they are closing firehouses and talking of laying off law enforcement. This was no hero, this was someone who narrated a silly game of chase the ball by grown men to beer drinking couch potatoes who dont have the intelligence to see whats going on without it being explained to them. When is someone going to question this waste of money and resources for such foolish needs.And to those who have a tear in theyre eyes for the loss of someone who they have never met or has never made a contribution to society like a Police man fireman or something worthwhile ,Get a grip!!

[Polite24]

The people in Philadelphia listened to that guy for a lot of years, and probably have a lot of memories of childhood or summer memories of listening to Phillies games with him announcing.

For baseball fans, baseball is one of the things that define Summer.

[Fat Man]

The people in Philadelphia listened to that guy for a lot of years, and probably have a lot of memories of childhood or summer memories of listening to Phillies games with him announcing.

For baseball fans, baseball is one of the things that define Summer.

What defined summer for me was sitting in the shade of a tree with a rod and reel and pulling in some fish, or a swim at a beach, or camping up in a pine forest up in the mountains and sitting around a camp fire late at night, or traveling across country seeing the Black Hills, the Devil's Tower, Yellowstone National Park or the Grand Canyon.

Camping trips, and traveling across country, that is what defined my summers.

Not sitting in the bleachers under a scorching hot sun watching a bunch of monkey-boys chasing a ball and paying an outrageously high price for crappy food and watered-down beer!

So, you may put a sock in it!!! JIMBO!!!

[xray]

Boring sports bore!!!

[Ray]

I hesitate to comment on someone's death because that's a terrible thing but I know what you mean. A sports commentator and he's treated like he was a former president or something. I'm surprised they didn't have a frikkin' horse-drawn carriage and a parade. I don't get it.

It's the same way for all things sports-related. We recently had a terrible car crash in our town where four teenagers were killed. One of the kids happened to be a high school "athlete" and that just doubled the tragedy according to the media --OMG --an athlete!

WHEN did being an "athlete" become such a noble state of being? WHY does it merit automatic reverence and respect? In my experience, the guys who played football were nothing special. In fact, they were the boys who meekly followed their fathers' expectation that they play ball. The status quo. The lack of having anything better to do. And of course, the attempt to compensate for not being able to do anything else, especially school work.