Roughly four years ago now, the present author facilitated a crowdsourcing project designed to place a “grade” on each of the league’s television and radio broadcast teams. The results weren’t intended to represent the objective quality or skill of the relevant announcers, but rather to provide a clue as to which broadcast teams are likely to appeal most (or least) to the readers of this site.
The results of that original exercise have been useful as a complement to the dumbNERD scores published by the author in these pages. Four years later, however, they’ve become much less useful. In the meantime, a number of the broadcast teams cited in that original effort have changed personnel. It’s possible that the tastes of this site’s readers have changed, also.
Recently, the author published an updated version of the television rankings according to the site’s readership. This week: the results of that same exercise, but for radio broadcasts.
Below are the 20th- through 11th-ranked radio-broadcast teams, per the FanGraphs readership.
But first, three notes:
- Teams are ranked in ascending order of Overall rating. Overall ratings are notmerely averages of Charisma and Analysis.
- The author has attempted to choose reader comments that are either (a) illustrative of the team’s place in the rankings or (b) conspicuously amusing.
- A complete table of ratings will appear in these pages on Thursday, unless they appear later than that.
I would have given them a 4 but the audio always sounds like Freed is a DJ at a strip club with the combination of his voice cadence and the audio inside the Trop.
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