Is it possible for him to not talk anymore in games? He is awful.

I don't really watch many Marlins games this season, but I hated him last year. He's inarticulate and says stupid things.

I think he just talks way too fast. Good announcers are slow enough that they make you feel very comfortable listening and can articulate their thoughts. When you have someone like Preston who talks really fast, it gives off sort of an amateurish nervous energy feeling to the broadcast.

He talks way too fast and way too much.

 

He also hates everything about #'s. Like I understand that analysts tend to talk about the times they played, but everything with him is about intangibles. He is the SomethingFishy of analysts. The Cardinals are good because of their personalities. Etc., etc.

 

Also, when they ask him to fill Craig Minervini's role, he actually still talks more than the guys in the booth. He dominates every conversation.

You're right, but I don't think any of the Marlins "analysts" are stats guys.....

How often is Preston in the booth? I'm watching tonight's game and he's really insufferable. Erick's right--he just talks way too much.

Can i hear an example?

Can i hear an example?

 

Any of SomethingFishys posts as read by a crack addict trying to sell you cheeseburgers.

I thought that was Floyd on tonight? I was watching some of it on mlb.tv free game of day.

 

 

Whoever it was....not very good.

Maybe that's why Rich is on assignment tonight, wink wink.

yet still he's better than Tim McCarver

He's like every other commentator. They aren't there for hardcore fans - or rather their analysis isn't

I guess, to be fair, Cliff Floyd might be worse. I honestly don't understand anything he (Floyd) says.

I wonder if any team employs a *stat* guy as the color guy (and I don't mean *he's got a knack for the rbi* kind of stats), I mean are they all ex-ballplayers?

Not really. Most of them just sit there and tell stories about their playing days. By the way some of them talk, you'd think they were good at baseball.

I don't think the problem is so much that he isn't a stats guy. He just dominates every second of airtime like Erick says. Last night Tommy Hutton was reading the scores from other MLB games around the league and part way through Preston interrupted him and started reading the scores himself.

 

I can tolerate non-stats guys as commentators if they are articulate, entertaining, know when to shut up, and not annoying. Preston Wilson is none of those things.

my wife said the same thing last night when we got home from work to watch the DVR of the game. a collective groan went up in our household when we saw P-Funk in the booth. Maybe we should be happy he talks so fast or else one piece of commentary from him might take the entire inning.

I didn't know Mookie Wilson was his stepfather and uncle.

 

That's some complicated s**t.

Not really. Most of them just sit there and tell stories about their playing days. By the way some of them talk, you'd think they were good at baseball.

 

 

I mean, Preston was pretty good. He was a 30/30 player at one point. Not many guys in the MLB that can say they've accomplished that today...

 

EDIT: I just looked up his career numbers, didn't realize he had an MVP-type 36 HR & 141 RBI season for Colorado in '03 (!) And his 2000 season with the Fish would be considered an MVP-type season in today's game (31 HR, 36 SB, 121 RBI).

Preston seems like a really nice guy, but yeah, he talks a lot and at a fast pace. Tommy isn't really a stats guy, but damn he's entertaining, especially when he's angry.

Preston Wilson is Vin Scully compared to Al Hrabosky.

I am laughing reading this thread because I think you critics are out of your minds. So, Preston Wilson talks fast. Big deal. He didn't go to announcer's school where they teach everyone to talk like Kevin Harlan or Mike Breen. He was busy playing baseball. He'll get better at that.

 

The reason I love Preston is for his knowledge and his wit. He has said dozens of things I have never, ever heard commentators talk about. I am 63 years old and have been listening to baseball announcers for more than 50 years. I am sick and tired of these talking heads, especially on ESPN and MLB.com, who have absolutely nothing to say. They just regurgitate the same old clichés over again. Nothing different that I have heard for 30 or 40 years. Totally boring. I cannot listen to most modern-day announcers without falling asleep.

 

As good as Tommy Hutton is, there is only so much knowledge he can impart. If you have been listening to Tommy his entire career, you can almost predict what he is going to say at any given moment. Again, I am not criticizing Hutton, I think he is terrific. But there are a finite and well-known group of comments emanating from his mouth.

 

Preston Wilson, on the other hand, provides insights from a former player that I have rarely, if ever heard before. Unique thoughts about what a player is thinking about at the plate. Pitchers and batters approaches when facing each other for the first time, and how they then think in subsequent at bats.

 

Plus, his stories about certain players and teams are very funny, and they are stories I have never heard before.

 

You guys are way too caught up about his less than classic delivery, but you are off-base. Last weekend when Rich Waltz was off Friday and Saturday, Hutton did play-by-play with Wilson and Jeff Conine in the booth. Now, we all love Jeff Conine, but he was practically a mute robot next to Preston. Many of his remarks were simply follow-ups to Wilson's.

 

I think that many of you critics are young and measure your broadcasters by guys like Jim Rome and Colin Herd, two young guys that are popular with young listeners but not-so-much with guys like me. While guys like Rome and Herd are easy to listen too, they have nothing original to say. Straight regurgitation of popular talking points.

 

I like announcers that I can learn something from, not guys who are slick talkers and masters of the cliché.

Did ... change his name here? ^^

Nope. I find Wilson to be annoying.

I like Preston *hides*