(1) Greg Lucas (R) on play-by-play, with former pre-post game FOX partner Steve Sparks on the color side is my solid pick for first choice under the long-of-tooth hour circumstances that this decision is getting made. These guys were my first picks, anyway.
(2) Darrell Pittman (L) on play-by-play with Astros Daily partner Bob Hulsey (R) on color. The boys will spare us unnecessary words, but the ones they do use will be informative.
(3) Forrest Gump (R) on play-by-play with the Boys from Rome (L) on color. Great variety here. “They are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.”
(4) Graham McNamee: Assets – He will call a game on his own from an empty seat near the field of play and his style alone provides all the color the audience needs..
(5) The Munchkins: “We’ll call each game discretely! We’ll tell you oh-so-sweetly! How we lost each game completely!
(6) “Clockwork Orange” famous actor Malcolm McDowell will give the Astros all the tilt of his evil in-and-out kick to the groin voice tones for every failed inning of the 2013 season without ever batting an eye, and even if his venomous style sometimes even makes him sick too in the process, he will continue to spew ill winds.
- (7) Houston Texans owner Bob McNair is our back-up pick for those Astros game dates in which Malcolm McDowell is too ill to call the games. “I’m not evil like Malcolm,” McNair says, “but I’m a pretty good actor. Look at how sincere I sound when I express my belief in QB Matt Schaub!”
(8) Abbott and Costello: Costello the play-by-play man turns to his color man and asks: “OK, Abbott, I’m ready to set the defense. Who’s on first?” “That’s right,” Abbott answers.
(9) How about just going back to what worked so well at different times in the past? Bring back Dave Raymond (R) to do the play-by-play and Astros icon Larry Dierker (L) to do the color! – If a thing works really well, why do new folks have to try and fix it? And the answer is always “ego” – because new people in power always simply need to put their own fingerprints on everything they do just so the world will make note of their arrival and new station as, whatever, “The Sheikh of Araby!”.
The Pecan Park Eagle 
February 13, 2013 at 2:50 pm |
Being this close to Valentine’s Day I am afraid I will have to go with the “Box of chocolates” :>)
February 13, 2013 at 3:27 pm |
Raymof and Dierker …if they had sny sense
February 13, 2013 at 3:28 pm |
Raymond and Dierker is they had any sense
February 13, 2013 at 3:36 pm |
No radio crew in place yet? Why not just plug into the public address system at Minute Maid? Jim Crane can save money and listeners can enjoy the silky baritone of PA announcer Bob Ford. Let the moans and groans of the crowd fill in the rest of the broadcast since the outcome of most games already seems to be a foregone conclusion. What sort of deal with the devil did Crane and Selig reach to bring the Astros to this sordid place?
February 13, 2013 at 3:37 pm |
I am flattered to be mentioned but it would probably work better if I did the play-by-play and Darrell did the color. And we’d probably need a third man in the booth, so why not you?
February 13, 2013 at 4:35 pm |
Bob – To work wiith you guys, I’d accept the invitation in a heartbeat.
February 13, 2013 at 4:52 pm |
Dave Raymond was the BEST play by play guy the Astros have ever had, and I’ve heard every one of them. It was a travesty to get rid of him.
February 14, 2013 at 2:27 am |
My vote in this straw poll is for Raymond/Dierker….two of the best!!