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Oct042009
Sunday Baseball Classic: The Best Announcer's Prediction...Ever
Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 8:13
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First, let's emphasize that baseball is infinitely superior to wasting five days of your life on a cricket match.
Now, let's illustrate why. In what other sport can you find a player, in his big moment on the field, predicting exactly what he is going to, as the famous Babe Ruth did in 1932 when he pointed beyond center field and then launched a home run there? Or find an announcer going one better and, hours before the game, telling the audience that a new player was going to hit his first home run...into a particular location...on a particular at-bat...on a particular pitch?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b494dinhd4Y[/youtube]
Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help Enduring America Expand Its Coverage and Analysis
First, let's emphasize that baseball is infinitely superior to wasting five days of your life on a cricket match.
Now, let's illustrate why. In what other sport can you find a player, in his big moment on the field, predicting exactly what he is going to, as the famous Babe Ruth did in 1932 when he pointed beyond center field and then launched a home run there? Or find an announcer going one better and, hours before the game, telling the audience that a new player was going to hit his first home run...into a particular location...on a particular at-bat...on a particular pitch?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b494dinhd4Y[/youtube]
