Driving with my pooch to the dog park this afternoon reminded me baseball season is approaching fast. The radio said as much, as it was my first opportunity to hear some spring training play-by-play of the Athletics' 6-3 win over Colorado in Phoenix. There's never too much to get excited about in exhibition baseball games, though Josh Reddick and Brandon Moss each homered and Tommy Milone threw a couple of scoreless innings.
But what was fun about catching a couple innings of audio was the banter among A's announcers Ray Fosse, Ken Korach and Vince Cotroneo. What's about fun play-by-play in baseball is you have to fill air space during a sport that even in the most tense of situations still maintains a level of passive moments. So Fosse, Korach and Cotroneo did what good baseball radio guys do best: You enjoyed their recollections of spending together so many March afternoons and evenings in Arizona. There was a Bill King memory, an encounter with Bob Feller, some good-natured jabbering to each other.
It was a reminder of how low-key baseball can be, especially on lazy and meaningless spring training Saturdays.
But what was fun about catching a couple innings of audio was the banter among A's announcers Ray Fosse, Ken Korach and Vince Cotroneo. What's about fun play-by-play in baseball is you have to fill air space during a sport that even in the most tense of situations still maintains a level of passive moments. So Fosse, Korach and Cotroneo did what good baseball radio guys do best: You enjoyed their recollections of spending together so many March afternoons and evenings in Arizona. There was a Bill King memory, an encounter with Bob Feller, some good-natured jabbering to each other.
It was a reminder of how low-key baseball can be, especially on lazy and meaningless spring training Saturdays.
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