Why does this blog advocate that Sims move along?:
- Sims does not fit the mold of the traditional Mariners announcer - a long time West Coaster, a former Mariner, or, Rick Rizzs. (We love you Rick, and we never thought we would, but we do.)
- Sims brings an East Coast bias, a predilection for a national sports view owing to his work in the off season, and his East Coast roots. This isn't enjoyable during the long Seattle summer. If we wanted to watch ESPN's take on the Mariners, (if there was one), we would watch ESPN.
- Sims East Coast accent and personality is at odds with the color commentators assigned to him. Specifically Mike Blowers shrivels up like a flower on the vine in fall when next to Sims who he is apparently intimidated by. We've never loved Mike Blowers, but he's a Seattle native and a Seattle Mariners - and when put along side the like of the amicable Rick Rizzs, (such as when Niehaus went on vacation), he blooms into a great color guy.
- Sims might be a nice guy, even competent, and well suited to the NFL and Big East commentating he does for national organizations the rest of the year, but he is not best suited for the long Mariners summer and the intimate relationship a baseball announcer enjoys with his audience over the long season in. We wish Dave Sims would just move on.
- Note: this blog also must be honest in suggestion Dave Niehaus shoudl also be put out to pasture. Though Niehaus is a hero in these parts and will always have a special place in our hearts, his crankiness and stubbornness in the booth is beyond strange these days. For what it's worth, I would take Dave Henderson and Dave Valle along side Rick Rizzs any day.
Could not agree more I just finished watching a game on Fox where Sims showed his true colors he is not a Seattle announcer he is a network announcer pretending to be a Seattle announcer. I think Mike Curto would be a fantastic Seattle Mariners announcer. People need to email the mariners and Root sports like I just did in order to get Sims Fired before its too late. Keep in mind Sims is 59 years old, so he could announce another ten to twenty years. Imagine how bad Sims will be when he is Seventy years old.
ReplyDeleteDave Sims is awful. Randy Aramack, the director of communications, has been mailing it in for years hiring hacks like Rizzs, Sims, Fairly, Dan Wilson and Dave Valle. The fans in Seattle are too passive, and will put up with whatever the Mariners give us in the booth. Rick Rizzs was run out of town by the fans in Detroit when he went out there in the early nineties, but the Mariners took him back. It's time to ship Sims and his stupid hats out of town.
ReplyDeleteHow can we get this east coast/Yankees lover out of town. Whis the bombers would hire him. Wonder if announcers can be traded? Who do we get ahold of to get him out of town?
ReplyDeleteSure, Dave Sims is awful. But SO IS RICK RIZZ. Have you ever noticed how he says "In time!" every time there's a putout at a base. He says the same catch phrase for the same play over and over and over again. Move on Rick Rizz.
ReplyDeleteThis guys crazy gutirrez hits his 8th homer and has 25 RBI this guy says what a year he's having? That's good? Please that's hideous they are lucky I'm not their announcer I'd be talking bad until they earned their paychecks
ReplyDeleteYou all are ridiculous
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