Jon Miller Calls Fantastic Fan Night His Most Memorable Game

Every single thing about that article is awesome.

Jay Tibbs pitches into the ninth, Cal doubles and homers…good stuff. I still didn’t quite understand why they’d pick that game out, but this makes it a bit clearer.

1. Jon Miller is a great announcer / voice of the Orioles / associated almost exclusively with positives about the franchise / a tremendous loss to the city, fans and team.

2. Peter Angelos is a douchebag / clueless about the team’s fan base / indifferent to the concerns of image and integrity / an unmitigated disaster who should step on a rake, fall down a very large hole and be disemboweled.

And y’know, that’s not even the worst of it. The worst is knowing that Sh*thead Petey will never read this article, the fan comments or otherwise have reason to idly wonder what the hell something called Fantastic Fan Day was all about. He just doesn’t give a rat’s +ss. Why should he? His “philosophy” is laid out regularly for all to see and hear: I’m Petey and you’re not. You think I like owning this team? So what if they call me “Worst Franchise Owner in Professional Sports.” Hey, I’m No. 1!

Well, “Brady Anderson” and a dose of Big Lie therapy just might not make us lose sight of all that, y’know?

The second worst of it thing, of course, is that Ferd Manfraud, who has Miller’s job, will not read the piece, the fan comments or anything else enlightening or useful. He will never get a clue or even suspect that he doesn’t have one as to how to announce a game on the radio. He will be late making virtually every call, remark repeatedly between plays on unrelated items of no possible interest or note, lose track during plays of what is happening on the field, refuse to say so if the team is playing badly, ignore it vigorously when the owner does something stupid or demeaning to the franchise…I can’t go on, my head is exploding.

I just wish Joe would punch him out in the booth — just once, for all of us. That would be so great: Fantastic Fist Night.

‘Course, then Petey would railroad Joe out of town, too. Still, it’d almost be worth it.

For real. Thanks for posting this.

manfra is an interesting case. he is horrible but the perfect angelos homer who will never say anything close to the truth about a bad team. he reminds me of the Skipper on Gillgans Island wringing his hands and babbling. i thought Brother Low was good but he and his Comcast crew were probably run off for being a little critical. jon miller was flat out great and i haven’t listened to a full game on radio since he left. he made bad game interesting. his mickey rivers stories were the best.

this is how manfra would describe a routine ground out- "okay, there goes a ball rolling through the grass to third to the waiting thrid baseman melvin mora who picks it up looks at it says hiya bally and says thank you very much (crowd already cheering the out in background) finds a grip on the ball that will do with the heavy heavy amount of rain we had today, slings it over to the first baseman who is standing on and occupying the first base bag and the umpire says “yes, yes sir your are OUT” and the lady with a white hat in the first row agrees too as do all the gorunds crew guys who do the grounds crew work here at camden yards home of the baltimore orioles for many years..crab cakes."

joe angel then quickly fills in what type of pitch, how hard it was hit and how close the play was at first (thanfully)…..and the name of the batter : )

I remember that game as I lived 1/2 mile from the old stadium and used to go to all the games. I am not sure if I went to that game ( tix were cheap then) but I remember it and it was like a celebration day for the Birds because they ( the O’s) were getting abused on every front ,newspapers, TV late shows, talk radio – you name it and we felt horrible for the team.They set losing records! 0 and 6 to start the season, so they fire Cal Sr. bring in Frank Robinson and he promtly loses the next 15 games in a row – going 0-21.
Thank you Jon Miller

LOL!!! about all the manfraud comments. i thought he would be around for maybe a year…holy crap! it’s been a long time. what about the all time dumb ass who was hired because he alledgedly wrote for the Simpsons..he lasted 2 years maybe. too fn’ funny. they will take anyone willing to put their nuts in a cherry pitter and spread Homer all over the yard. give me Low Low and Miller. That would be awsome.