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Tonight is a monumental moment for those who enjoy Rick Sutcliffe's smooth, honest, and, sometimes, absolutely shit-faced baseball analysis, as he returns to ESPN studios to be the colorman for the Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game. Sutcliffe's been out of commission after battling colon cancer, but he's recovering nicely and is ready to stumble back into announcer's booth near you sometime soon. More »
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Since Sports Illustrated is making its unveiling of the 2006 Sportsman Of The Year award into a two-month enterprise, we figured we could do the same thing. Therefore, we are introducing the Deadspin Sportshuman Of The Year tournament, where 16 nominees will compete for the sainted title. We've put together the seeding, and you'll vote every Tuesday and Thursday to narrow the field down to one winner at the end of the year. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=213585&view=rss&microfeed=true For some reason — perhaps it's the Cardinals-Cubs series tonight — but we started becoming rather nostalgic and wistful about Harry Caray today. We're not sure why. Jack Buck was always our favorite announcer anyway. Maybe it's just because we don't have many Harrys anymore; people who are liable to do and say anything, and do and say it in as entertaining a way as possible. Maybe if they let Rick Sutcliffe do all the games drunk, maybe. Or maybe we're just vanilla Jim Nantz/Joe Buck/Greg Gumbel-ed out. More »
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Former Minnesota Twins Bert Blyleven occassionally takes time out of pleading for Hall of Fame election — justifiably, if you ask us — to broadcast Twins games for Fox Sports. The other evening, he was put in the unfortunate position of having to talk to former "American Idol" contest Ace Young (a.k.a., "The One You'd Love To Curb") in the booth. We can't imagine what we'd possibly have to talk to Ace Young about, but if we had to ask something, we might have asked what Blyleven did. More »
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USA Today's Michael Heistand has the scoop this morning: ESPN's Rick Sutcliffe has been suspended from calling tonight's Red Sox-Orioles game. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=173752&view=rss&microfeed=true We asked for it, and you provided it: The complete video of Rick Sutcliffe's drunken meltdown on the Padres' telecast Wednesday night. Whoever posted the video was kind enough, in the middle of the video, to give us closeups of the announcers' faces, particularly play-by-play man Matt Vasgersian, who desperately tries to steer conversation away from his own career and toward, oh, ANYTHING else. More »
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Earlier today, we wondered why Bill Murray was hanging out in San Diego while his Cubs were in San Francisco. We now have our answer: He was getting blasted with Rick Sutcliffe. More »
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