Thursday, July 3, 2008
News / Chicagoland Steve Stone to TV?
Posted by Whet Moser on Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:58 AM
So it's looking like Steve Stone might move from the White Sox's radio booth to the TV. Steve Rhodes approves, but I suspect (and I'm hoping he'll post about it) my friend Ben will be disappointed.
I haven't been listening to the Sox on the radio much this year--I'm a Cardinals fan from early childhood, with an Ozzie Smith Starting Lineup figurine and signed baseball at my desk, and now that John Rooney is at KTRS it's just bliss (available through MLB Gameday Audio, which is the best deal in the whole world)--so I have to take him at his word. Ben, who is a dedicated Sox listener, calls the Steve Stone*/Ed Farmer duo "a graduate-level course in pitching" (Stone and Farmer are both former major league pitchers; both were All-Stars). He can and hopefully will tell you more, but it's worth checking out.
*Did You Know? "He was one of the best Jewish pitchers in major league history, 3rd career-wise in wins (107) and strikeouts (1,065), behind Ken Holtzman and Sandy Koufax, and 9th in games (320)." Also, a poet and a... competitive table-tennis player? Steve Stone is just awesome.
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The Stone-to-TV move, while not a done deal, was always a matter of time to me. The minute I heard him sitting in for DJ (when Jackson took time off last season for the birth of his daughter), I knew Jackson has just Wally Pipp-ed himself. At the risk of deifying Stone, I haven't heard any other colorman better. No one else I've ever heard can do that eerie predict-the-play-before-it-happens better than he does. It is a wonder to hear. In addition, I believe Reinsdorf will make this happen. Do you honestly think ESPN was seeking out Chris Singleton after his season as a color man on the radio with Farmer. Reinsdorf found out Stone was available and interested and with his considerable baseball pull I am convinced that Reinsdorf pulled some strings to get Singleton the job in order to bring in Stone. And I am equally sure that he will help DJ land somewhere (on Sox radio?) in order to bring Stone to TV. Stone will do for Hawk what he did for Harry Carey: keep him in check and focused on the game without being too much of a homer.
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