Ride TheoryListening to a Rocket Cities Trash Pandas #baseball game. Ad came on: "Magnets, crypto, daylight savings time... also internet bills: nobody understands anything..."
Mick Gillispie and Richie Juliano were the announcers on WKCE for the Knoxville Smokies, and they were a couple of knuckleheads (RJ: "I didn't like school." MG: "Yeah, you've mentioned that before." RJ: "I didn't like it.") so after about an inning and a half of that scintillating repartee, I switched stations to the Rocket City Trash Panda's coverage on WZZN. Announcer Josh Caray was much, much better. Sadly, the Pandas lost 8-7. #MiLB #Baseball
Radio ads on the Madison, Alabama station included one for Northrop Grumman. Knoxville ran two different ads for Xtian adoption, along with the "F'n' magnets; how do they work?" ad mentioned earlier.
Oh yes, because I like to calculate this stuff: the capacity of Smokies Stadium is 6,412, and the reported attendance was 2,630, or about 32%. Caray announced toward the end of the game that the "crowd" had dwindled to around 500. A little over 2k of fans couldn't be bothered to stick around to see the home team win a tight game. Way to go, Knoxville.
I looked up Josh Caray, and he's the son of Skip Caray and grandson of Harry Caray, so he comes from a long line of broadcasters. He does a good job; would listen again.
Looking over my scorecard today, I notice a detail I forgot when I started this thread...
STADIUM ANNOUNCER: "There's our national anthem, brought to you by Jack Daniels!"
I probably would have chuckled at the name of ANY sponsor, but that one in particular made me LOL pretty heartily.