I’m only posting about this aspect of the game because I’ve turned down the sound on the Michael Kay-Alex Rodriguez ESPN call of the Cubs-Cards game. Because I was driving to the White Sox game yesterday, I only heard some of the slaughter on the Cubs local radio station.

In general, I like listening to most of the national crews when they call games of the week-even if it’s a Cubs game. The broader perspective and different voices/deliveries are a nice break in the routine. I also know that everyone hears things differently and some voices appeal to other people and not me.

Whether everything extemporaneous is scripted, I blame the aforementioned pair of offering little to no insight. Their delivery is choppy at best and problematic as one guy seems to be thumbing through the latest edition of Roget’s. I’m further convinced that we don’t need mic’d up players on the field.

Conversely, one of the Cubs radio voices was kind of complaining about the heat. Them guys (his favorite term, not mine) seem to have forgotten it’s the end of June in Chicago and London.

Go Cubs!