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Media Views: Dan McLaughlin 'would have picked Chip' Caray as his Cardinals TV replacement https://t.co/xGcWjnFBXI
— STL Cardinals News (@STLCardsNews) February 3, 2023
I’ve written and rewritten this countless times. Even though I’ve been behind a microphone for three decades, I feel this is the most important message I’ve conveyed. Thanks for your support, love and understanding. pic.twitter.com/14TtysN4Cq
— Dan McLaughlin (@DannyMacTV) February 14, 2023
Thanks for posting this, BW. Depression and anxiety are both extremely tough outs. Although I was never professionally diagnosed as suffering from depression, I began to suffer from extended periods of bouts with extreme levels of anxiety beginning in my early 40’s. At times, I was a living breathing pressure cooker and the only thing that seemingly provided any relief was a few beers after work. Problem was that the dosage had to be steadily increased to continue to provide any relief from the ever present sense of uneasiness and worry until a situation existed that could be termed a double edged sword. Fortunately I spoke with someone who had suffered through the same experience and they encouraged me to talk with someone who had the proper training and practical experience to treat that sort of thing. At any rate, I’ll miss Danny Mclaughlin on the Redbird broadcasts and certainly hope that he partners up with the right people to get him back on track.
Is the Cardinal organization providing any support financial or otherwise for him or did they simply cast him aside and wish him well?
If it’s the latter that will be really disappointing to me unless there are multiple recent write ups in his personnel file.
It’s good to hear Danny taking responsibility, and hope and pray he keeps himself accountable to those who can help him get and stay on track. Thanks for sharing the message, BW.
Dan’s message is heart wrenching. I mentioned earlier that my son has followed a similar path. We did a family intervention with him and got him into a terrific program here in the Denver area last summer, and he has turned it around. You just hope and pray he stays strong.
He is back on his own again and doing great – says he does not even want to drink anymore; rarely thinks about it. I think Danny Mac can get there as well. Depression and anxiety are tough life cards to be dealt. We are cheering you on Dan!
Do you want your play-by-play man wearing a Brock-a-brella and yukking it up with Brad “center cut fer sure”? Can’t envision Jack Buck ever doing this, even in the worst of seasons, but maybe it is a different time…
i’ll say it because no one else will. you never got this with Danny Mac. Chip and Brad are just a great duo with a unique energy pic.twitter.com/0TvU4KeUQZ
— tim (@TimMitch13) August 20, 2023
I don’t know why St. Louis and Cincinnati can’t find some good announcers.
Chip Caray is actually pretty good.
Jim Edmonds is horrific. Just stupid.
Brad Thompson is annoying. “For sure, for sure”John Sadak is pitiful, gets on peoples nerves.
Barry Larkin is dull and boring.
Jeff Brantley is the 2nd worst announcer in the history of the game behind only Joe Morgan.
Chris Welsh is as good as it gets.r/Esteemed Rat
Caray is pretty good. Thompson is annoying.
I guess I should be thankful we don’t have Sadak and Larkin. The mute button would be on every game.
Where are Jack Buck and Marty Brennaman when you need them……
Announcers today are fairly homogenous, although there are some good ones. But I don’t think we will ever see an era where most every team had a great play-by-play man like we had in the ’50s through ’80s. Guys were unique in their calls and styles – Harry Caray, Jack Buck, Vin Scully, Lindsey Nelson, Harry Kalas, Gene Elston, Lon Simmons, Mel Allen, Ernie Harwell, Bob Prince – and others I am not recalling. Just a great era of radio and baseball entertainment.
Although I really liked him as a player and feel that he’s the best Cardinal CF’er of my lifetime, Jim Edmonds is absolutely horrendous as a color analyst. I simply don’t have the ability to listen to him utter a solitary sentence. He’s the only Redbird broadcaster I can recall that I have zero tolerance for. I thought McLaughlin was good and it’s a shame that he created his own demise. I’ll also say that despite always saying things that could only be interpreted by a regular listener, I liked Al as Danny Mac’s sidekick. If you listened to his comments with the right mindset, I thought he was both funny and entertaining. Hey, Al is Al…Haha! My all time favorite PBP announcer is Harry Caray. No one else even comes close and I’d have to proclaim that the duo of Caray/Buck was the best ever in baseball. I’d tune in to a shuffleboard match to hear Harry Caray call the action. Obviously Scully will always be at the top of the list and I always knew it was sweet Saturday morning when I heard Mel Allen’s voice on “This Week in Baseball.” Some others I miss are Gowdy/Kubek/Garagiola, Miller/Morgan and I’ll never forget watching the monumental game 6 of the ’86 ALCS. Al Michael’s PBP call of that baseball game is probably the singlemost best PBP of an entire game that I’ve ever heard. At any rate, another one of the countless things that make baseball special are the old familiar voices of the great PBP announcers and the fond memories they provided to the fans.
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