2011-07-21

Dave Van Horne Inducted Into The Hall

Former Expos play by play man Dave Van Horne will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame this year. Another member of the Expos family gets a cut into baseball immortality. I guess that leaves Tim Raines. He should get in.

Van Horne is one of the best sports announcer I've heard over the years. Smooth, clear, and descriptive, Van Horne worked alongside Ken Singleton and later the late great Duke Snider (or was it the other way around? Can't remember).

In any event, awesome tandems. You couldn't ask for better voices in the night while listening to late night games or lying around the pool on hot summer days or just kicking back in a park listening to the game from your car radio. Hopefully, his French counterpart Jacques Doucet will get his shot too. Doucet internationalized the game into another language in a unique market all to himself.

The Expos were blessed with a development machine that produced great talent and outstanding colour commentating teams.

Still a crying shame it all slipped away.

If the organization was rotten and inept, that I would get, but it wasn't the case.

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They, and you know who you are, say Obama is a great speaker. Listen to Vin Scully and Van Horne and get back to me on that. See the difference in unscripted speech skills filled with melodic imagery.

Never do you hear an "uh" or "um" with those guys. Politics, sports - whatever - it doesn't matter.

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