Matty V thank you but it's over...

[Unit303]

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Any person who votes for Joe Buck scares the **** out of me. Dude is a homer to the T and I cannot stand him.

[tackleb0x]

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Could be worse. Could be Chris "pacifiers for babies" Collinsworth.

[ptbnl]

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Joe Buck and Tim McCarver would be awful. Whoever suggested them doesn't follow baseball much.

[jake44np]

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Why on earth they never got MLB 2k's broadcast team first is beyond me. Or even try to pay Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. i can name off 3 sets better than Matt V and whoever. lol.

You have to be kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Tim McCarver would be the Show's "jump the shark" moment.
Nothing is ever better with Tim McCarver.

[lhslancers]

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Matt V is doing the Canada-Italy game now with Kaat. I think he does an acceptable job doing play by play live but the lines in the game need to be redone.

[bwiggy33]

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Buck is the most emotionless boring announcer in all of sports. I do not need he monotonous tone putting me to sleep while I try to play. If they do replace Vasgersian, it better not be with Buck.

Fully agreed. The only reason Buck is in the business is because of his Dad.

The thing is Matt V is actually a pretty emotional and energetic announcer in real life. The Show just doesn't sport it off well enough. I think the commentary could be so much better if he got excited during big moments, instead of the random times. It's just annoying when in the first inning you get the energetic HR call, and then if you hit a walk off, it will be the dull HR call. It's just way too random and you never know what you're going to get. Other than that and the dead periods I actually don't mind the commentary.

[bp4baseball]

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I'm bias, but id hate to lose Vasgersian. I think partnering with one other commentator would be ideal (with a reworked system for commentary). Though I don't think commentary is so bad right now... It'll never be perfect and they can only put in so many lines.
I think a Vasgersian and Reynolds pair would be great (though I'd even prefer Mark Grant.... He's worked plenty with Vasgersian before )

[blueduke]

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I think Matty V is perfect for The Show. When I'm playing it seems like I'm listening to a radio broadcast of the game. Now Karros gets on my last nerve. Nothing against his broadcasting skills but to me his voice doesn't translate well to broadcasting. I cut him out of the commentary in the audio presentations options menu so I don't have to hear his voice

[jmount78]

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Matty is a little tiresome, but having two announcers in Lyons and Karros who seem to sound very similar is worse. Before someone tries to come off the top turnbuckle because I don't like the commentary, let me state that I love what they did this year.

To me the visuals and ball physics are great and the commentary is just disappointing. For me, it is like the game has a million dollar body and a food stamp face. Edited that line for fear of not being politically correct.

[KMRblue1027]

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Matt is really good live, the show just needs to capture his emotion better, we just need more memory for new recordings. *cough* PS4 *cough*

[Bobhead]

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The commentary overall is pretty bad in this game. There's just no skating around that fact.

Every single play results in one man giving 1-2 lines about it, then silence. There's not but 1 or 2 instances in the entire game where a conversation occurs, or even one guy reacting to the words uttered by another guy.

Instead of a commentary team, I feel like we have 3 MCs, whom take turns hosting a show, one at a time.

[LakerFan56]

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Biggest issue I have is that there is VERY LITTLE from Karros or Lyons...I have noticed times where 2-3 innings go by and only Matty V has been talking...

The commenting overall is more disjointed than before. Replacing one of the broadcasters with Lyons has killed the flow of commenting. In previous years the commentators would talk to each other at various times and use the same tone when talking. Now you have Lyons who is usually upbeat and Vasgersian who has a more mellow tone like the dude who was replaced. I don't know, it just sounds disjointed to me.

[Blzer]

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The commenting overall is more disjointed than before. Replacing one of the broadcasters with Lyons has killed the flow of commenting. In previous years the commentators would talk to each other at various times and use the same tone when talking. Now you have Lyons who is usually upbeat and Vasgersian who has a more mellow tone like the dude who was replaced. I don't know, it just sounds disjointed to me.

Plus, Karros and Lyons kind of sound alike.

[blueduke]

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I think some of you young whippersnappers are forgetting that this is baseball. It's a slow moving game. There's more strategy involved than any other sport. It wasn't designed to have a "thrill a minute" or a ton of Sportscenter highlights. Baseball doesn't designed to have a team of Gus Johnson's doing the commentary

[Blzer]

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I think some of you young whippersnappers are forgetting that this is baseball. It's a slow moving game. There's more strategy involved than any other sport. It wasn't designed to have a "thrill a minute" or a ton of Sportscenter highlights. Baseball doesn't designed to have a team of Gus Johnson's doing the commentary

SCAE/989 is well aware of this fact, since they used to have Vin Scully call the games back in the day.

But this game definitely is evolving, and when the other presentation aspects attempt to "keep up" to the contemporary style of the game, the commentary still falls behind in that regard.