Announcer Eric Karros Talks MLB 11 The Show

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Sports fans -

The boys of summer go back to work today as select stadiums around the country unlock their doors for MLB Opening Day. So, to kick off the baseball season we thought it’d be fitting for you to hear from a former big leaguer, someone who’s been in the trenches and powered through the grind of a 162 game season. Therefore, I’m pleased to introduce our good friend Eric Karros, who joins the MLB 11 The Show broadcast booth this year. Karros, the 1992 National League Rookie of the Year and former Los Angeles Dodger first baseman, completes our commentary trio, throwing his hat into the ring with The Show veterans Matt Vasgersian and Dave Campbell. Certainly no stranger to the limelight, Karros currently works as an MLB color commentator for FOX, as well as KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, where he’s part of the pre-game show for Dodger games. Since signing on to be a part of MLB 11, Karros made multiple visits down to our San Diego Studio for voice-over sessions to record the very lines and commentary that you hear in the new game. During a visit back in January, Eric was nice enough to sit down with us and provide his thoughts on The Show and what it’s like to now be immortalized in a sports video game. We put together a video of the session that we’d like to share with everyone. It can also be seen on ESPN.com who recently posted it along with an interview.

Welcome to The Show!

[NYJin2009tm]

Re: Announcer Eric Karros Talks MLB 11 The Show

He's so boring to me! I know I'm in the minority here but I want Rex back lol. He'd make me laugh when I would swing at a really bad pitch and yell YUCK lol.

[MavsFansForLife41]

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He's so boring to me! I know I'm in the minority here but I want Rex back lol. He'd make me laugh when I would swing at a really bad pitch and yell YUCK lol.

At least Rex kept you awake either in disgust or delight. Eric puts you to sleep and gives you neither disgust or delight.

[Dodgersnlakers109]

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Got no issue's with EK but i sure do miss Rex's Energy

[jgarcia]

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Got no issue's with EK but i sure do miss Rex's Energy

I actually prefer erics more serious tone. I like when he breaks down the opposing team.

[Bobhead]

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I do too, Eric sounds more like a baseball commentator than either of these other two. I really think there are still many improvements to be made to the commentary though

[mlblover15]

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Im currently watching the Giants/Dodgers game and cant for the life of me cant understand in the age of tech we have now, why oh WHY cant we have commentary that flows as a real life broadcast does from pitch to pitch, etc. even coming back from a commercial break.

every year i say the same thing, we have 200 gig blue ray discs and we could have 100 gigs of recorded audio. why doesn't SCEA go with this and do it. we could have so much more fresh dialogue than we do now. it could sound so much more real life than what we have now.

i still strongly suggest that the dev team really take the time and actually LISTEN to a baseball game on whatever channel it is... espn would work fine. they need to get the timing and energy and cut scenes and everything down even more than they have now.

maybe i should be sent to sd and spend the season just watching baseball all year with the audio team so we can get something done about this.

[EnigmaNemesis]

It is not as easy as you would think it is. No matter the tech or the storage space.

[bwiggy33]

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Im currently watching the Giants/Dodgers game and cant for the life of me cant understand in the age of tech we have now, why oh WHY cant we have commentary that flows as a real life broadcast does from pitch to pitch, etc. even coming back from a commercial break.

every year i say the same thing, we have 200 gig blue ray discs and we could have 100 gigs of recorded audio. why doesn't SCEA go with this and do it. we could have so much more fresh dialogue than we do now. it could sound so much more real life than what we have now.

I think we would all love if this could be done but it really isn't logical. These announcers work 8/9 months out of the 12 months of the year so there is only so much time they have in the offseason. Not to mention SCEA would have to shell out a lot more money to them for spending more time in the studio recording audio. You can't just think about the audio recording process. You gotta remember that these guys have lives outside of announcing MLB baseball and recording audio for MLB The Show. This kind of stuff takes a lot of time.

I do think that if they made it a two year project and then added to the commentary each year there after it would work. It just is not going to happen in a 3 month period during the offseason.

[TheGamingChef]

Re: Announcer Eric Karros Talks MLB 11 The Show

Im currently watching the Giants/Dodgers game and cant for the life of me cant understand in the age of tech we have now, why oh WHY cant we have commentary that flows as a real life broadcast does from pitch to pitch, etc. even coming back from a commercial break.

every year i say the same thing, we have 200 gig blue ray discs and we could have 100 gigs of recorded audio. why doesn't SCEA go with this and do it. we could have so much more fresh dialogue than we do now. it could sound so much more real life than what we have now.

i still strongly suggest that the dev team really take the time and actually LISTEN to a baseball game on whatever channel it is... espn would work fine. they need to get the timing and energy and cut scenes and everything down even more than they have now.

maybe i should be sent to sd and spend the season just watching baseball all year with the audio team so we can get something done about this.

Where in the world did you get that number from? Even a dual-layer Blu-Ray has 50GB of storage.

A Blu-Ray disk has about 5-6 times the storage capacity of a DVD, so I agree that we should expect more from a PS3 game than an Xbox 360 counterpart (that isn't a direct port).

[chadomac]

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maybe it's because it always seems like he's ripping on me (even though I'm over .500 in my season), but I can't stand Karros. I think I'm going to have to turn him off soon.

[srudoff]

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Eric sounds like he's always unsure of himself in the game - lots of uhs and nervous lead ins.

horrible

[lesscan]

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ERIC! Stop reading the friggin thing and act it out naturally!

You are not a bad announcer, but you SUCK in The Show!!!!!

[ImBaconBeckham]

Re: Announcer Eric Karros Talks MLB 11 The Show

Im currently watching the Giants/Dodgers game and cant for the life of me cant understand in the age of tech we have now, why oh WHY cant we have commentary that flows as a real life broadcast does from pitch to pitch, etc. even coming back from a commercial break.

every year i say the same thing, we have 200 gig blue ray discs and we could have 100 gigs of recorded audio. why doesn't SCEA go with this and do it. we could have so much more fresh dialogue than we do now. it could sound so much more real life than what we have now.

i still strongly suggest that the dev team really take the time and actually LISTEN to a baseball game on whatever channel it is... espn would work fine. they need to get the timing and energy and cut scenes and everything down even more than they have now.

maybe i should be sent to sd and spend the season just watching baseball all year with the audio team so we can get something done about this.

You should play ****** to hear what terrible commentary tech is.

The problem is that even if they get a ton of lines, there's a lot of coding that is involved in when those lines will be said. In this case, you want it to be set to the tempo of the game. This could be done, but no game out there in the market has done this well.

[etched Chaos]

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You should play ****** to hear what terrible commentary tech is.

The problem is that even if they get a ton of lines, there's a lot of coding that is involved in when those lines will be said. In this case, you want it to be set to the tempo of the game. This could be done, but no game out there in the market has done this well.

Ahem. There's a lesser game out there who has done this well.

The tech is out there, we've heard it in other games. But SCEA SD would need to make a focused effort on completely redoing their current commentary system and all signs are pointing to it not happening anytime soon. Like player models, I have no doubt in 3-4 years we might have it finished.