{"id":9966,"date":"2010-09-02T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2010-09-02T06:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T10:43:58","slug":"why-rob-dibble-wont-be-doing-any-more-nats-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/09\/why-rob-dibble-wont-be-doing-any-more-nats-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rob Dibble won&#8217;t be doing any more Nats games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/01\/AR2010090106482.html?hpid=topnews\"><strong>Washington Nationals fire TV announcer Rob Dibble after his comments about Stephen Strasburg<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <em>The Post<\/em><br \/>\nMASN Washington Nationals analyst <strong>Rob Dibble<\/strong>, who never let facts get in the way of machismo, has been fired by the team. Oddly enough, he was hired by John Angelos, the son of MASN\/Baltimore Orioles principle owner <strong>Peter Angelos<\/strong>. How that relationship works ought to be explained some time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dcsportsbog\/2010\/09\/rob_dibble_on_leaving_masn.html\"><strong>Dibble&#8217;s take on the situation, surprisingly short and not bitter<\/strong><\/a> DC Sports Bog, <em>The Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dibble&#8217;s shortcoming were numerous and the remarks that challenging Stephen Strasburg&#8217;s manhood for calling out a trainer when he was injured were just about the final straw. I think Dibble also criticized <strong>Ray Knight<\/strong>, his MASN colleague  as well. Let&#8217;s review why Dibble simply needed to go, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talking over the play-by-play announcer &#8212; Dibble often talked, yelled or grunted over Bob Carpenter&#8217;s calls. If I were Carpenter I would have been furious.<\/li>\n<li>Grunting &#8212; yes, the man grunted during big plays like home runs, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Arrogance &#8212; Dibble could not get over the fact that he played baseball and the people watching, writing\/blogging about it, did not. The man was way too impressed with himself.<\/li>\n<li>Antagonizing the audience &#8212; He has been anti-blogger from about day 1 and recently offended female baseball fans by insinuating that two women sitting in the front row talked about shopping instead of watching the game. Who knows what they were talking about Rob? We know you were not talking about the game. Also, why are people down on women who like baseball? I just don&#8217;t get it.<\/li>\n<li>Opinions based on something other than experience, access or facts &#8212; Why should I respect an analyst, whose career ended early due to arm trouble, when he talks about needing to pitch through pain? Why should I respect an analyst who suggests that playing hurt is good when the player in question is dragging his team down because of the injury?<\/li>\n<li>Reliance on the pitch track\/whining about the umpires &#8212; If you are basing all of your strikezone conclusions on the pitch track that I can see for myself, what are you adding to the telecast? Also, the umpires set the strikezone, not the pitch track.<\/li>\n<li>Over-the-top homerism &#8212; I don&#8217;t mind someone being a homer in the booth necessarily, but from the beginning he overdid it, especially considering that he had no ties to the team or Washington.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, instead using is experience or access to the team to tell me something I don&#8217;t know, Dibble just offered opinions with little or no thought. He never earned (or even tried to establish, it would seem) credibility. He came off as arrogant and lazy which doesn&#8217;t make me want to watch the game with the sound on. To suggest, as some had, that Dibble got fired for going against the Nats dominant ideology simply ignores Dibble&#8217;s complete history. <\/p>\n<p>I will be turning the sound back on again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DID YOU KNOW?<\/strong> Dibble was a candidate for the analyst position in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2005\/03\/295.html\"><strong>2005<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2006\/01\/three-four-nats-articles.html\"><strong>2006<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. My offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/06\/masn-didnt-fire-dibble-so-orioles-boycott-continues.html\"><strong>to take in an Orioles game if MASN  fired Dibble expired over 2 months ago<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S He must have been devastated that he couldn&#8217;t be their for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/09\/nyjer-morgan-charges-mound-in-nats-16-10-loss-to-marlins.html\"><strong>the brawl<\/strong><\/a> last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals fire TV announcer Rob Dibble after his comments about Stephen Strasburg &#8211; The Post MASN Washington Nationals analyst Rob Dibble, who never let facts get in the way of machismo, has been fired by the team. Oddly enough, he was hired by John Angelos, the son of MASN\/Baltimore Orioles principle owner Peter Angelos. 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