Please Shut Up!

About today’s sports announcers, I could not agree more (“They Shoot, They Bore,” by Paul Brownfield, March 31). During last year’s baseball playoffs, Jason Giambi was up at bat with two men on base. A Fox dunderhead said, “Giambi would be better off hitting a double rather than a home run to keep the opposing pitcher out there longer.” Obviously the opposing manager might take him out anyway if he gives up the double, but since when is two runs better than three?

The disease is called “I want to hear myself talkitis.” Economy of speech, knuckleheads. Listen to Vin Scully’s call of Kirk Gibson’s winning home run. He let the crowd tell you what was happening. The idiot from Fox would have said what kind of car he drove by the time he got to third base. Just shut up and report what you see, not your high school hallucinations.

BOB SCHUCH

Hollywood