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Chip Caray Is the New Joe Buck

Next Big Thing is MLB FanHouse's look at emerging teams, trends and stars in 2009.Every fall, die-hard baseball fans are treated to national coverage for every playoff game. We don't get to choose the announcers, and their voices become ingrained in our heads. For years, people have bemoaned the existence of Joe Buck for...

Chip Caray Gives Chuck LaMar Credit for Rays' Success

When a team has as much seemingly unexpected success as the Rays have, they tend to make a lot of people look very silly. It starts in the preseason, with so-called analysts predicting they'll win 70 games, and continues when people refuse to believe they're "for real" into August and September. But you'd think by now, as...

Chip Caray Hearts Torii Hunter?

I'll admit that I am a tad bit biased on this examination, because I hate Chip Caray as an announcer. From the unoriginal "Steve Stone has never picked up a dinner check" every freaking game for his years with the Cubs to the way he laughs when he finishes non-funny sentences ... I just think he's a brutal baseball...

If Dusty Was White, Would Fans Be Happy?

Now that Dusty Baker will be returning to the dugout as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, he's already got some problems to deal with. He's replaced his old feud with Steve Stone and Chip Caray for a new one with Marty Brennaman, but that's not the only feud Baker already has in the Queen City.No, apparently he's already...

Dusty Baker: Now With Built-In Booth Feuds!

One of Dusty Baker's many failings in Chicago -- besides pitching Kerry Wood and Mark Prior into oblivion and playing Neifi Perez every day, et al.-- was his passive role in a feud between then-announcers Steve Stone and Chip Caray and various players on the team. Players thought they were being criticized too harshly, and...