I have yet to be able to watch an entire baseball game. Given how boring baseball normally is, at least crowd shots were somewhat interesting. Games seem hours longer these days, at least to me. Also - I'm betting that the baseball season only lasts a week or two more before they have to shut the whole thing down.
Ralph Barbieri, KNBR’s ‘Razor,’ dies at 74 after battle with Parkinson’s Was he one of the ones who was always running soccer down?
Yes, at least until near the end. Shortly before MLS began playing, he and his then-radio partner Tom Tolbert (who's still with KNBR) confidently predicted that the league would last "two, maybe three, years tops!" And just after the previous version of the San Jose Earthquakes were moved in December 2005, he emphatically stated that it's a "truism" that soccer will never take off here and that there'll never be a soccer stadium built here. Only near the end of his time with KNBR did he seemingly begin to appreciate European soccer, but he still to his very last day there would never even give the Earthquakes or MLS in general the time of day. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
I remember Barbieri commenting on GK Shaka Hislop's heroics in Trinidad vs. Sweden 0-0 draw during the 2006 World Cup. He was going on and on about him. at least that day..... He and Tolbert also gave good air time for Brazil and how they camped in Los Gatos during the 1994 WC and to LAndy , Yallop and Doyle during the first and second reincarnation of the Quakes.
Are you sure that it was Tom Tolbert (just curious)? Didn’t he play in the NBA until 1995 and only join KNBR and Barbieri in 1996? GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G