Mets Announcer Tournament First Round: Keith Hernandez vs. Steve Zabriskie

by James Kannengieser on Mar 12, 2009 12:00 PM EDT

Yesterday's results: Ralph Kiner (94%) def. Dave O'Brien (6%). The first round trouncings continue. We might have to wait for the Elite 8 to see an "upset." Here is today's matchup:

Keith Hernandez VS. Steve Zabriskie

TV Tenure (2002-Present) TV Tenure (1983-1989)

Poll

Amazin' Avenue Mets Announcer Tournament First Round

Keith Hernandez

333 votes

Steve Zabriskie

65 votes

398 votes | Poll has closed

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I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

You know I am only teasing. I love you gals out there — always have.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on Mar 12, 2009 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

another guy I don't remember

but at least this time it’s b/c I was too young. Keith = the man.

by cjmulrain on Mar 12, 2009 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

I feel kinda bad

Because I did not have teevee access during Zabriskie’s tenure. That said, I love me some Keith Hernandez.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Mar 12, 2009 12:15 PM EDT reply actions

Mex all the way.

Since I, too, don’t remember Zabriskie.

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Mar 12, 2009 12:24 PM EDT reply actions

I wonder

How many people will vote for Zabriskie not because they like him (or even remember him) but because they dislike Hernandez.

by Eric Simon on Mar 12, 2009 12:29 PM EDT reply actions

Id have to venture

the female voters may vote for Zabriskie, especially after recalling what Mex said about the reporter in the SD dugout. I laughed my ass off when he made that comment on the air.

by tbach81 on Mar 12, 2009 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Yea

But there are only like five women that read this site and Zabriskie already has eight votes.

by Eric Simon on Mar 12, 2009 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions

I remember liking Zabriskie

quite a bit as a kid. I have always felt a special fondness for slick, cheese ball 80s television personalities. He got my vote.

"Since we became accelerated readers, we never leave the house." - Los Campesinos

by Shomov on Mar 12, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Zabriskie's tenure was before my conscious Met-watching years

but I’ve seen a few classic games announced by him on DVD or TV. I’m a fan.

by James Kannengieser on Mar 12, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions

She wasn't a reporter

She was a member of the training staff.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Mar 12, 2009 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Zabriskie

sort of holding his own. At least he is doing what say a Oral Roberts might do, keep it close against Kansas for the first 15 min before the Jayhawks go on a 20-2 run to put it away.

by Endys Game on Mar 12, 2009 1:10 PM EDT reply actions

this is the most unfair fight since

Zabriskie’s battle with his hairline.

I.M. Forme
"When you get yourself into trouble is when you feel you have to do something, and then you get yourself in trouble." --Omar Minaya

by itsmetsforme on Mar 12, 2009 2:17 PM EDT reply actions

Zabriskie's last game

The last game of the 89 season was in Pittsburgh I believe. ( I don’t remember the result) After the final out they went to commercial and when they came back Zabriske was gone. McCarver and Kiner made some acknowledgments about how they enjoyed working with Zabriskie but there was never any mention of why he left, where he was going, and he never even got a final sign off. I don’t ever remember hearing from or about him again. It was the oddest thing. Supposedly he did some work for ESPN, which I don’t remember, but he really has disappeared. It’s a shame because I always liked listening to him as kid.

I like Mex, but Zabriskie got my vote.

by Reg Dunlop on Mar 12, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions

Here here

I really really like Keith Hernandez, but Zabriskie was who I listened to when I became a Mets fan in elementary school. I knew he would lose this poll, but I had to vote for him, Zabriskie/McCarver/Kiner is as important to my becoming a Mets fan as Mookie/Doc/Daryl were.

by djbutler73 on Mar 12, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions