Steve Albert...

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Furlanfufi
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I like Albert.
The only thing I hate , and it's not his fault, is that the Suns give a 100 dollars to charities everytime they hit a 3.
they could switch that to half the times we hit a 3.

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Furlanfufi wrote:I like Albert.
The only thing I hate , and it's not his fault, is that the Suns give a 100 dollars to charities everytime they hit a 3.
they could switch that to half the times we hit a 3.
& I know I bitch about the other guys and their aggravating ways of Sun's homerism and I commend Albert for not doing it, but, it's also disconcerting that he's honestly clueless to the Suns. You can almost "feel" his ignorance when he's bantering. He doesn't know anything from before last November. He's not vested in them anymore than he is the Pelicans. He's just having a grand time doing his profession. It's a little distressing. At least with EJ I know what I'm going to get and when he mentions something from years ago, or a place and time it sparks a memory....and then I wait for him to finish it with a salvo that makes me want to kick the dog.

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Steve Albert is a hired gun, for sure. He's no Al McCoy in terms of Suns history.

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Superbone wrote:I'm telling you, sometime Albert makes me pine for the Leander days.
Bone, I had to read that twice to make sure I had it right.
Who are you and what have you done with our Superbone?

Not sure I can even type out "Pine for the Lea............." Nope. Can't do it.

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DesertcoastPartDeux wrote:
Superbone wrote:I'm telling you, sometime Albert makes me pine for the Leander days.
Bone, I had to read that twice to make sure I had it right.
Who are you and what have you done with our Superbone?

Not sure I can even type out "Pine for the Lea............." Nope. Can't do it.
Ha ha! DC in the hizzy!

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After Tom Leander, Steve Albert sounds brilliant.

But in reality he's a fairly average announcer. And as mentioned above - he's a hired gun which is both good (he's not a homer) and bad (we don't have an attachment to him like we do Al McCoy).

We have been luck enough to have grown up with one voice of the Suns (well, unless you were here for Bob Vache and Rod Hundley).
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Don't forget Joe McConnell, B.
Window is open again ... blue skies ahead?

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RADIO
1968-69 KTAR AM 620 - Bob Vache
1969-70 KTAR AM 620 - Bob Vache/Rod Hundley & Rod Hundley/John Kerr
1970-72 KTAR AM 620 - Joe McConnell & Rod Hundley
1972-74 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Hot Rod Hundley
1974-75 KXIV AM 1400 - Al McCoy & John Shumate/Joe Gilmartin
1975-76 KOOL FM 94.5 - Al McCoy & Tom Ambrose
1976-77 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & N/A
1977-92 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Dick Van Arsdale
1992-96 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Cotton Fitzsimmons
1996-97 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Greg Schulte
1997-00 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Keith Erickson
2000-03 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Eddie Johnson
2003-04 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Cotton Fitzsimmons/Tim Kempton
2004-05 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Tim Kempton/Vinny Del Negro
2005-10 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy & Tim Kempton
2010-14 KTAR AM 620 - Al McCoy/Jeff Munn & Tim Kempton
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Vache, McConnell and Hundley were all here before my day LL!
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OVER-THE-AIR TELEVISION
1968-69 KTAR 12 - Bob Vache
1969-70 KTAR 12 - Hot Rod Hundley & Johnny Kerr
1970-72 KTAR 12 - Joe McConnell & Rod Hundley
1972-74 KTAR 12 - Al McCoy & Hot Rod Hundley
1974-75 KPHO 5 - Ray Scott & Walt Brown
1975-76 KPHO 5 - Al McCoy & Tom Ambrose
1976-77 KPHO 5 - Al McCoy & N/A
1977-79 KPHO 5 - Al McCoy & Dick Van Arsdale
1979-92 KPNX 12 - Al McCoy & Dick Van Arsdale
1992-96 KUTP 45 - Al McCoy & Cotton Fitzsimmons
1996-97 KUTP 45 - Al McCoy & Greg Schulte
1997-00 KUTP 45 - Al McCoy & Keith Erickson
2000-03 KUTP 45 - Al McCoy & Eddie Johnson
2003-04 KUTP 45 - Tom Leander & Eddie Johnson
2004-06 KUTP 45 - Gary Bender & Dan Majerle
2006-08 KUTP 45 - Tom Leander & Eddie Johnson
2008-11 KUTP 45 - Tom Leander & Eddie Johnson/Scott Williams
2011-14 None

CABLE TELEVISION
1980-81 ON-TV - N/A
1981-82 American Cable - Al McCoy & N/A
1982-83 American Cable - Al McCoy & Joe Gilmartin
1983-85 American Cable - Al McCoy & Dick Van Arsdale
1985-89 Dimension Cable - George Allen
1989-92 Dimension Cable - George Allen & Joe Gilmartin
1992-93 Dimension Cable - George Allen & Truck Robinson
1993-95 Dimension Cable - Gary Bender & Keith Erickson
1995-96 Cox Sports - Gary Bender & Bob Elliott
1996-03 Cox Sports - Gary Bender & Cotton Fitzsimmons
2003-04 Fox Sports Net Arizona - Gary Bender & Tom Chambers
2004-08 Fox Sports Net Arizona - Gary Bender & Dan Majerle
2008-11 Fox Sports Net Arizona - Gary Bender & Eddie Johnson/Scott Williams
2011-12 Fox Sports Net Arizona - Tom Leander & Eddie Johnson/Scott Williams
2012-14 Fox Sports Net Arizona - Steve Albert & Eddie Johnson/Ann Meyers
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That seems off a little bit or maybe it is my memory. I could have sworn in the mid 90's on cox 9 we had Al and Cotton calling games. At least for a short time.

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