Josh Lewin
Lewin
Josh Lewin


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  • Broadcaster: Radio 2012 - 2018

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September 18, 2012
Now that this disappointing season is concluding, I'd like to write a follow-up post to the one I made on Josh at the beginning of the season. I listen to almost all of my Mets games on the radio, and I've heard Howie and Josh broadcast about half the games for the last five months. I feel that Josh Lewin is so awful behind the mic as to make Wayne Hagin sound like a genius by comparison. The problem with Josh is manifold: he often sounds confused as to what precisely is happening on the field; he peppers his commentary with pop culture references that are liable to be inaccessible to a large segment of the listening audience; and, most egregiously, he will offer the most arcane number-crunching comparisons in order to keep pace with the more fluent and knowledgeable Howie Rose. Say, for example, Justin Turner comes off the bench in the 7th inning on a Thursday night to pinch hit with two runners on. Before Turner even arrives in the batter's box, Josh will be telling you the batting average of all National League right- handed pinch hitters who have hit in the seventh inning on a Thursday night with two runners on since 1900. And if the right fielder happens to be blowing his nose before Turner swings the bat, Josh will give you the "metric" on all hitting situations for right handed batters in the 7th inning while the right fielder is blowing his nose on a Thursday night when the moon is in Pisces and the concession stand has run out of peanuts and so on and so forth. Howie will speak from encyclopedic Mets experience and Josh, unable to match him, will resort to the computer he has in front of him to provide information that is utterly useless and irrelevant to one's enjoyment of the game.

Sorry for going on and on, but I want this man on a bus out of town post-haste.








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