Lip Man 1 Posted December 26, 2024 Author Share Posted December 26, 2024 On 12/26/2024 at 2:44 AM, Buehrle>Wood said: Schriffen does/has done all of those. Expand I'd suggest there is a real difference between calling the G-League, Slam-Ball and UFC compared to calling MLB, NFL, major college football and basketball games. The fact that Jason has been given those opportunities says something about what those in charge think of his abilities. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted December 29, 2024 Author Share Posted December 29, 2024 From Paul Sullivan's sports year wrap up column on Sunday: Top 5 Schriff-isms The most memorable calls of first-year Sox broadcaster John Schriffen: “For all the haters …” “South Side, stand up!” “Radio losers” “We ain’t takin’ that.” “I need this win.” 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 On 12/29/2024 at 5:29 PM, Lip Man 1 said: From Paul Sullivan's sports year wrap up column on Sunday: Top 5 Schriff-isms The most memorable calls of first-year Sox broadcaster John Schriffen: “For all the haters …” “South Side, stand up!” “Radio losers” “We ain’t takin’ that.” “I need this win.” Expand All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteSox2023 Posted December 29, 2024 Share Posted December 29, 2024 On 12/29/2024 at 5:29 PM, Lip Man 1 said: From Paul Sullivan's sports year wrap up column on Sunday: Top 5 Schriff-isms The most memorable calls of first-year Sox broadcaster John Schriffen: “For all the haters …” “South Side, stand up!” “Radio losers” “We ain’t takin’ that.” “I need this win.” Expand Haha, the “We ain’t takin’ that” was so cringy and epic due to the timing. The Sox were already terrible and Schriffen was trying to hype up a brawl with the Brewers. Awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted December 30, 2024 Author Share Posted December 30, 2024 On 12/29/2024 at 8:36 PM, greg775 said: All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad. Expand While the comments against him by others in the Chicago media may have been unfair (personally I don't think so) there is no way you win in that situation by responding publicly, and making it worse was that it was on the broadcast itself as opposed to say on social media. It was unprofessional and childish and that comes from someone who has been in broadcasting since 1978. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 On 12/29/2024 at 8:36 PM, greg775 said: All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad. Expand Not to mention he thought Pham was his "bro" but in the end Tommy made fun of him upon leaving for always hanging around the players/clubhouse. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 On 12/30/2024 at 1:58 AM, caulfield12 said: Not to mention he thought Pham was his "bro" but in the end Tommy made fun of him upon leaving for always hanging around the players/clubhouse. Expand What a dummy. You always got the feeling Hawk/Stoney while making regular contact with players didn't try to bond with the boys in the locker room. Even though he's young, Schiff is not prime 'become one of us' material with the players. Leave 'em alone; ask 'em something while flying by once in a while. Do an interview when u are supposed to. Don't force things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteSox2023 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 (edited) On 12/30/2024 at 4:05 AM, greg775 said: What a dummy. You always got the feeling Hawk/Stoney while making regular contact with players didn't try to bond with the boys in the locker room. Even though he's young, Schiff is not prime 'become one of us' material with the players. Leave 'em alone; ask 'em something while flying by once in a while. Do an interview when u are supposed to. Don't force things Expand Sadly, you would be mistaken, at least with Hawk. Nothing beats when Hawk left the booth to check on Todd Frazier… 🤣 Edited December 30, 2024 by WhiteSox2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 On 12/30/2024 at 4:25 AM, WhiteSox2023 said: Sadly, you would be mistaken, at least with Hawk. Nothing beats when Hawk left the booth to check on Todd Frazier… 🤣 Expand The difference is that Harrelson was a former big leaguer...and that was more of a "paternalistic" concern, versus a non-athlete trying to ingratiate himself with the players by hanging out with them. Plus Harrelson obviously golfed a lot with the players during the course of the season as well. There's a lot of camaraderie we don't ever see that takes place on the course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted December 30, 2024 Share Posted December 30, 2024 On 12/30/2024 at 4:05 AM, greg775 said: What a dummy. You always got the feeling Hawk/Stoney while making regular contact with players didn't try to bond with the boys in the locker room. Even though he's young, Schiff is not prime 'become one of us' material with the players. Leave 'em alone; ask 'em something while flying by once in a while. Do an interview when u are supposed to. Don't force things Expand What do you know about relationships with professional athletes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/john-schriffen-going-into-second-year-white-sox-broadcaster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3GamesToLove Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Mike Monaco is in Melbourne now doing some work for ESPN on the Australian Open. He was at Wimbledon last year, too. A natural at any sport he does. A total pro, someone clearly in demand. But we wouldn't want to have hired someone like that, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestEddy Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 On 12/30/2024 at 1:58 AM, caulfield12 said: Not to mention he thought Pham was his "bro" but in the end Tommy made fun of him upon leaving for always hanging around the players/clubhouse. Expand One would hope that will be part of his stated growth. Steve Stone or Hawk might garner respect for having played the game. Bennetti earned it through his preparation. Maybe Shriffen will become the trash talk announcer that players start to think is cool in time. He's got to get there, first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 I will save Lip the work of adding an ellipse to this one... https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2025/01/16/chicago-sports-media-power-rankings-the-bottom-five-cole-wright-tom-thayer-david-haugh-mike-mulligan-john-schriffen?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01172025 Morning Edition&utm_content=01172025 Morning Edition+CID_39e9ca72b7c3f708ec38b4167b7a3bf9&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=his bottom five rankings&tpcc=cst_cm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 3:20 PM, southsider2k5 said: I will save Lip the work of adding an ellipse to this one... https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports-media/2025/01/16/chicago-sports-media-power-rankings-the-bottom-five-cole-wright-tom-thayer-david-haugh-mike-mulligan-john-schriffen?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01172025 Morning Edition&utm_content=01172025 Morning Edition+CID_39e9ca72b7c3f708ec38b4167b7a3bf9&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=his bottom five rankings&tpcc=cst_cm Expand Schiff made a list? Congrats! Better to be loved OR hated than... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tray Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Sullivan has been covering sports in Chicago for decades. I find his criticism of a young broadcaster to be unseemly and highly inappropriate. Maybe time for him to retire. What a jerk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Mercedes Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 12/29/2024 at 8:36 PM, greg775 said: All those calls are embarrassing. When you have a 42-win team, cmon, as much as you want to get excited, the team has prevented that. Any attempt at being 'overly' positive is ridiculous. You have to treat each game as its own but the big picture of team suckiness can never be ignored. South Side Stand Up is so bad. The haters and losers thing is counterproductive. And the final two are not worth commenting on they are so bad. Expand Any of the homers on Soxtalk could’ve done his job the way he did it. Unfortunately for him, he came on board when most Sox fans would rather he sign off every game “sell the team”. He would not last long, but it would’ve been heroic. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 5:42 PM, tray said: Sullivan has been covering sports in Chicago for decades. I find his criticism of a young broadcaster to be unseemly and highly inappropriate. Maybe time for him to retire. What a jerk. Expand Siri define irony for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Deep Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Man, Schriff living rent free in people's heads. To me he was one of the few entertaining qualities of last years SOX/Production (I understand he has got to grow and be better but I was entertained by him) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46DidIt Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 6:31 PM, southsider2k5 said: Siri define irony for me. Expand Is Siri malfunctioning? That’s not irony 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 On 1/17/2025 at 6:42 PM, 2Deep said: Man, Schriff living rent free in people's heads. To me he was one of the few entertaining qualities of last years SOX/Production (I understand he has got to grow and be better but I was entertained by him) Expand somebody said he mispronounced veeck's name. You can't do that period. Chicagoans are unforgiving when somebody is that dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehrle>Wood Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 On 1/17/2025 at 6:42 PM, 2Deep said: Man, Schriff living rent free in people's heads. To me he was one of the few entertaining qualities of last years SOX/Production (I understand he has got to grow and be better but I was entertained by him) Expand He's great. Chicago media furious they didn't hire one of their many boys though so he has to work through that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 He is pretty bad at this job, and it wasn’t only noticed locally. Some people just enjoy bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 On 1/18/2025 at 4:55 AM, Buehrle>Wood said: He's great. Chicago media furious they didn't hire one of their many boys though so he has to work through that. Expand I have some big-time issues with the Chicago sports media. It is very clannish. But Schriffen is awful. And he is not going to improve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteSox2023 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 (edited) On 1/18/2025 at 4:55 AM, Buehrle>Wood said: He's great. Chicago media furious they didn't hire one of their many boys though so he has to work through that. Expand Uhhh, no. No one cares about Connor McKnight that much. Although he probably wouldn’t have stuck his foot in his mouth as many times as Schriffen already has, had he been hired instead. Edited January 18 by WhiteSox2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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