"That's How You Don't Call the Action in a Baseball Game!"

I'll admit it, I like the Hawkisms. He can be really obnoxious when he fixates on one bad call or play. He hates umpires and thinks everyone is out to get him. But he is as much of a Sox homer as the rest of us Sox fans. Stone is the perfect counter part and he has really reigned him in over the past two years. Plus I love dropping a "he gone" in a casual conversation when appropriate. 

Also, how is the reference of Paulie's house over the viewers heads? Most people know Konerko is from Scottsdale. The guy has been on the team forever. This article is taking Harrelson way too serious.

I'll admit it, I like the Hawkisms. He can be really obnoxious when he fixates on one bad call or play. He hates umpires and thinks everyone is out to get him. But he is as much of a Sox homer as the rest of us Sox fans. Stone is the perfect counter part and he has really reigned him in over the past two years. Plus I love dropping a "he gone" in a casual conversation when appropriate. 

Also, how is the reference of Paulie's house over the viewers heads? Most people know Konerko is from Scottsdale. The guy has been on the team forever. This article is taking Harrelson way too serious.

Wait, you can count me out of the 'rest of us Sox fans' if I have to agree with Harrelson about umpires.

BTW, the best inning I ever watched was a Cubs game in which Stone, bored with whichever Carey the younger one was who took over from Harry, spoke French for the whole inning. It was genius.

It's funny, my husband loves that stuff. And he got me watching Sox games ... I mostly follow Alexei Ramirez. I want Hawk to adopt my nickname for him -- "Cheekbones".

Yep, we're dorks.

A) You mean he doesn't feel the need to jabber every second of the broadcast with well-meaning platitudes and snore-fest inducing back and forth like Brenly and Kaspar?  Oh darn.  You probably hate the pauses in a Vin Scully broadcast as well.

B)  Meh, I've seen worse attempts at catchphrases.  Sox used to have one who would say "Holy cow," though thankfully that never really caught on until the announcer moved on to another team.

C)  What's wrong with firing LaRussa during a losing season?  He's a average manager who's benefited from managing in a historically weak division.

D)  (Really, someone above is defending Darrin Jackson as a broadcaster?)

I'd have to agree I appreciate Hawk as an announcer as opposed to say Fox Jocks who prefer to talk about anything but the game that is on.

But really, Larussa = average?

He took the Cardinals to the playoffs 13 times, and all but 4 years since 2000. He's been managing 34 years, has 500 wins with 3 different teams,  World Series title in both leagues and has 4 manager of the year awards (one of which was with the White Sox). But then I suppose Joe Torre, Bobby Cox, Connie Mack, these are all just average managers as well?

 In re: (b), which of Hawk's 879 catchphrases have you seen worse attempts at? He seems to spew them so frequently I feel like they could give Stone a modified "that was easy" button and have him generate the phrases as needed.

As for LaRussa's firing . . . you know that the AL Central is also no great shakes, right? I would say that LaRussa rode steroids in Oakland and St. Louis more than divisional weakness.

You guys obviously don't play the Hawk Harrelson drinking game like we do at our house. His homerisms make for great drunken nights. "Can of Corn" alone could get you mightily hammered. 

They need to bring DJ back to TV to sit with Stone. Farmer and DJ don't get along well, and when all you have is their voices, their childish bickering and in-fighting is ridiculous. Hawk should retire, Stone takes his place, DJ returns to TV and someone from The Score or ESPN Radio can step up to learn the ropes and assist Farmer.

Hawk is the worst. I'd like to watch my hometown Royals on TV when they play the Sox, but the combination of bad baseball and awful commentary - sans Stone, who is the best in the business - allows me to pursue other avenues of entertainment.

I'm a Sox fan but I've hated Harrelson for years now. Ed Farmer's not much better.

Horrible. Just... Horrible.

I'm a Cubs fan (but not a Sox-hater... just don't care about them any more than I do, say, the Tampa Bay Rays), but I'd probably watch an occasional Sox game were it not for the unrestrained awfulness of Hawk Harrelson. He's awful. Every time I think to myself, "Hmm, no baseball on right now other than the Sox game... maybe I'll give it a watch," I wind up wanting to throw something at the TV because of him. I mean... Awful. The worst I've ever heard, by a wide, wide margin. Terrible.

This. Exactly this. Right down to the feelings about the Sox and the inability to watch even 10 seconds of a Sox game with the sound on.

I last until the first "He gone!", and then I see if FX is airing either Air Force One or Independence Day.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one that this new Hawk-ism annoyed.  Next to "Duck Snort", I think this is the one that pushes my buttons most.  It's just so random/obnoxious/crassly boastful.  On the other end of the spectrum it's like saying when A-Rod hits a HR:  "That's how you get to bang celebrity ho's.."

I'll also add Darrin Jackson's "Weeee got some work ta dooooo" (said in weird PR accent *or something?!*) to the hate pit.

DJ's "Weee got some work ta dooo" is the most annoying phrase.  I want to tear my eyeballs out whenever I hear him say that.  Considering the year the Sox have had so far, coupled with the frequency DJ says that, I'm surprised I'm able to see the computer screen as I type this comment. 

Glad it's not just me.  I cringe every time I hear it.

And Steve Stone on the television. I don't watch Sox games, but Stone is a genius. He knows it, and that can be annoying, but he knows baseball so well that it is uncanny. Of course, he's obviously done something to piss the gods off, since he worked with Harry, got Valley fever, then worked with Hawk. I realize that is a slightly compressed timeline, but sheesh.

I love Stone, if only he had somebody to compliment him as a partner.

And I've noticed on the few games this year I've been able to watch that Stone isn't really saying a whole lot.  The first year he seemed to really TRY to get along with Hawk.  Now I feel like he's just resigned to listen to stories of homeruns hit in the 1960s in Fenway Park.

If they won't get rid of Hawk, then bring back DJ as his partner.  That worked much better than Stone (and I love Steve Stone).

lol, yeah the long silence.  You can just imagine Stone sighing and doing a facepalm during it.