Jon Miller

Has anyone been in an ATG league with SF Giants broadcaster Jon Miller?

I'm just wondering this because I saw the following quote on the Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365 home page:

I love Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365. It's like being the owner or GM of a team. I always try to get Mays, McCovey, Frank Robinson and my old broadcast partner Joe Morgan on my team. My favorite players come back to life every day when I check the box scores.

hmmm--

wonder if hes under a code name--
sounds like he might even be playing a high cap league with those players 'always' on his team.

JON wherefore art thou?

Was on a baseball cruise with him in the 90's...real down to earth...good guy

always liked jon miller. don't care for morgan at all. talks too much. love vin scully. listening to him is getting an education without even realizing it. wonderful!

The Giants have the best broadcast team (not counting Vin Scully of course, who is in a completely different realm) -- Miller, Kuiper, Krukow (Fleming is tolerable). Love listening to those guys, and I'm not particularly a Giants fan.

lol. i meant vin scully!!!

Very cool. I bet Miller is using some kind of alias, like 95% of us...


But what about other famous players? Have you ever been in a league with Doug Glanville or Keith Olbermann? Is that guy, "Glanny" the real Doug Glanville? I think Glanville might have a brother who also plays... I would love to be in a league with Keith Olbermann!

Jon Miller used to be one of the best things about being an Orioles fan -- one of the many horrifying moves by Peter Angelos was getting rid of him because he wasn't homer enough.

Once during a bad game where one of our bad pitchers rang up a 0-2 count then threw four straight balls, Miller said, "My friends, I wish you were sitting beside me in the booth right now so you can see exactly how astonished I really am." Super knowledgeable, super entertaining and made you feel like you were there and he was your best friend.

He wrote about introducing the Orioles to SOM during a team flight -- kicked Cal Ripken's butt! It's in his autobiography, the title of which escapes me at the moment. But he does in fact have a history with the game.

And BTW, it must be extremely weird to see your own Strato card. Whaddaya mean I'm a FOUR IN LEFT!!!!!

Whaddaya mean I'm a 1-8 RUNNER!!!!!

I wonder if players ever want to go to Glen Head to plead for ratings clemency...

I used to listen outdoors in the summer to John Miller do 'color' on the radio in the late 60's when the O's just started to be good. Barber, Estrada, and Bunker were very good pitchers who got hurt. Then Frank and Brooks and Boog and Blefary etc, Lots of fond memories. I lived just north of Boston and the Red Sox were dreadful, loved the O's, John Miller was a great voice coming in from the south side of the yard after 8:00 pm in the summer time. A great time in the 60's...

I agree Scully is in a class by himself at the top of baseball announcers. But Miller, too, is in a xlass by himself just under Vin.

Surprisingly, one of the very best color announcers I've heard is the Washington Nationals' F.P. Santangelo, who used to have a versatile Strat card in the board game in the late '80s. I've only heard Santangelo a couple of times on visits to D.C., but his analyses are so good and timely that I was taken aback. Wish to hell the Padres would hire him!