Watching Baseball On The Radio

How do you watch baseball on the radio you may ask? Its simple, just listen to broadcaster Jon Miller call a Giants game, or any game for that matter.

Jon Miller is a baseball play-by-play caller who entertains while he educates listeners. He's so much of what many announcers in baseball are not. You'll never get a dull monotone delivery of a game by Jon no matter what the play on the field might reflect. He paints a baseball picture using his baseball knowledge, tone of voice and language which lets listeners know where they are, who their watching, pitcher and hitter's history and so much more. When you're done listening to Jon Miller call a game you feel as if you've just sat in the broadcasters booth with him and it were just you and Jon watching a game of baseball together. Imagine that, watching a master perform his craft up close.

Baseball being a game of many pauses, Jon's unique gift is his ability to fill in the silence with a rhythmic story that gives the game a musical harmony. And unlike many announcers in sports he knows how to captivate listeners at that dramatic moment in a baseball game where the tension is so thick that nothing else in life seems to matter other than the next pitch and/or the next swing of the bat.

As Miller lowers his dialogue (he talks with us) to a whisper to announce the pitch, we listen to his pause like parishioners at a bible belt revival meeting under a big tent, waiting for God or Satan one to make their presence known. What we get is not a blessing or a curse, but Miller's follow up call describing the batter's reaction or inaction to the pitch. With bated breathe we pause to hear the fate of our team's success or failure in this inning of the story so wonderfully narrated by Jon.

Yes folks, Jon Miller is a jewel to hold up to our eyes, examine with wonder and amazement then cherish the sparkling gift of creative sports broadcasting he distills. We are so fortunate to have in our treasury of baseball today a voice that rivals those announcers of earlier baseball lore.

Thanks for sharing you're love of baseball with us Jon. I am a better student of the game because of you. Keep resonating through the airwaves.