M’s need new broadcasters

Now that the baseball season is over, the Mariners are obviously going to do some “house cleaning.” I hope they do some “cleaning” at the level of TV announcers. Ron Fairly has to be as bad as any announcer I have heard at any level. He is repetitive, redundant, says the obvious and is commonly wrong. If you remove his favorite phrase, “There’s no question about that,” he would be a man of few words.

Dave Niehaus is getting some of Fairly’s bad habits. Also, I was very disappointed in his “performance” at the Edgar Martinez celebration. For a man who is supposed to be as accomplished as he is, and for the obvious importance of the occasion, I would have thought he would take the time and effort, and have the ability to memorize at least some of his presentation and not read 99 percent of it.

Wm. J. Hiatt

Spokane