Mario Solis
Watch Your Step. Oh No!
07/09/10 23:34 Filed in: Baseball
How about an infield of Vic Martinez at first, Dustin
Pedroia at second, Jed Lowrie as short, and Mike
Lowell at third. You’ve got Jason Veritek behind the
plate, and Jacoby Ellsbury and Jeremy Hermida in the
outfield. Starting pitchers are Josh Beckett and Clay
Buchholz, and there are Manny Delcarmen and Junichi
Tazawa in the bullpen. Not to shabby of a major
league team.
Well, it’s not a team, it’s the current Boston Red Sox disabled list.
How about this list of players: Jake Peavy, Grady Sizemore, Kendry Morales, Josh Fields, Greg Zahn, Joe Nathan, Kelvim Escobar, Justin Duchscherer, Travis Buck, J.P. Howell, Dustin McGowan, and Joel Zumaya.
Pretty good nucleus for a team? Or two?
Those are some of the major league players who this year have suffered season-ending injuries, some as early as spring training, some as recent as Jake Peavy’s injury this past week.
The Philadelphia Phillies played a big chunk of the season without Jimmy Rollins, and J.A. Happ has pitched 10 innings. Placido Polanco, Carlos Ruiz, and Chase Utley are currently disabled and will be for some time.
Starting pitchers Brandon Webb, Edinson Volquez, Eric Bedard, Chien-Ming Wang, and Jordan Zimmerman have yet to throw a pitch on a major league field this season, and Carlos Beltran has yet to step foot on CitiField this year.
The Braves are still in first despite injuries to Nate McLouth and rookie sensation Jason Hayward; the Orioles are still last despite injuries to Brian Roberts, Mike Gonzales, Luke Scott, Jim Johnson and Kevin Millwood. Injuries in the past few days have thrown the AL Central askew, with the White Sox losing Peavy and the Tigers losing Zumaya, for the duration, as did earlier the Twins lose Nathan. Had the last place Indians not lost Sizemore, Asdrubal Cabrera, and now Shin-Soo Chu, they might have been in that race.
I’ll hold off mentioning Dodger starting pitchers, Manny, and the Angels and Morales and Maicer Izturis, and..... Do I really have to go on?
When has there been a season with this number of major injuries? None that I can remember in the more than 50 years that I’ve been a fan.
A final note: HE DID IT AGAIN TONIGHT! Mario Solis on tonight’s late news sports segment, talking about the possibility of Derek FIsher signing with Miami, “quoted” Kobe regarding Fisher being indispensible to the Lakers, thusly: “Fisher’s significance cannot be understated.”
Well, it’s not a team, it’s the current Boston Red Sox disabled list.
How about this list of players: Jake Peavy, Grady Sizemore, Kendry Morales, Josh Fields, Greg Zahn, Joe Nathan, Kelvim Escobar, Justin Duchscherer, Travis Buck, J.P. Howell, Dustin McGowan, and Joel Zumaya.
Pretty good nucleus for a team? Or two?
Those are some of the major league players who this year have suffered season-ending injuries, some as early as spring training, some as recent as Jake Peavy’s injury this past week.
The Philadelphia Phillies played a big chunk of the season without Jimmy Rollins, and J.A. Happ has pitched 10 innings. Placido Polanco, Carlos Ruiz, and Chase Utley are currently disabled and will be for some time.
Starting pitchers Brandon Webb, Edinson Volquez, Eric Bedard, Chien-Ming Wang, and Jordan Zimmerman have yet to throw a pitch on a major league field this season, and Carlos Beltran has yet to step foot on CitiField this year.
The Braves are still in first despite injuries to Nate McLouth and rookie sensation Jason Hayward; the Orioles are still last despite injuries to Brian Roberts, Mike Gonzales, Luke Scott, Jim Johnson and Kevin Millwood. Injuries in the past few days have thrown the AL Central askew, with the White Sox losing Peavy and the Tigers losing Zumaya, for the duration, as did earlier the Twins lose Nathan. Had the last place Indians not lost Sizemore, Asdrubal Cabrera, and now Shin-Soo Chu, they might have been in that race.
I’ll hold off mentioning Dodger starting pitchers, Manny, and the Angels and Morales and Maicer Izturis, and..... Do I really have to go on?
When has there been a season with this number of major injuries? None that I can remember in the more than 50 years that I’ve been a fan.
A final note: HE DID IT AGAIN TONIGHT! Mario Solis on tonight’s late news sports segment, talking about the possibility of Derek FIsher signing with Miami, “quoted” Kobe regarding Fisher being indispensible to the Lakers, thusly: “Fisher’s significance cannot be understated.”
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What a Guy!
07/02/10 23:29 Filed in: Baseball
What a guy! What a player. Amazing! Hiroki Kuroda was
the Dodger starter tonight in Arizona, and then
somehow he managed to get to Angel Stadium to come to
the plate in the 10th, and make the final Angel out
in their loss to Kansas City!
Well, that’s what Mario Solis told his audience tonight on the Channel 4 late news.
Looking at the film, I could have sworn that last batter was Hideki Matsui.
Well, that’s what Mario Solis told his audience tonight on the Channel 4 late news.
Looking at the film, I could have sworn that last batter was Hideki Matsui.
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Ole' Mario Does It Again, and a Couple of Other Things
03/21/10 23:30 Filed in: Baseball
The amount of information that Mario Solis does not
know about sports in general and baseball in
particular is mind boggling.
On tonight's KNBC-TV late news coverage of today's Dodgers' preseason game, he demonstrated new levels of incompetence, even for him.
In describing a late-inning hit off the bat of a young Cleveland Indian's outfielder by the name of Constanza, Mario showed a clip of Dodger Xavier Paul having trouble retrieving the ball in center field, and even said, out loud, that Paul bobbled the ball, not once, but twice. Then what does Mario say? Well, that it was an inside-the-park home run for Constanza. An inside-the-park home run! Solis not only showed film of not one, but possibly two errors on the play, he also described the mistakes by Paul. And then he called the triple and error, an inside-the-park home run.
In a much more important note, Vin Scully was back in the booth, with no evidence of any lingering problems after the fall a couple of nights ago that scared all of Los Angeles. At the time, my thoughts, which I'm sure were shared by thousands of LA sports fans, were of how similar the event at first sounded like the fall suffered eight years ago by Chick Hearn, from which he never recovered.
Finally, a word about Cleveland and their evolving pitching staff. In the past decade, they have developed three great starting pitchers. CC Sabathia developed into a star with Cleveland, and when it became obvious that he would take the money and run, they dealt him to Milwaukee. Cliff Lee followed a similar pattern, going last year to the Phillies. The third of this group, and just about as talented as the others, is Jake Westbrook. Westbrook had his best season in 2007, and has pitched little since, missing part of the 2008 season, and all but five games last year. He appears to be healthy and regaining his form, and in 4-2/3 innings against the Dodgers today allowed one run and struck out three. National league teams that need a quality starter this coming August, you know where to look.
On tonight's KNBC-TV late news coverage of today's Dodgers' preseason game, he demonstrated new levels of incompetence, even for him.
In describing a late-inning hit off the bat of a young Cleveland Indian's outfielder by the name of Constanza, Mario showed a clip of Dodger Xavier Paul having trouble retrieving the ball in center field, and even said, out loud, that Paul bobbled the ball, not once, but twice. Then what does Mario say? Well, that it was an inside-the-park home run for Constanza. An inside-the-park home run! Solis not only showed film of not one, but possibly two errors on the play, he also described the mistakes by Paul. And then he called the triple and error, an inside-the-park home run.
In a much more important note, Vin Scully was back in the booth, with no evidence of any lingering problems after the fall a couple of nights ago that scared all of Los Angeles. At the time, my thoughts, which I'm sure were shared by thousands of LA sports fans, were of how similar the event at first sounded like the fall suffered eight years ago by Chick Hearn, from which he never recovered.
Finally, a word about Cleveland and their evolving pitching staff. In the past decade, they have developed three great starting pitchers. CC Sabathia developed into a star with Cleveland, and when it became obvious that he would take the money and run, they dealt him to Milwaukee. Cliff Lee followed a similar pattern, going last year to the Phillies. The third of this group, and just about as talented as the others, is Jake Westbrook. Westbrook had his best season in 2007, and has pitched little since, missing part of the 2008 season, and all but five games last year. He appears to be healthy and regaining his form, and in 4-2/3 innings against the Dodgers today allowed one run and struck out three. National league teams that need a quality starter this coming August, you know where to look.
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Mario - Who Are the Other Two Schools?
I've laid off Mario Solis for a while. Well, actually
I've avoided listening to him for awhile.
Unfortunately, I saw his broadcast tonight, and I'm glad I did.
Otherwise, how would I have known that the major west-coast college sports conference has added two additional schools. Yep, according to Mario, UCLA, the brain surgeons, and the others now play in the PAC-12!
Thanks for the info, Mario.
Unfortunately, I saw his broadcast tonight, and I'm glad I did.
Otherwise, how would I have known that the major west-coast college sports conference has added two additional schools. Yep, according to Mario, UCLA, the brain surgeons, and the others now play in the PAC-12!
Thanks for the info, Mario.
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Thanks to Solid Defense, Bruins Start is Now 3-0, and another Mario Solis Update
09/19/09 22:36 Filed in: College
Football
Well, another stupendous game by the defense, a solid
running attack featuring constantly improving
offensive-line play and Johnathan Franklin's first
100-yard game, and the consistent kicking of Kai
Forbath all combined to pull the Bruins through to a
victory without Kevin Prince. I do have to give Kevin
Craft credit for playing a decent game for three
quarters. He was efficient through the first half,
and played a solid forth quarter. The fact hat he did
his best to give the game away in the third quarter
can, for tonight, be overlooked, especially with the
prospect that he may have to play only one more game
until Prince's return.
What was most upsetting, though, was the fact that the team committed EIGHT penalties, seemingly all eight at critical times, and, as you would expect, almost all eight were committed by the offense. Coach Neuheisel, in his post-game comments, said that with the bye week, the next two weeks would be a "training camp" for the team, and this is one of the major areas that needs to be addressed.
The Pac-10 is shaping up to be very interesting this season, with California now the team to beat, a much improved Husky Dawg team at U-Dub, and new life, new enthusiasm, and talent on both sides of the ball, at UCLA.
On his broadcast tonight, in describing the Bruin game and Kansas States' extra-point flub, our boy Mario called it a failed two-point attempt.
What was most upsetting, though, was the fact that the team committed EIGHT penalties, seemingly all eight at critical times, and, as you would expect, almost all eight were committed by the offense. Coach Neuheisel, in his post-game comments, said that with the bye week, the next two weeks would be a "training camp" for the team, and this is one of the major areas that needs to be addressed.
The Pac-10 is shaping up to be very interesting this season, with California now the team to beat, a much improved Husky Dawg team at U-Dub, and new life, new enthusiasm, and talent on both sides of the ball, at UCLA.
On his broadcast tonight, in describing the Bruin game and Kansas States' extra-point flub, our boy Mario called it a failed two-point attempt.
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In the Sleeply Little Town of Seattle, and a Mario Solis Update
09/19/09 16:11 Filed in: College
Football
In my last post, I inquired:
"So, which top-five team will lose this weekend?"
Well, in the sleepy little town of Seattle, Wash., the might Husky DAWGS defeated the University of Spoiled Children Brain Surgeons 16-13!!!
All is right in the world of college football.
Oh, and according to Mario Solis, as he reported on his sportscast on the Channel 4 KNBC news last night, later today the UCLA Bruins will be playing Kansas City.
Well, in the sleepy little town of Seattle, Wash., the might Husky DAWGS defeated the University of Spoiled Children Brain Surgeons 16-13!!!
All is right in the world of college football.
Oh, and according to Mario Solis, as he reported on his sportscast on the Channel 4 KNBC news last night, later today the UCLA Bruins will be playing Kansas City.
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Once Again, How Does Mario Solis Keep His Job?
Once again, Mario Solis has shown that he is the
worst announcer currently reporting sports news in
the western world.
This evening on the Channel 4 News, he told listeners, to their shock, that budding star Clayton Kershaw injured his shoulder during batting practice before today's game, and that he would miss his next start.
Frightening news. Terrible news. Could it be serious? Will he miss the rest of the season and the playoffs? Is his career in jeopardy?
All unanswered questions, but likely too early to have any answers.
But wait! Solis never said which shoulder was injured.
A quick turn to Yahoo! Sports, and it was immediately seen, with great relief, that he hurt his RIGHT shoulder, so all those thoughts of a career-threatening injury to his pitching shoulder were eased.
Solis, of course, probably doesn't even know that Kershaw is lefty.
This evening on the Channel 4 News, he told listeners, to their shock, that budding star Clayton Kershaw injured his shoulder during batting practice before today's game, and that he would miss his next start.
Frightening news. Terrible news. Could it be serious? Will he miss the rest of the season and the playoffs? Is his career in jeopardy?
All unanswered questions, but likely too early to have any answers.
But wait! Solis never said which shoulder was injured.
A quick turn to Yahoo! Sports, and it was immediately seen, with great relief, that he hurt his RIGHT shoulder, so all those thoughts of a career-threatening injury to his pitching shoulder were eased.
Solis, of course, probably doesn't even know that Kershaw is lefty.
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How Does Mario Solis Keep His Job?
Among the great sports announcers we've had in LA
over the years, from the play-by-play superstars like
Vin Scully, Chick Hearn, Bill King, and Ralph Lawler,
and the reporting stars, like Jim Healy, Dick Enberg,
and Fred Roggin, there have been quite a few
incompetents, most of whom have come and gone rather
quickly. However, for some mysterious reason, the
totally inept Mario Solis goes on and on in his job
at KNBC.
His lack of knowledge of virtually every major sport is more than evident in each of his broadcasts, but the worst parts of his segments are the regular mispronouncements of the names of athletes and others. Sure, there are the occasional foreign or especially difficult names that any announcer may occasionally mispronounce. But, with Solis, it is more often than not either the name of a local player, or an easy name of another athlete in the news.
Last night, for example, on his broadcast on the late news on Channel 4, KNBC, within about a minute, he made not one, but two egregious errors. First, he totally butchered his pronunciation of long-time Dodger and current Seattle Mariner third baseman, Adrian Beltre, and then, in describing the Dodger-Rockie game, he called Rockie infielder Clint Barmes, Clint Barnes. Not only that, but in the repeat of that same broadcast aired early this morning, he cleaned up the audio tape so that his mispronouncement of Adrian Beltre sounded not nearly so bad, but having no clue about anything to do with seven-year major league veteran player Clint Barmes (pronounced Bar-Mess), he left that as it was.
My local news channel of choice is Channel 4. I really like the late news with Paul Moyer (recently retired after decades in LA news), Colleen Williams, and now Chuck Henry, but I dread the days Fred Roggin is off.
theHoundDawg
His lack of knowledge of virtually every major sport is more than evident in each of his broadcasts, but the worst parts of his segments are the regular mispronouncements of the names of athletes and others. Sure, there are the occasional foreign or especially difficult names that any announcer may occasionally mispronounce. But, with Solis, it is more often than not either the name of a local player, or an easy name of another athlete in the news.
Last night, for example, on his broadcast on the late news on Channel 4, KNBC, within about a minute, he made not one, but two egregious errors. First, he totally butchered his pronunciation of long-time Dodger and current Seattle Mariner third baseman, Adrian Beltre, and then, in describing the Dodger-Rockie game, he called Rockie infielder Clint Barmes, Clint Barnes. Not only that, but in the repeat of that same broadcast aired early this morning, he cleaned up the audio tape so that his mispronouncement of Adrian Beltre sounded not nearly so bad, but having no clue about anything to do with seven-year major league veteran player Clint Barmes (pronounced Bar-Mess), he left that as it was.
My local news channel of choice is Channel 4. I really like the late news with Paul Moyer (recently retired after decades in LA news), Colleen Williams, and now Chuck Henry, but I dread the days Fred Roggin is off.
theHoundDawg