As a Ranger fan of 45 years, I see and hear NOTHING wrong with that call at all...and I'm pretty sure Sam didn't either. Dave is a NY Ranger with every ounce of his being. Let it go Mike...
Maloney was in the moment. I see nothing wrong with that call, it was full of enthusiasm. Michael Kay is bringing up something irrelevant. Don is 100% correct. great moment great call.
where was Kay when everyone in the MSG booth was screaming when Stephan Matteau scored the game winner against the Devils back in 94? These announcers are local. They are genuine, passionate, and emotionally invested in the team they make the broadcast for. In other words, they ARE FANS of the team. Maloney reaction was what every Ranger fans reaction was, it was real, it was spontaneous, and it was beautiful. No one in the United States would be listening to the MSG radio broadcast of the game who are not Rangers or Canes fans living in the Tri-State area. In this situation, Kay is the Gym Bro recording a newcomer in the gym, posting it to social media, simply to mock and denigrate the person for clicks. In the words of Joey Swol: "Mind your own business and do better!"
Michael doesn’t know squat about hockey. An OT goal happens in a wink & doesn’t gradually unfold like a game winning HR. He needs to stick w/topics he’s qualified to talk about.
I had zero problem with that call.. I am 60something too and I sounded ridiculous too in an overtime game there is nothing like playoff hockey and an overtime goal. I hope to hear Dave screaming the same thing Monday too.. And I knew exactly what happened on that call. It was obvious.. visceral is exactly what it was and its exactly how a Rangers fan reacted. You sound like a closet Canes fan to me Mike. Wow what an overreaction to a call, its sad to me Mike can't imagine a play in a game by his favorite team that causes an immediate visceral reaction. I guess you've never had that experience. SAD
That play and that goal transpired so quickly. Maloney - as much of a Rangers fan as all of us if not more so - got caught up in the moment because how quickly it occurred. Michael calls baseball games, whose plays don’t move anywhere as fast as those in hockey, so he’s got more time to process the call/reaction.
Oh ffs, nothing wrong with that. Thank god we have both Sam and Dave in there!! I'd rather have a guy at 67, who is emotionally invested. Than a wet blanket robot.
As a die hard Cubs fan, we had longtime Cubs great and Hall of Famer Ron Santo in our radio booths for decades. He was a dear friend of my uncle and I got to have dinner with him and talk baseball; greatest honor of my life. He was one of us. A fan above all. He used to do things just like this; and let me tell you…as a fan? All we wished for was for him to have still been alive to do this exact thing when we finally won the World Series. He passed away in 2010, six years before. Fans love this. We love having “one of us” reacting to our team’s greatest moments. Anyone who has an issue with it, sit and spin. Love it.
I love hearing the obvious joy, but I also like hearing the actual call of the game. I'm not gonna bash the guy over it, but I would prefer he show that enthusiasm like 5 seconds later.
Also, I grew up watching Yankee games with Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto doing the color. To this day, in the seventh inning stretch, I remember Scooter saying his goodbyes for the day because he had to pick up the canoli and get home to his wife Cora. Those days, watching my team play their worst stretch of my lifetime, were some of my favorite times watching baseball. And it was Rizzuto who made it that way.
...AND, you also had Harry Caray, who couldn't hide his feelings at all. And that was fantastic! Most of us do not want the LOCAL announcers to play it straight down the middle! Let the national or international broadcasters play it neutral. If a Cubs batter popped up in a clutch spot, Harry Caray would say, "Could you believe it? Could you believe it?He's making millions, and he popped it up!!!" I'm also a lifelong Rangers fan, and I think that it was hyperbole by Michael to say that Dave "trampled" over Sam's call. You could still hear Sam Rosen's actual call. Dave was expressing exactly what WE were feeling! BTW, they make a tremendous team.
Michael Kay is ridiculous "No one knew what happened"... No one cared about exactly how it happened, the Rangers scored, and Dave did what most fans would have done.
Longtime Rangers fan here. First, love Don and don’t appreciate disrespect paid to him by Michael. Next, totally love Dave as lifelong Blueshirts fan reflexively responding to unbelievable moment in sudden death second round OT win! All Rangers fans had same reaction!!! NOTHING compares to SC playoffs!!! Did Michael criticize Suzyn Waldman for going orgasmic gaga idiotic ‘goodness gracious!!!’ in 2007 when Clemens came back??
Call was great and I absolutely adore Sam Rosen. He's called every game since I became a ranger fan when I was 8 years old in 1987. Michael Kay on the other hand has not aged well and don lagreca is absolutely insufferable. No doubt Kay knows the game but he has these insecure freakout moments constantly and it's really getting tired.
I love Kay, especially his play by play! However to question why Dave was giddy over an overtime playoff hockey goal! Micheal should listen to some of his Yankee calls! Go listen to him call the Jeter diving in the stands in 04! Talk about giddy! Again I love Micheal!
Michael Kay is such a corporate shill. Nobody who's actually a Rangers Fan cared. I don't need to hear Sam, in the moment, talk about the deflection and angle and all that. Everybody listening did the same thing Dave did. Michael can stick to having convos about which cafe they enjoy while simultaneously having the worst HR call in the whole MLB. What a dork.
Dave's a legend. So he got a bit over-excited. I know I sure did! Was it one of the great moments in broadcasting history? Obviously not. But I will always get a little rise when I think of it. I think you're missing the point a bit. Sam has had more hall of fame moments in his career than he can remember. I bet he loved it, but the MSG guys will probably talk to Dave, ho hum.
I can see both sides of this. Dave Maloney is a Rangers legend, but this is one example of many why he's better on the radio. He has filled in for Joe Michelletti, as has John Giannone at times, and the difference is drastic between Joe and those two guys. Dave doesn't have the cadence or the voice for live TV. They are best in their role as the third man in the booth providing analysis between the benches a handful of times per game. At the same time, this is much ado about nothing and really rich coming from Michael Kay. And a fraction of people are actually listening on the radio. 90% of viewers will be tuned into ESPN (which is much worse) or if you're lucky SN or TNT.
Aren't Kay and the Yankee broadcast known for the most dead air in all of sports? Good calls when things happen but in between it's like midnight in the arctic.
That's not on Kay though. He's the play by play, it is his partners who are supposed to be filling in time, with Michael playing off of them. I miss having Kay and Jeff Nelson in the booth, they were always terrific together. But the best days were Kay and Bobby Murder and Ken Singleton. Tough act to follow.
He didn't trample over Sam Rosen but Maloney's reaction was ridiculous. I like Dave Maloney but he is just not good on commentary. He is best served as a studio analyst. LaGrecca is good but he has to play both sides of the fence and "say the right thing"
