Bay Area Sports Guy – Contest results – San Francisco Giants dominate the week

I tallied up all of the votes from this week, but before we get into the results let’s announce the contest winners:

Congratulations to Dwang and Peter, who each get a 10-person pizza party from Amici’s East Coast Pizzeria!

The Results

After adding up your responses from over 150 comments from the four posts, it’s clear that winning a World Series helps out in popularity contests such as these. First, let’s check out the results from Monday’s poll question:

1. What’s the best Warriors uniform of all time?

1966-71 (“The City”): 30%
1988-97 (Diagonal WARRIORS): 30%
1971-75 (Golden State title unis): 20%
1962-64 (SAN FRANCISCO): 5%
1964-66 (just plain “WARRIORS”): 5%
1986-88 (it’s getting harder to describe these): 5%
Current (but not with sleeves): 5%

It looks like the iconic “City” logo had some competition from the uniforms many of us grew up with. Not surprisingly, the lightning bolt uniforms that went away from the traditional color scheme from 1997-2010 garnered a grand total of zero votes.

2. What’s the best looking CURRENT uniform in the Bay Area?

Instead of separating this out into specific uniforms for each team, I just added up all the votes for each team. Because I’m lazy and good for nothing.

San Francisco Giants: 36%
Oakland Raiders: 20%
San Jose Sharks: 16%
San Francisco 49ers: 12%
Oakland A’s: 12%
Golden State Warriors: 4%

I wonder if the 49ers would have fared better if they had beaten the Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII. People seem to really like the Sharks’ black jerseys.

3. Who’s the best play-by-play announcer in the Bay Area?

Jon Miller: 50%
Duane Kuiper: 16%
Ken Korach: 13%
Randy Hahn: 6%
Dave Flemming: 6%
Dan Rusanowsky: 3%
Ted Robinson: 3%
Pat Olson: 3%

The Giants’ three play-by-play guys combined for almost three-quarters of the vote, which shows both the power of KNBR and how much respect those guys have, both in the Bay Area and nationally. I was surprised that Greg Papa didn’t receive one vote. I’d also like to give a little shoutout to Tim Roye — I couldn’t imagine calling NBA action as it happens, and he does a really good job of conveying what’s going on in real time.

4. Who is the best color commentator in the Bay Area?

Mike Krukow: 48%
Drew Remenda: 20%
Jim Barnett: 16%
Eric Davis: 8%
Ray Fosse: 4%
Todd Husak: 4%

Krukow is a polarizing figure, with several people expressing their dislike for the former hurler in the comments section. However, he also dominated when it came to people listing their favorites. Eliciting strong opinions is key for TV personalities, so Krukow is definitely doing something right. Working for the world champs helps, too.

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erik

Pat Olson also used to work at KNBR ages ago as the sports director. Radnich used to make fun of his play by play at USF on occasion.

Stan

Ohh.ok, Now "I'm Pat Olsen ,at KNBR" is coming to me. That was long before I was into sports radio..very causal listener. I was young,why listen when I could do?

Otis Byrd III

LOL. I'll be honest, I'm not going to doubt that, and I'm a Giants fan. Krukow was optimistic about the Giants, and make excuses for the Giants, even back in the lean years from 2005-2008. Yeah, a lot of it might be because it's his job and he might get fired if he constructively criticizes the Giants. I like Krukow and I think he is one of the better color TV analysts in baseball but yeah, his homerism of the Giants can be a little much at times. Fosse on the other hand is just boring. The guy does have good insights and you learn some things from him too, but him and Glen Kuiper aren't really that good of a good pairing. I think Fosse was better with Greg Papa though.

Fitz's Future Unemployment Check

His homerism is a lot more tolerable than Fitz. He's nowhere near as arrogant. Fitz will push his crap and never back down no matter how wrong he's proven.

I think Krukow is right near the top of Giantology An elder Giantologist. That's hard core man,hard core.

The difference between Krukow and Fosse? Fosse seems genuinely loyal to the gold and green of the A's. Krukow seems scary. Like he's the first captain in a cult called the Giants..not the SF Giants...but the team alone. Like its a religion. Fosse might try to woo a fan over with some positive A's spin. Krukow? You say anything against the Giants at night in a dark alley and he cuts you. And walks away whistling...

650Athletics

Shocking.

Who's Pat Olsen? Is he doing a pretend sport?

I think he calls USF basketball games on the radio. 95.7 airs some of their games from time to time.

Oh, Thanks. He got more mentions then the guy who does Cal basketball?

I think people were mentioning Pat Olsen just to be funny, maybe. I mean, I guess the guy is kind of good, from the very little that I heard of him. Bernstein is on either ESPN or Pac-12 Network, calling Pac-12 basketball games. Bernstein is pretty good, even though he's not as well known as Dave Flemming, even though his voice sounds just like Dave Flemming's voice to me. But yeah, Bernstein is good.

I would wonder if Greg Papa's creepy old man / Radnich wannabe radio persona on 95.7 has anything to do with it. Isn't he the only one with a daily radio show?

You must be young if you think Papa steals from Raddy. When I hear Raddy I hear Howard Stern,Cheech and Chong,Richard Pryor. Wrapped in a very poor Garrison Keller,Will Rogers. Ironic that his idols don't admire his right winger 'tude. But that's the FOX news side too..steal and twist to the right.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I don't know how you draw a line from Radnich to Stern, Pryor, or Cheech and Chong. The biggest difference obviously being that Stern, Pryor, or Cheech and Chong actually have talent and are entertaining.

I think he's really good, but yeah my perceptions of him are definitely affected by that. Of all the Bay Area guys he's got the most recognizable scoring call. Well, it may be less recognizable since the Raiders suck and don't score as often. Even I'll give some love to "TOUCHDOWN RAAAAAAIIIDERS!"