Ken Harrelson is the most-biased announcer ... duh!

So the folks at the Wall Street Journal decided to do themselves a little study, and determined that Chicago White Sox TV broadcasts are the most-biased in Major League Baseball, largely because of Ken "Hawk" Harrelson.

They might as well have booked me to fight both Klitschko brothers in the same day, because the result would be as much of a foregone conclusion.


But the worst part isn't even that Harrelson is biased. It's that he's terrible. Maybe because I was young and stupid and didn't know any better, but I swear he was better doing Yankees games in the late 1980s and the White Sox in the 1990s with Tom Paciorek. He probably was just as biased, but he was entertaining and actually provided knowledge about the game.

Now, however, the game is basically ways to fill time between "Stretch!" "You can put it on the board ... YES!" "He gone" and other set pieces.






The chart isn't the easiest to read (copying off a webpage isn't the easiest), but tied there in the seventh spot are Nationals announcers Bob Carpenter and F.P. Santangelo. I saw some games between the Phillies and Nationals earlier this year, plus the interleague series with the Yankees, and I didn't really detect much bias ... although that may have been because I was wondering how anyone so incompetent could be allowed in a broadcast booth.

And there at the bottom are the Yankees broadcast team of Michael Kay and his cast of thousands and the Red Sox team of Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo. In spite of my own personal Yankees bias, it's a fair ranking. Orsillo and Remy usually give a straightforward, honest call (Dennis Eckersley in the studio is a bonus), and the Yankees crew does the same. I actually find them a bit bland at times. Maybe they have to be to make up for John Sterling, who is biased, horrible and anything but bland in the radio booth.