Originally Posted by
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I'm obviously not one of those pining for the broadcasts to turn completely analytics-based, so I'm OK with Chip and his overly-excited explosions at times - after all, most of us like to get fired-up when things happen since we're still Braves fans. As mentioned earlier, my biggest problem with pairing he and Joe together was the way he just kinda rolls over every time Joe decided to go off on some of his stupid rants. It's not like Frenchy will help much in discussing the numbers, but he can't possibly take Joe's "get off my lawn" stance toward them or they likely wouldn't have made this change in the first place. I'd expect that they also sat down with Chip and explained that a big part of the reason for the change has to do with the fact that he and Joe turned so many people off when they bitched about analytics that he needs to start working a lot more of the information he's being handed into the broadcasts or they'll replace him as well.
At the very least, most of Frenchy's stories will have much more to do with players our fans won't mind hearing instead of long-winded talks about how great it was to be part of the Dodgers' organization in the good old days.