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Originally Posted by DaddyO
The bottom line is it corresponds well with the experience of listening to a ball game on the radio, which many of DMB's adherents used to do before there were so many games on TV. Perhaps THAT's why it's hard to duplicate. If you didn't grow up in the radio generation, you can't possibly have the remembrance that the artistry of radio pBp is what hooked many of us on baseball in the first place. You had to visualize the game through words, and the artistry of the announcer had to capture the drama of the game without any visuals at all.
Just my .02.
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I've not played DMB, so I can't comment, but I will say this is true. While I like a good TV presentation, I much more enjoy sitting outside with a radio, listening to Milo Hamilton call the action. There's just a flow required to tell the story over the radio that just isn't needed for a TV PbP man to learn.