Just got off the phone with Mark Ibanez, who's taken a slew of hits for his report on Monday night's KTVU sportscast proclaiming that the Giants win brought the Bay Area its "first World Series championship."
"It was a 'heat of the moment thing--I meant to say that 'it was the Giants' first ever World Series title for the city of San Francisco--and I had no intention of slighting Oakland A's fans." (The Athletics won three straight World Series from 1972-1974, and again in 1989)
Knowing Ibanez, who's a full-fledged Bay Area sports fan, I say take the man for his word. He wasn't dissing Oakland or the A's.
Of course he wasn't intentionally dissing the A's -- he just failed to do his homework. He has ample time to prepare his sportscast -- he's not exactly doing breaking news here -- and there is no excuse for his poor wording and failure to see his error.
ReplyDeleteTalk about bandwagoneering-Radnich announced HE will be on the KNBR float during the parade! The man who picked against the team through the playoffs,AND made it clear HE wasnt going to jump up and down for the team-like those "others"..is now on a parade float?! Hypocrite!
ReplyDelete> Radnich announced HE will be on the KNBR float...
ReplyDeleteI must have missed that. I know Lee Hammer was on earlier with Uncle Gary, and said that Gary would be anchoring the broadcast from Hawthorne. They must have changed the plan in the last five minutes of today's show.
Anon, re: Radnich: Gary Radnich gets to do what he wants because the Giants allow him to. They gave him a prominent role at KNBR and also CSNBA. They even show his radio show on cable TV. I can't stand the man, personally, but the Giants must love him, even though he bashes the team contantly. As for Ibanez, I can forgive him. It's just a bad choice of words. I'm pretty sure he was on KTVU when the A's won in 1989, and if he's from this area, he had to know the 70s teams, too. The Giants brought *their* first championship to the Bay Area, and certainly the first for the National League team.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible I misheard about Radnich on the float. So,its just a case of a man who backed the other teams-first Phillie and never once saying the Giants over the Rangers,and who also said he would never do anything homerish..is going to announce the victory parade? OK. Well,that's a big difference. Will he be in mascots costume?
ReplyDeleteIbanez is a longtime A's fan. Take his word.
ReplyDeleteMark Ibanez is a good guy, he most likely just mis-spoke due to the excitement of the occasion.
ReplyDeleteOut of all the Sports Pundits in the Bay Area, Mark gets it right most of the time, and is not a phony.
i interned at KTVU. Mark is a douche
ReplyDeleteA guy by the name of Alexander Haig once misspoke during the "heat of the moment" give Mark a break. Seems to come across as a good journalist and is not full of himself like most of the bandwagon jumping media types are.
ReplyDeleteMark Ibanez is far and away the best sportscaster in the Bay Area; cut him some slack. Some of you are hyper-sensitive.
ReplyDelete> Gary Radnich gets to do what he wants because the Giants allow him to. They gave him a prominent role at KNBR and also CSNBA. They even show his radio show on cable TV.
ReplyDeleteWhat don't you get? The Giants didn't get him those jobs -- not one of them. And Gary's been working at KNBR for 19 years -- long before the station bought into the team.
> So,its just a case of a man who backed the other teams...
And what don't you get? Gary's job is to get listeners to call in, to "move the dial" as they say in the business. Gary is a lifelong Giants fan.
From 9 AM to noon, he says what he thinks will garner a response from the listeners. He often (jeez, at least every 15 minutes) says something that is meant to get listeners to pick up the phone and dial.
It would be amusing to see the reaction from the opposing side if he had mis-spoke and said, "Giants wins their first world series championship ever in franchise history"
ReplyDeleteWell,David F.,your are dead wrong as Radnich himself said Larry Baer wanted him to do this years pre and post Giant shows on Comcast.So,Comcast and KNBR's relationship isnt platonic. KNBR in fact owns part of Comcast sports net west. And it seems pretty obvious that his bizarre reaction to the Giants playoff runs put off the Giants org.
ReplyDeleteEven his partner Dan Dibbly went off the deep end with anti Giant pronouncements in all the playoffs and series.
My feeling is he has lasted this long because their was no internet,no cable to show that the news sports guy isnt just a non homer for local teams all these years,he's not even in tune with most of the bay area. The guy is strange,for example-he's on his knee's praising his business connection friends with full force sucking with no shame,and then thinks he's original to pick the other team?
More weirdness:You notice that all the bigshots he brags are his true personal friends like the developer or the banker or Lee Hammer...are all white? For somebody who calls African Americans brother and drops go girl on Pam Moore, and of course has a black wife half his age...just talks like a lilly white man at the country club about his " real" friends and their shared sensibilities.
Mark is a nice guy to everyone. I worked there like 10 years ago, and I noticed he was cool to staff and non-staff, including interns. He remembers people's names.
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