Great color guy, he will be missed. Stros are lucky to have Jimmy D. http://houston.astros.mlb.com/NASAp...ent_id=1336815&vkey=pr_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou HOUSTON -- The Houston Astros announced today the club's radio broadcast team schedule for the April 2006 schedule of games. The games are divided amongst Hall of Famer Milo Hamilton and the club's two new radio team members, Brett Dolan and Dave Raymond. The schedule is listed at the end of this release. Additionally, the club announced that the tandem of Bill Brown and Jim Deshaies will serve as the television broadcast team for all 155 of the team's broadcasts this season. Brown is entering his 20th season as the team's primary play-by-play voice on television, while Deshaies is in his 10th season on the Astros broadcast team. The duo will also be in the booth for two of the club's Spring Training games, on March 22 vs. Cleveland and March 28 vs. Atlanta, both on FSN Houston and from Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee. Larry Dierker, who served as a color analyst on selected broadcasts from 2004-05, will assume a greater role within the club's community development team and will not appear on broadcasts this season. Dierker will assist the community development office with special events, charitable, and promotional projects. He will oversee the Astros Alumni activities, including the annual golf tournament. Dierker will also devote a significant amount of time toward a major event benefiting literacy next Spring, and the Dierker family will have grandchildren born in both August and October. "After considering priorities at this stage of my life and baseball career, I have decided to move toward the community relations aspect of baseball," said Dierker. "I also want to devote more time to my friends with the Astros Alumni Club. It was a difficult decision to give up broadcasting, but I have always tried to follow the path with my heart, and this is where it is leading me." Dierker will also be finalizing a new book, "My Team," due out in late Summer, and will be making periodic appearances at Larry's Big Bamboo, located at Minute Maid Park, during the 2006 season.
I'm going to love hearing Jimmy D all year. Of course, since they got rid of Ash, I've burned all my Astros gear and am now a Rangers fan.
jimmy D has alot of the same great insight as dierker but with alot more humor. he's deserved a full-time gig for a while. maybe they can play, what's in brett dolan's pocket?
fyi, Jimmy finally moved his family from NY to Houston, that's why he's available for the full season.
Man I'm gonna miss hearing LD but it's gonna be great getting drunk with him again at the bambo before and after the games!
I'm sure Larry Dierker is/was very good. I don't know, although I do remember he was a pretty good pitcher. I vowed in 1994 not to watch another MLB game until all the 1994 strikers were gone as active players. However, I need help in resolving a baseball question on a 3-2 pitch: A crouching right-handed batter, seeing a wicked fast curve coming in from a right-handed pitcher, ducks to get out of the way from a ball he thinks is coming right into his head. The batter falls into the plate area just as the ball curves in sharply over the plate for what would have been a strike. The batter is struck by the ball so the ball obviously never gets to the catcher. Is the batter awarded first for being hit, or is a strike-out awarded to the pitcher? I didn't want to give this question it's own thread. I just need help with the answer. Thanks in advance.
You cannot lean into the plate area to get hit by the ball. IIRC, the batter is out when that happens no matter what the count is.
