Doug Glanville has quickly turned into one of ESPN’s best and brightest analysts in his young television career. Glanville has made quite the name for himself in his second career, not only being a television analyst, but being an accomplished writer as well. And now he can add one more item to the resume: play by play announcer.
Glanville was scheduled to work as an analyst with Rick Sutcliffe for ESPN’s Wednesday Night Baseball telecast of Indians-Tigers in Detroit last night, but had to fill in for Jon Sciambi, who missed the game because he wasn’t feeling well.
Catch us calling the @Indians @tigers right now from Detroit! 7pm. On with @Sut_ESPN and our friend @BoogSciambi needs to get well!
— Doug Glanville (@dougglanville) September 28, 2016
Get well soon @BoogSciambi! Is my play by play emmy on the way?
If you’ll remember, TNT actually tried this for an NBA game a few years ago with analyst Steve Kerr doing some play by play mixed in with analysis calling a Thunder-Warriors game with Reggie Miller and Chris Webber. Glanville was interacting with fans on social media throughout the night, showing a pretty good sense of humor about the situation and being called into action as the play by play announcer.
I may not walk away with an Emmy tonight but I will walk away with this from the @tigers @Indians game booth! #foulball @SportsCenter pic.twitter.com/fowFod0gft
— Doug Glanville (@dougglanville) September 29, 2016
Even MORE respect for @Dodgers Vin Scully. Doing first time play by play AND color is like changing a diaper w/ your eyelids. #stillfun
You forgot the "@" with ESPN. Hint.
#letthemknow https://t.co/s2sPq71s4N — Doug Glanville (@dougglanville) September 29, 2016
Yes. Going Spanish next time. https://t.co/FE7qVRYPXt
— Doug Glanville (@dougglanville) September 29, 2016
Looking up Harwell's call now. That may get me banned from Detroit. https://t.co/ublWbDfbam
— Doug Glanville (@dougglanville) September 29, 2016
So how did Glanville do? Well, here’s some highlights from his play by play performance so you can be the judge…
As a longtime member of the Phillies, I do love that Glanville paid tribute to Harry Kalas with his “OUTTA HERE” home run call.
Overall, it’s not that bad for someone who was thrown into emergency duty doing this for the first time in front of a national television audience. If it were me in that situation I would probably struggle to speak any words at all, let alone ones that were in English or related to baseball. Buuuuut… in the grand scheme of things after listening to some of the highlights it’s probably better that Glanville sticks to his analyst duties moving forward.
Which analysts would you like to see give play by play a try… either because they’d be great at it or it would produce some great unintentional comedy?
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