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Browsing: Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow
SF Giants announcers capture the top spot in local MLB broadcaster ratings. The San Francisco Giants’ television broadcast crew won Awful Announcing’s reader poll for the fourth time. San Francisco Giants supporters believe they have the best broadcasters in baseball.Awful Announcing’s survey supports this claim. For the fourth time in six polls, the Giants’ TV crew of Dave Flemming, Duane Kuiper, Mike Krukow, Shawn Estes, javier Lopez, and Hunter Pence finished #1 out of 30 teamThe Giants also led the poll in 2014, 2017, and 2018, and they have never finished lower than second.The poll’s methodology is straightforward: each broadcast team is assigned a letter grade between A and F. One reason the Giants’ broadcasters finished first with a 3.41 (is that legally a grade point average?) was that they received only nine D’s and nine F’s, accounting for less than 5% of all votes. Here is what Awful Announcing wrote: To no one’s surprise, the Giants won their fourth championship in six polls. This year, Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow did it with their third-highest score ever, extending their amazing run as baseball’s most popular local broadcast duo. Despite another season behind them, they’ll be favorites to repeat as champions next year.The duo of “Kruk and Kuip” has been…