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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Jon Miller to broadcast Giants through 2012

The Mercury News' Andrew Baggarly and The Chronicle's Henry Schulman both report that Giants lead broadcaster Jon Miller has extended his contract through 2012.
Miller to broadcast Giants through 2012:
Giants announcer Jon Miller knows he will be nervous as Barry Bonds approaches Hank Aaron's all-time home run record this summer.

``There's a lot of pressure, when history's being made, not to screw it up,'' Miller said with a laugh.

The Giants have total faith in their lead play-by-play announcer and signature voice. They demonstrated that Friday, announcing a six-year extension that will keep Miller with the club through the 2012 season.


6-year extension for Giants' Miller:
Good thing for Jon Miller's fans in San Francisco that his contract did not come due in July, when the rigors of his dual life as the Giants' radio play-by-play man and the voice of ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" take their harshest toll. If so, Miller might not have signed the six-year extension, through 2012, the Giants announced Friday.

"At some point, taking your shoes off and getting patted down in the security gate -- 'Is that a bottle? Is that liquid in there? It's got to go' -- it takes a toll," Miller said, confessing that in July, when he began talking about a new deal with the Giants, he asked himself, "What am I doing? Do I really need this?"

The answer was a resounding yes. With a couple of months of rest after the season, Miller said he realized how much he loves his jobs with the Giants and ESPN and decided to move on a deal that will keep him in the booth at China Basin for his 11th through 16th seasons, past his 60th birthday.
I couldn't be happier. The combination of Miller with Kuiper and Krukow (with Dave Fleming) has got to be one of the best in baseball. For example: One morning last summer, the Giants were on the road somewhere where it rains heavily in the summer and the game was delayed for an hour. Rather than switching back to the studio, Miller and Kuiper & Krukow stayed on the air and just talked baseball. Miller recounted stories of players and broadcasters he'd known and his descriptive skills, usually employed to bring a distant game to life over the radio, were perfectly used.

Now about Bonds and Benitez...
|| Andrew, 1:24 PM || ||

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