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Mostly was thinking national because obviously there are people like the ones you named who I'm not familiar with (if Kruk is John Kruk then I remember him as a player, but I've never heard him announce).
If the Giants have an excellent broadcasting duo then I'm jealous. Listening to Mariner TV broadcasts in the post-Niehaus era is really tough. The color guy, Mike Blowers, has developed into a very solid one, but the play-by-play guy is pretty damn bad.
Kruk is Mike Krukow, former Giants pitcher in the 80s and Kuip is Duane Kuiper, former giants 2b. Kuip does pbp, and Kruk does color. They've been with the Giants since 94 I think, and are excelent. I never really knew how bad some local guys were until having to Brave pbp while living in TN, holy **** it's bad.
I guess color is much more important in Baseball because of the downtime, so it's a good thing the M ' s have a good color guy, but I do find bad pbp very distracting