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>The funny thing for me is that (probably a throwback to when I was a kid), I still enjoy sitting outside listening to a game on the radio every bit as much as, if not more than, watching it on TV.

Agreed. Some moments are visually indelible -- Carlton Fisk trying to wave that home run fair in the 1975 World Series springs to mind -- but in most cases baseball is better on the radio. The cadences are naturally compatible. There are natural dead spots in the action, it's not nonstop like so much of modern culture, so you have to be adept to keep the listener's interest without groveling for it. An admirable art.