Another perk of the Generic Baseball Voice is that it can talk about anything and make it sound reasonably compelling. (It can be viewed as an older, whiter uncle of the podcast voice.) The average baseball team plays around thirty thousand minutes each year, plus rain delays; there’s a lot of air to fill. Scully, the Dodgers announcer who is now retired, after sixty-seven seasons with the ball club, was a master. “He’d throw in Shakespearean references,” Azaria said. “ ‘Two out, second and thirrrd, Dod-gerrs down two. A base hit is a consummation dee-voutly to be wished! ’ ” Scully, Azaria noted, once gave a discourse on the history of beards. (Scully’s call: “Way back to the dawn of humanity, beards evolved, number one, because ladies liked them. . . . Here’s the one-strike pitch—swung on and missed.”)
How Hank Azaria Narrates Life with Generic Baseball Announcer Voice
