Dave Sims

For other people of the same name, see David Sims (disambiguation).
Dave Sims
Born (1953-02-14) February 14, 1953
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sports commentary career

Genre(s) Play-by-play
Sports

Major League Baseball

National Football League

Dave Sims (born February 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster. He currently is the television play-by-play commentator for the Seattle Mariners[1] on Root Sports Northwest, the radio play-by-play man for Sunday Afternoon Football on Westwood One, and the co-host (with Mike Krzyzewski) of Basketball and Beyond with Coach K on Sirius XM Satellite Radio.[2] Sims was also the television play-by-play host for the UFL on Versus.[3]

Biography

Sims grew up in Philadelphia and attended Bethany College in West Virginia, where he played one year of varsity football, finishing third in kickoff returns in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, and catcher for the Bison baseball team (in Division III) and majored in mass communications.[4] He began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News. In radio, Sims became the host of WNBC's SportsNight in the mid-1980s (replacing Jack Spector), a five-hour nightly sports call-in show that was a precursor to the all-sports talk format of WFAN. He went on to cohost the midday show with Ed Coleman on New York's Sports Radio 66 WFAN on in the early 1990s, the show being nicknamed "Coleman and the Soul Man". He then became a weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and also was a radio host for the New York Knicks.

From 1990-1992 Sims was the radio voice of Temple Owls football in the Big East Conference.

In 1991, Sims joined ESPN as a play-by-play announcer for college basketball, and added college football in 1998. He primarily called Big East contests on the ESPN Plus regional network.

Prior to taking the permanent play-by-play position on Sunday Night Football, Sims was the #2 broadcaster for Westwood One's Sunday afternoon NFL doubleheader. He replaced Joel Meyers on the Sunday Night Football game in 2006. Sims worked "Sunday Night Football" games from 2006 to 2012. In 2013 Sims returned to Sunday Afternoon NFL action, working with former Arizona State and Pittsburgh Steeler QB, Mark Malone.

In addition to Sunday Night Football, Sims also calls college basketball for Westwood One, with his most notable call to date being the George Mason-UConn regional final in 2006 (where #11 seed George Mason upset top-seed Connecticut to become the second #11 seed in history to reach the Final Four).

While working in other sports, he occasionally provided Major League Baseball play-by-play for ESPN and did an internet radio show for MLB.com. In 2007, he took the opportunity to return to baseball full-time as part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast. One of the few African-American broadcasters in the sport, he is also perhaps the only one of that group not to have played in the major leagues. His broadcast partner is former Mariner Mike Blowers.[4]

Sims was the broadcaster on the FOX television network on April 21, 2012, describing Philip Humber's perfect game.[5] However, the game was broadcast in its entirety only in the Chicago and Seattle markets, because the rest of the country heard Joe Buck and Tim McCarver call a game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Because the game was broadcast on FOX in both markets, Sims had to call the game from a neutral standpoint as a broadcaster and not as the usual Mariners broadcaster, even though his team lost to a perfect game.

Just four months after calling Philip Humber's perfect game, Félix Hernández threw the first perfect game in Mariners' history. Sims called the game for Root Sports in Seattle. This is the first time that one broadcaster has called two perfect games in the same Major League Baseball season.

Notable catchphrases

Sims is noted for using the following catchphrases on Mariner broadcasts:
"Giddy up! Baby! Giddy up!" - used for exciting plays. Most commonly used on hits that might go out of the park for a homerun.
"Boomstick Baby!"- nickname for Nelson Cruz whenever he hits a homerun.[6]
"Guti! Guti! Guti!"- nickname for Franklin Gutierrez whenever he hits a home run.
"A Trumbo Jumbo!"- nickname for Mark Trumbo whenever he hits a home run.
"There's a drive, deep right field, say goodbye!" "Hey Lloyd, do some delivery... from a truck... to the airport!" "A three run jack by Seager!"- used when Kyle Seager hit a three run homerun for his fourth hit of the night at Yankee Stadium on June 2, 2014.[7]
Sims is a staunch believer in letting his audience know when a pitcher is working on a no-hitter. "That dugout superstition is not my concern. Telling the story of the game is what I do."

NFL broadcasting partners

NFL on Westwood One

References

  1. ↑ "MARINERS BROADCASTERS". MLB. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Basketball and Beyond On SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio". Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Hays, Chris (23 September 2009). "Flutie, Stewart join TV crew". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  4. 1 2 Stone, Larry (January 12, 2007). "M's juggle lineup in broadcast booth". Seattle Times. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ Claiborne, Mike (April 27, 2012). "Dave Sims makes the perfect call". St. Louis American.
  6. ↑ "M's should give us an enjoyable, and wild, ride this summer". spokesman.com. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  7. ↑ "Mariners announcer on flubbed call: 'I popped a hamstring'". mynorthwest.com. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2015-08-03.

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