Rankings were compiled via more than 3,000 fan-submitted responses that graded local MLB broadcasts between A and F, with letters mapped to numerical scores from 1 to 5. Don Orsillo and Mark Grant's San Diego Padres broadcast earned the No. 1 slot, with 69.5 percent of responses assigning an A and 94.6 percent falling between A and C. Commenters repeatedly used terms like "best" and "GOAT," with at least 65 usages tied to the booth. The 2025 season marks Orsillo's 10th with the Padres; he called Red Sox games from 2001 to 2015 and said he was "amazed" by fans still remembering him.
Awful Announcing compiled the rankings via more than 3,000 fan-submitted responses, which asked to grade their team's respective broadcast between an A and an F, with each letter matching to a numerical grade from 1 to 5. Based on Awful Announcing's polling, an "A" was the most common grade for Orsillo and Grant at 69.5 percent, while 94.6 percent of their grades ranged between A-C.
"Indeed, the most common sentiment in these comments was the idea of "best." There were at least 65 usages of either "best" or "GOAT" for this booth, far more than we saw for any other announcing team," Awful Announcing noted of Orsillo and Grant. "Thus, the comments wound up reflecting the numerical grades, and both pointed to this team as Awful Announcing readers' favorite by far this season."
"I'm amazed by it," Orsillo of his ties to Red Sox fans i n an interview with MassLive's Sean McAdam in June 2024. "I truly am. I thought having been gone for nine years that there wouldn't be many people who remembered. But as I said in my last game here, someone asked how I wanted to be remembered and I said, 'Being remembered at all is enough'
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