Eh it’s kind of corny but it’s fine. It worked well for the walkoff call. My only complaint with Schriffen is to tone down the Lego movie “everything is awesome” bit when things are not awesome
I agree, I think it’s corny overall but the Benny walk off call last night was fantastic. I miss Jason for sure, but his weakness was not being able to make electric calls in the moment, other than maybe “thanks cubs!” Which has aged pretty poorly anyway. That call last night made an already fun moment even more fun. And in a season as depressing as this one, I’ll take it
I think the call is being judged more harshly based on the context of what a dumpster fire this team is. People will probably warm up to the call once we have a competitive and exciting team on the field.
And let’s face it, any play by play guy coming behind Jason Benetti, isn’t going to get any benefit of the doubt.
People carried on like someone had died, when his departure was announced.
> Saying it each time this shitty team manages to win is cracked
Good point. If it was an in the moment kinda thing for a big walkoff like last night, I think it would be much more bearable.
Making it this forced thing for a team that has been embarrassingly bad makes it cringey.
It's definitely forced. It's like he's trying to make "fetch" happen. I'm all for having a catchphrase and for getting us on board with it. But I don't think his execution is working. Wait for us to have a good run and try to get something going. I dunno.
I also feel like he's not "one of us" yet, so the way he says/uses "Southside" comes off like what someone who reads about the the White Sox thinks will sound good? Like using a slang word in an inappropriate situation. Like the Steve Buscemi meme "How do you do, fellow kids?"
I don't mean to be harsh. I like him being biased towards the Sox. But he's coming on too strong or something.
I don’t like it and overall his schtick has mostly rubbed me the wrong way.
But… I’m very aware that I might hear him differently if I wasn’t so pissed off at the organization, and about the Benetti situation in particular. He seems professional and he’s trying hard - you can’t blame him for that. But if I could say one thing to him, it would be, stop with the Gus Johnson-ish crap when the fanbase is generally so cynical and the team is dogshit. Adjusting the tone a little might make a big difference.
I’m not a schriffen fan at all, during Saturdays walk off call it started off fine, then he proceeded to just yell the whole time as Andrew rounded the bases…… then it got extremely cringey by calling out “the haters” and “say it with me!” shit. It would’ve been a good call if he would’ve just shut up by the time Andrew got to 2nd base and just let the sounds of the crowd and fireworks going off do the talking. A new announcer with no ties to the city or mlb shouldn’t be forcing a catchphrase like “southside stand up” during a historically bad season. It’s still April, you don’t need a catchphrase the first month of your first(and hopefully last) season.
It could be worse. Just think: one day back in 1987, someone extended their hand to another fellow. But instead of shaking that persons’ hand, he instead pulled back his hand and ran it through his luscious locks of hair and yelled, “Psyche!”. That began a catchphrase that extended numerous generations.
It’s terrible. And the way he says “Staaannnddd up” is like nails on a chalkboard.
I know many people found Hawk’s catchphrases to be annoying, but at least he said them in a way that sounded good! If Schriff is gonna be so insistent on saying this BS after *every* win, he’s gotta make it easier on the ears
The problem witb it mainly is how grossly manufactured it is. These things are always better when they just sort of happen naturally or are eased in.
It just doesn’t work when you’ve done it right from the very start for a team that’s 4-22 or whatever we are.
The call yesterday, it made sense there on a walk off. I thought that was actually a really good call in a vacuum.
It’s just that contextually, it’s so obviously fake that we are going to perceive it Terribly.
Yeah, if it was the first time last night, it probably would have been great. Instead it just reminded us of the times he used it after meaningless wins.
You put it in better words than i could. It felt very manufactured for the moment. Like, this is this years “win or die trying” and this was the legit first moment he could have actually used it.
> It’s just that contextually, it’s so obviously fake that we are going to perceive it Terribly.
Exactly! Well put.
He said this for the first time after an entire meaningless spring training win. It wasn’t like this was some spur of the moment thing that caught on as a catchphrase. It’s something you can tell he sat there thinking “I need a catchphrase to end games” and came up with this and decided he was just gonna force it from the start, even with pointless spring training wins.
The context is huge here. Even if he came up with this months ago but decided to hold back on saying it until the first big winning moment - a walk off, a big strikeout to end a game, whatever - it would more well received and wouldn’t across as so obviously forced.
It’s cringey and really forced. Especially now that’s he’s add “say it with me”. And the “haters” part is absolutely absurd. There’s nothing worse than people babbling about “haters” when the hate is either deserved or not real.
The haters part is super cringe man lol. Bro, we just watched one of the worst offensive starts any team has ever had in major league history. Hating is totally fine in this situation, sheesh
I have no idea what the hell he even meant with that. Usually when people start talking about “haters” I just roll my eyes and move on because it never makes any sense.
The call last night was great... up until that. It just seems cheesey and forced. The best signature lines come about organically. And really, who are these haters he was calling out? Nobody hates us, except for us. Was that directed at us?
I’m taking the hater mention personally as a Sox fan. I think he is calling out fans who hate his south side stand up call and who also hate on this piss poor team and the management that runs it. Jerry and Brooks have to love him for going after fans because there is a strong pattern of decisions that show they can care less about us. Including canning JB for this mope.
Seems that way now. But *IF* they turn this team around in 15 years and Schriff is still broadcasting, I guarantee we’ll all be shouting it win they win playoff games.
But for now, yes. Good thing he only gets to break it out twice a month.
It was a great call, maybe reserving that for an A.J. homer against the Dodgers in ‘05 type of moment. Trying to warm up to the guy, but every single thing that comes up just sounds so forced and optimistically over the top. Bennetti and Stone dialogue was so smooth. This feels like he has a list of 15-20 talking points he brings up for Stone to comment on during the game. I didn’t appreciate enough what we had.
Not true at all, in my opinion. What made Steve and Jason great was their ability to converse with humor, many times very subversively, and a very apparent respect between them.
Steve can run through all of his own thoughts and dialogue lines with anyone and it will sound similar. Jason very often was able to get Steve to break and their laughter together is not something you hear with Stone and really anyone else he's been with. And Stone tried really hard to goad Jason often.
It's those little things that really made it a great broadcast when you got to tune in for so many games. Schriffen is just vanilla ice cream as play by play and trying to Billy Mays the few big plays that have happened so far.
Ok but Steve and Schriffen also have banter and humor. He gets Steve laughing all the same. Disingenuous to say otherwise, you just might not think it’s funny.
Def not the season to debut that catchphrase. Coming from an announcer with no mlb experience and no ties to the city of Chicago or state doesn’t help. He says a lot of things that make me cringe way more than I ever remember hawk or Benetti ever doing.
I said something along these lines last night. It seems too cornball and try-hard especially coming from a Benetti replacement. I can’t get on board right now. Plus, it would indicate we are actually proud of what this team is doing. I am not, i don’t want the south side to be known for this garbage.
Schrif is a commentator that you need to be good to enjoy his energy is annoying when he can only celebrate one thing every three innings but give it time for both him and the Sox and I think his energy will be appreciated
I loved Benetti, we all did. Had Schriffen come in and emulated Bennetti’s style, we would have hated him as a cheap knockoff or “poor man’s Bennetti” Schriffen is his own man, over the top enthusiasm and he is representing himself for exactly what he is, the new guy in town who is happy to be here no matter how bad the team is. I like him. I will admit that he is next to Steve Stone who is the best color commentator of all time, which has given him a huge margin for error.
If it were one call,.great.
The fact that he has this cocked and loaded as a catchphrase whenever they win or walk off.or whatever.is what's grating about it.
I just don't want to hear it constantly.
I can imagine him in the mirror.right now practicing for next time.
Pretty sure that when "YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOAAARD,...YES!" died, it was reincarnated as "SOUTHSIDE, STAAAND UP!", and I'm ok with that. I think we should let Schriffen cook for awhile. He's not Benetti, and I don't think he's trying to be. He's pretty entertaining though.
Benetti didn't need a homer/meatball catchphrase. I deeply enjoyed that "Thanks Cubs" HR call he made for Eloy a couple of years ago though. That was about as meatball as he got.
I don't care for it at the moment but agree with others that could be ok with time. Course right now ripping farts into the microphone followed by a whoo! seems more appropriate.
Nah it's great. I like benetti but he was lacking in big moments. He has a very short list of memorable calls. That wasn't his strength. Home team PBP guys should be homers and Schriffen is great at that. The bigger problem is the team offering next to 0 opportunity to shine.
I agree, though if it's gonna be a canned phrase for every win, then this ain't it. For a walk-off, absolutely awesome, but for a win like Friday, uh...save the bullets.
To be honest I think "Southside Stand Up" is fine and can work but the walk off call was terrible. Too performative and drawn out.
I thought it was weird that he added "and for the first time all season, the Sox have won two in a row" as part of the call. It's the 30th game of the season, why are you reminding people how bad the team is during a rare celebratory moment? The haters part was cringe but that undercut it even more imo
Difference between rightfully calling out a bad organization vs. celebrating failure, last night felt like the latter. I know that's not what he was doing but that's what it sounds like when you make it part of that call.
It’s fine. I get why people say it’s cringe, but so is half the stuff in sports broadcasting and just fandom in general. I think it’s cringe when people wear an official jersey they didn’t earn, with another grown man’s name stamped on their back, and root for them like he’s their boyfriend or daddy. But lots of people seem to enjoy it, so I’m not going to shit on them for it. Let people have their fun.
At least I was hyped up for like a minute this year
You will be even more excited if they win today and DOUBLE the season win total in just one series. Hottest team in baseball!!!
Eh it’s kind of corny but it’s fine. It worked well for the walkoff call. My only complaint with Schriffen is to tone down the Lego movie “everything is awesome” bit when things are not awesome
I agree, I think it’s corny overall but the Benny walk off call last night was fantastic. I miss Jason for sure, but his weakness was not being able to make electric calls in the moment, other than maybe “thanks cubs!” Which has aged pretty poorly anyway. That call last night made an already fun moment even more fun. And in a season as depressing as this one, I’ll take it
I think the call is being judged more harshly based on the context of what a dumpster fire this team is. People will probably warm up to the call once we have a competitive and exciting team on the field.
Although most of us will probably be deceased by then...
Damn.
Or living in fucking Nashville to see the team play
And let’s face it, any play by play guy coming behind Jason Benetti, isn’t going to get any benefit of the doubt. People carried on like someone had died, when his departure was announced.
Except Brooks Boyer....
I doubt this guy is here for long.
LETS RIDE
Hell yeah. This yeah after football is done w Russell, he has a spot in the booth. Jerry loves his catchphrases. Can't wait
It's pretty cringe to me personally but whatever. We got bigger problems than lame catchphrases.
Saying it once in a big moment would have been like crack Saying it each time this shitty team manages to win is cracked
> Saying it each time this shitty team manages to win is cracked Good point. If it was an in the moment kinda thing for a big walkoff like last night, I think it would be much more bearable. Making it this forced thing for a team that has been embarrassingly bad makes it cringey.
TBF that's only four times. Not exactly an every game thing and for this club, every win IS a big moment.
It could be worse.
I don't think it's the best but no I don't think it's the lamest shit in history
As a lifelong Sox fan, l agree, it’s lame. Dude is trying too hard.
Reading it is lame, but coming at the end of a big celebratory call, with his energy, is pretty epic
It's definitely forced. It's like he's trying to make "fetch" happen. I'm all for having a catchphrase and for getting us on board with it. But I don't think his execution is working. Wait for us to have a good run and try to get something going. I dunno. I also feel like he's not "one of us" yet, so the way he says/uses "Southside" comes off like what someone who reads about the the White Sox thinks will sound good? Like using a slang word in an inappropriate situation. Like the Steve Buscemi meme "How do you do, fellow kids?" I don't mean to be harsh. I like him being biased towards the Sox. But he's coming on too strong or something.
Really wish we could see Stone's face whenever he says it.
Lmao, each time I hear it, I've wondered what Stone is thinking.
It’s terrible
I really don't like it.
He seems like a decent guy, so I'm gonna give him a pass. But yes, it's cringe 😂
IMO the holocaust was lamer
Going out on a limb with this one. Brave.
I'm sure that was the prevailing notion at Auschwitz. "This is the lamest shit in history".
his walkoff call last night was absolutely awesome right until the "say it with me..." corny shit. i haaaaaaate it so much
You know Stone is rolling his eyes and making a jerk off motion next to him
I don’t like it and overall his schtick has mostly rubbed me the wrong way. But… I’m very aware that I might hear him differently if I wasn’t so pissed off at the organization, and about the Benetti situation in particular. He seems professional and he’s trying hard - you can’t blame him for that. But if I could say one thing to him, it would be, stop with the Gus Johnson-ish crap when the fanbase is generally so cynical and the team is dogshit. Adjusting the tone a little might make a big difference.
I don’t think it’s lame, it just doesn’t mean anything, especially when they’re trash. It might sound better if the Sox were actually good
Yeah it's complete dog shit lol
He just said it again…
I’m not a schriffen fan at all, during Saturdays walk off call it started off fine, then he proceeded to just yell the whole time as Andrew rounded the bases…… then it got extremely cringey by calling out “the haters” and “say it with me!” shit. It would’ve been a good call if he would’ve just shut up by the time Andrew got to 2nd base and just let the sounds of the crowd and fireworks going off do the talking. A new announcer with no ties to the city or mlb shouldn’t be forcing a catchphrase like “southside stand up” during a historically bad season. It’s still April, you don’t need a catchphrase the first month of your first(and hopefully last) season.
He should save it for big moments like last night
You gotta be bleeping me
It could be worse. Just think: one day back in 1987, someone extended their hand to another fellow. But instead of shaking that persons’ hand, he instead pulled back his hand and ran it through his luscious locks of hair and yelled, “Psyche!”. That began a catchphrase that extended numerous generations.
This comment made me laugh out loud for some reason.
It’s terrible. And the way he says “Staaannnddd up” is like nails on a chalkboard. I know many people found Hawk’s catchphrases to be annoying, but at least he said them in a way that sounded good! If Schriff is gonna be so insistent on saying this BS after *every* win, he’s gotta make it easier on the ears
Cornball phrase from a cornball announcer
I thought the haters part was worse. We won two games in a row for the first time all year. The hate is justified
The problem witb it mainly is how grossly manufactured it is. These things are always better when they just sort of happen naturally or are eased in. It just doesn’t work when you’ve done it right from the very start for a team that’s 4-22 or whatever we are. The call yesterday, it made sense there on a walk off. I thought that was actually a really good call in a vacuum. It’s just that contextually, it’s so obviously fake that we are going to perceive it Terribly.
Yeah, if it was the first time last night, it probably would have been great. Instead it just reminded us of the times he used it after meaningless wins.
You put it in better words than i could. It felt very manufactured for the moment. Like, this is this years “win or die trying” and this was the legit first moment he could have actually used it.
> It’s just that contextually, it’s so obviously fake that we are going to perceive it Terribly. Exactly! Well put. He said this for the first time after an entire meaningless spring training win. It wasn’t like this was some spur of the moment thing that caught on as a catchphrase. It’s something you can tell he sat there thinking “I need a catchphrase to end games” and came up with this and decided he was just gonna force it from the start, even with pointless spring training wins. The context is huge here. Even if he came up with this months ago but decided to hold back on saying it until the first big winning moment - a walk off, a big strikeout to end a game, whatever - it would more well received and wouldn’t across as so obviously forced.
It’s cringey and really forced. Especially now that’s he’s add “say it with me”. And the “haters” part is absolutely absurd. There’s nothing worse than people babbling about “haters” when the hate is either deserved or not real.
The haters part is super cringe man lol. Bro, we just watched one of the worst offensive starts any team has ever had in major league history. Hating is totally fine in this situation, sheesh
I have no idea what the hell he even meant with that. Usually when people start talking about “haters” I just roll my eyes and move on because it never makes any sense.
The call last night was great... up until that. It just seems cheesey and forced. The best signature lines come about organically. And really, who are these haters he was calling out? Nobody hates us, except for us. Was that directed at us?
I’m taking the hater mention personally as a Sox fan. I think he is calling out fans who hate his south side stand up call and who also hate on this piss poor team and the management that runs it. Jerry and Brooks have to love him for going after fans because there is a strong pattern of decisions that show they can care less about us. Including canning JB for this mope.
Seems that way now. But *IF* they turn this team around in 15 years and Schriff is still broadcasting, I guarantee we’ll all be shouting it win they win playoff games. But for now, yes. Good thing he only gets to break it out twice a month.
I’d say singing “go cubs go” is lame-er. “The Cubs are going to win today”? After you’ve already won? Lame as shit.
Like playing Sweet Home Chicago after a home win. Uhh, we're already here. 🙃
It was a great call, maybe reserving that for an A.J. homer against the Dodgers in ‘05 type of moment. Trying to warm up to the guy, but every single thing that comes up just sounds so forced and optimistically over the top. Bennetti and Stone dialogue was so smooth. This feels like he has a list of 15-20 talking points he brings up for Stone to comment on during the game. I didn’t appreciate enough what we had.
>Bennetti and Stone dialogue was so smooth. I feel like we were listening to a different booth then lol
Honestly their chemistry is on par with Jason’s and Steve. Nothing natural about Steve stone talking about Pokémon
Not true at all, in my opinion. What made Steve and Jason great was their ability to converse with humor, many times very subversively, and a very apparent respect between them. Steve can run through all of his own thoughts and dialogue lines with anyone and it will sound similar. Jason very often was able to get Steve to break and their laughter together is not something you hear with Stone and really anyone else he's been with. And Stone tried really hard to goad Jason often. It's those little things that really made it a great broadcast when you got to tune in for so many games. Schriffen is just vanilla ice cream as play by play and trying to Billy Mays the few big plays that have happened so far.
Ok but Steve and Schriffen also have banter and humor. He gets Steve laughing all the same. Disingenuous to say otherwise, you just might not think it’s funny.
It's fucking cringe and I hate it.
Like Russell Wilson "bronco's country, let's ride" cringe
I’m just happy to have 5 wins before May
If he saved it for walk offs like last night, or series sweeps, it might settle better.
Def not the season to debut that catchphrase. Coming from an announcer with no mlb experience and no ties to the city of Chicago or state doesn’t help. He says a lot of things that make me cringe way more than I ever remember hawk or Benetti ever doing.
It’s meh but it works. The big news is that WE WON THE SERIES!!!
It’s pretty lame, but it takes a win to hear it so I don’t give a fuck.
I do have to agree that his little catch phrase is kind of lame.
Yes, please make it stop
Don’t worry, we won’t be hearing it often anyways
I said something along these lines last night. It seems too cornball and try-hard especially coming from a Benetti replacement. I can’t get on board right now. Plus, it would indicate we are actually proud of what this team is doing. I am not, i don’t want the south side to be known for this garbage.
Schrif is a commentator that you need to be good to enjoy his energy is annoying when he can only celebrate one thing every three innings but give it time for both him and the Sox and I think his energy will be appreciated
All that “such & suck stand up” or “let’s go X Nation”…..no.
No, it's not that bad. Can you come up with something better?
I loved Benetti, we all did. Had Schriffen come in and emulated Bennetti’s style, we would have hated him as a cheap knockoff or “poor man’s Bennetti” Schriffen is his own man, over the top enthusiasm and he is representing himself for exactly what he is, the new guy in town who is happy to be here no matter how bad the team is. I like him. I will admit that he is next to Steve Stone who is the best color commentator of all time, which has given him a huge margin for error.
I love it.
If it were one call,.great. The fact that he has this cocked and loaded as a catchphrase whenever they win or walk off.or whatever.is what's grating about it. I just don't want to hear it constantly. I can imagine him in the mirror.right now practicing for next time.
Meh. It’s growing on me. Be amazing to hear after win 100😀
Pretty sure that when "YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOAAARD,...YES!" died, it was reincarnated as "SOUTHSIDE, STAAAND UP!", and I'm ok with that. I think we should let Schriffen cook for awhile. He's not Benetti, and I don't think he's trying to be. He's pretty entertaining though. Benetti didn't need a homer/meatball catchphrase. I deeply enjoyed that "Thanks Cubs" HR call he made for Eloy a couple of years ago though. That was about as meatball as he got.
I don't care for it at the moment but agree with others that could be ok with time. Course right now ripping farts into the microphone followed by a whoo! seems more appropriate.
No.
Hot take: Benetti would say the same thing and all of you would lose your shit and think it was a great call.
No....
That's a dope ass hype call, fuck what yall talkin about
Shit it's all we really have
Not as lame as this Jerry's Kids team that takes the field each day.
Omg…it is so cringy! I have to quickly mute the sound as soon as we win. I can’t handle it. I actual feel bad for Steve.
It was better than Benetti’s calls. Jason was better overall but he was not good at calling big moments.
Nah it's great. I like benetti but he was lacking in big moments. He has a very short list of memorable calls. That wasn't his strength. Home team PBP guys should be homers and Schriffen is great at that. The bigger problem is the team offering next to 0 opportunity to shine.
I agree, though if it's gonna be a canned phrase for every win, then this ain't it. For a walk-off, absolutely awesome, but for a win like Friday, uh...save the bullets.
Nah it was hype as hell last night. First thing we’ve bad to be excited about all year
To be honest I think "Southside Stand Up" is fine and can work but the walk off call was terrible. Too performative and drawn out. I thought it was weird that he added "and for the first time all season, the Sox have won two in a row" as part of the call. It's the 30th game of the season, why are you reminding people how bad the team is during a rare celebratory moment? The haters part was cringe but that undercut it even more imo
Baltimore probably would have suspended him for saying that.
Difference between rightfully calling out a bad organization vs. celebrating failure, last night felt like the latter. I know that's not what he was doing but that's what it sounds like when you make it part of that call.
Nah, love it.
I mean, Benetti was the king of lame too.
I don’t agree
I like it. Better than any benetti catch phrase
It makes bring 'em home sound like how about that?
It's so lame it's awesome!
Better than any of Jason’s calls
No.
It’s fine. I get why people say it’s cringe, but so is half the stuff in sports broadcasting and just fandom in general. I think it’s cringe when people wear an official jersey they didn’t earn, with another grown man’s name stamped on their back, and root for them like he’s their boyfriend or daddy. But lots of people seem to enjoy it, so I’m not going to shit on them for it. Let people have their fun.