“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon E. Curvey

This story has been building up and building up and now enough is enough in my opinion. It seems a lot of folks do not like the way Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Sims broadcasts games on TV/Radio. I am trying to figure out why?

Some FYI. Dave Sims is the only lead broadcaster who is African American in the three major sports, football, basketball and baseball. So in reality sorry to say he is under a microscope. I think Dave knows this. Because of this microscope, it seems cats want to jump on Twitter and put Dave on blast. It has got worse lately and I am not happy about it. Dave is one of the nicest fellas you can meet and is a role model.

Dave is a role model for young inner city kids who want to be in broadcasting when they get older. Heck their are not to many African American male role models on TV in the Seattle/Tacoma market. There is Warren Moon, Steve Pool, Essix Porter, Jesse Jones, Dave Sims and myself. That’s about it. This is sad. Seattle/Tacoma radio and TV market is a Top 15 market but for some reason their is not to many African American males on TV. Plenty of African American females, not males.

I am proud of Dave Sims. I consider him a friend. And in my opinion he is a great broadcaster. He does also calls football too. One thing he does and I am very happy about is when ever he can, he brings up the fact that young inner city African American kids are not playing baseball like back in the day. And he also talks about African American players of the past and also the lack of African Americans in MLB currently as players and managers.

Folks get on Twitter and say “Sims SUCKS”  and more. This morning on local sports radio KJR, Mitch Levy said “Last night I had the game on TV and listening on radio” That was a subtle blasting of Dave Sims. I caught what Mitch was saying. It was a dig at Dave Sims. Dave Mahler also on KJR made a subtle criticism of Sims.

One guy on Twitter (Steve Sandmayer) who blasted Sims is a guy who was formally a sports jock on KJR and another smaller sports station. This cat cannot hold a job in sports radio and now is doing a sports podcast. When he was on radio, in my opinion I thought he was terrible!! BUT he has the nerves to talk negative about Sims!! GIVE ME A BREAK READERS!! This person needs to stay quiet on another persons style over the air because he was terrible!!

All the Sims haters will not like it but Dave is not going anywhere. So I guess the hating of him will continue. I interviewed Sims recently via Skype from his hotel room in Arlington, Texas when the Mariners was in town to play the Rangers. We discussed his career and more including a health scare he had. The interview will air soon on “Music Inner City TV (f) “S.I.C -TV”/Comcast-Xfinity On-Demand/all west coast markets of Washington State-Oregon and California/go to “get local” and then “inner city tv”

The haters will continue to hate on Dave Sims but I am not one of them. Sorry to say 99% of the folks hating on Sims are not African American. Ummm I wonder why ladies and gentlemen?

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