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Narration Plagued By Mispronunciation

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The story of the "Miracle Mets" of 1969 is a baseball classic. But a book like this will probably only be read by die-hard Mets fans. And as such it is unforgivably distracting to listen to this book and hear the constant uncorrected mistakes made by the reader when pronouncing the names of key figures in this story.

The legendary Dodger lefthander was not Sandy "KOO-fax"
The Cubs manager was not Leo "Der-oh-SHAY"
Future Met 2nd Baseman Felix was not "Millin"
The Centerfielder who Made the Extraordinary Catch was not Tommy "AJJ-ee"

It was someone's job (the producer, the director, the narrator himself) to make sure that names were being pronounced correctly. It's not that difficult. Just takes a little bit of research or a sit-down with anyone who knows about the team.

I wanted to escape into the world of the 1969 Mets when reading this book. It was hard to do with all the mispronunciations.

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