The thing with Kessling, IMO, is his inflection and word choice.  I've defended him and I think the jokes are lame - low hanging fruit as someone said.  I'm fine with it though.  He's better than a lot of others.  (Braves fans like to rag Joe Simpson and Chip Caray.  Both are better than the majority of other team's announcers.)  I don't recall but Kessling may have been Ward's pick as a successor.  There was story on WNML in last couple of months where Kessling said he had decided to leave for a job at UK before he graduated from UT.  He sat down with John Ward and Ward told him he would be crazy to leave before he graduated - the best part of your life, he said, or something to that effect. 
Anywho, how bout this crootin class!?  
GBO.