If TBS wasn’t aware they shouldn’t be messing with the best booth in baseball, Keith Hernandez was there to remind them.
The New York Mets and Boston Red Sox aired nationally on TBS Tuesday night. In New York, however, the game was still broadcast locally by SNY with Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling in the booth. Gary, Keith and Ron have been broadcasting from the SNY booth at Citi Field since it opened in 2009, and Hernandez never complained about the vantage point.
That was until a TBS cameraman got in his way Tuesday night.
Hernandez was caught not paying attention to a conversation Cohen and Darling were having in the third inning, and he quickly attempted to blame it on the trouble he was having seeing around the cameraman.
Gary Cohen and Ron Darling caught Keith Hernandez not paying attention. 😂 pic.twitter.com/nW6QBpDW79
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“I’ve got this camera; I feel like Ted Knight in Caddyshack, my view!” Hernandez said in jest as he emphatically moved back and forth in an effort to see around the cameraman. “I have to look around him.”
Cohen quickly informed Hernandez it was a TBS camera, not one of their own from SNY, which put Darling in a bit of a pickle. Darling has been a double dipper since 2007 when he joined TBS as an analyst in addition to his SNY work.
“I’ll send a text, Keith. See if they’ll take care of it for ya,” Darling said, being the great teammate that he is.
We’re used to hearing baseball fans dump on national broadcasts, but Hernandez has to be one of the first local announcers to jab a national network on-air.
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