ESPN Sunday Night Baseball Archives

Karl Ravech calls out ‘haters’ willing to ‘die on hill’ criticizing mic’d up players

"Such a small group of haters will kind of blast the idea (mic'd up players) and fall on the sword of 'Just show us the game.'"

"You just can’t really get inside that perimeter without something like this."

"The analytics … it's going to be hard to put that genie back in the bottle."

"We both broke down crying."

"ESPN needs to mic up multiple players and make it like a live group chat."

"We all throw out ideas, some are good and some are bad but we don't have a problem laughing at ourselves when they don't come out so great."

He's now 13-24 in his career in primetime games.

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Eduardo Pérez reflects on his evolving relationship with the media, appreciating their job pressures while cherishing his broadcasting family.

"You have ideas in your head. But you just say whatever occurs to you."

"I think he identified with being that guy—the lead-off guy, spark-plug. And those two toys, shortstop and leadoff, have been taken away from him."

This play wasn't particularly controversial to anyone else.

"Why does ESPN have to ask this straight up in the middle of a game?"

A two-minute delay with an injured fan on the field went unrecognized and at least by some, unnoticed.

On ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox renew hostilities while catcher Jose Trevino will be mic'd up.

"I'll have to watch that one. With the sound off."

"That is OUTRAGEOUS malpractice."

"I said, I own it. It sounded that way even though the intention wasn’t that way."

Nimmo has the second-highest on-base percentage in the league.

Astros catcher Martin Maldonado will become the first catcher to be mic'd up on the ESPN telecast.