Awful Announcing
"I’ve done baseball broadcasting since I was 19, professionally. I feel like I’ve done all I could do there. If someday I wanna go back and call a few games - maybe."
"Anytime a chapter closes, I feel it a lot. So I thought about it a lot. This has been an unbelievable opportunity. What a blessing and what a privilege."
After seeing their game Friday repeatedly interrupted by Aaron Judge cut-ins, the official Tulane football Twitter account had some fun with that Wednesday.
"ESPN pressured MLB officials to wait out an already long and particularly nasty rain delay between the Yankees and Red Sox at Yankee Stadium because the network was desperate to air Judge getting at least one more at-bat in his chase of 61 home runs, a person with knowledge of the situation told NJ Advance Media."
Conversations with mic'd up players while they're on the field have added to MLB broadcasts, but there are important considerations around timing and potential distractions. ESPN's Karl Ravech and Phil Orlins, as well as Alex Verdugo of the Red Sox, spoke to SI's Emma Baccellieri on that.
"Please don't put it on screen. ...This will be my last visit here."
As per Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, Rodriguez might move to an alternate broadcast, leaving a potential main Sunday Night Baseball booth of Karl Ravech, David Cone, and Eduardo Pérez.
Here's the announcing lineup for August 30-September 5.
"They've done a fantastic job of turning this thing into that. They have become the New York Yankees of baseball."
It's unclear at the moment what this means for the rest of the planned Red Sox-Yankees series.
Here's who to expect on this week's calls.
Here's who to expect on this week's calls.
ESPN is indeed going to a smaller MLB package of only exclusive games.
