Your MLB announcing schedule for 7/12-7/18
Here's who to expect on this week's calls.
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Your MLB announcing schedule for 7/6-7/11
Here's who to expect on this week's calls.
Fox unveils a preview of what their “virtual fans” and noise will look like for MLB broadcasts, which includes the wave
“We are trying to make them feel that in the normal pitch-by-pitch, shot-by-shot baseball it is what they are used to. We aren’t trying to fool anyone.”
Joe Buck tells Bill Simmons there will be an MLB season: “There’s just too much invested in this thing”
Buck and Simmons also discussed social media, three-man booths, and athletes who could make good broadcasters, among many topics.
David Ortiz is the latest player-turned-broadcaster to bash Astros’ whistleblower Mike Fiers: “You look like you’re a snitch”
"So you look like you're a snitch. Why you gotta talk about it after?"
Fox considering adding umpire analyst to baseball postseason broadcasts
Fox's World Series Game 6 telecast needed an umpire to explain a controversial call.
Nationals-Astros delivered least-watched World Series Game 7 ever, but enough viewers to only be third-least watched World Series
Game 7 drew 23.013 million viewers, the lowest for a World Series Game 7, but still more than enough to make this not the least-watched World Series ever.
Game 1 of the World Series recorded the lowest average audience in five years and the second-lowest on record
The first game of the World Series was the second-lowest Game 1 on record with 12.194 million average viewers, only slightly ahead of 2014's 12.191 million.
ESPN PR calls Fox EVP Michael Mulvihill’s ratings tweet “inaccurate information” over overnights/finals divide around Florida-LSU/MLB
"Incomplete data provides inaccurate information" is quite a stance to take on a tweet that was correct at the time.
Fox’s MLB Cubs-Cardinals broadcast did a long booth interview with WWE’s Braun Strowman, and took Twitter criticism
Fox's decision to get their wrestling in MLB fans' baseball took some criticism Thursday.
Fox MLB schedule features Yankees and Red Sox eight times each, including the London game between them
Once again, there will be a whole lot of nationally televised Yankees-Red Sox games.
Joe Buck signs contract extension with Fox, agrees to call World Series through at least 2021 thanks to working with John Smoltz
In 2016, Buck said " I’ve been doing it for a long time and I feel like somebody else should do it." Well, it's not going to be someone else calling the World Series until at least 2022, and maybe beyond that.
Fox Masterpass ad cuts off George Springer’s head as he makes catch, Twitter cracks jokes
An ad projected on the outfield wall cut off Springer's head.
