Fueled by Red Sox-Yankees matchup, TBS’ MLB Postseason coverage is up nine percent from 2017, 40 percent from 2016
The numbers look particularly good next to 2016's poor matchups, but they're also a rise over last year's solidly-rated NL coverage.
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Ron Darling finds it ‘offensive’ that Red Sox swing on 3-0 count with big lead in postseason game
Ron Darling was bothered by Andrew Benintendi trying to make things happen in a 10-1 playoff game.
TBS’ Yankees-Red Sox broadcast Friday was the most-watched LDS Game 1 since 2010, up 59% over 2017’s Cubs-Nationals
Unsurprisingly, a close game between the Yankees and Red Sox drew an impressive audience.
Hal the TBS Stat Guy makes great grab on foul ball during Red Sox-Yankees ALDS
Turner Sports statistician Hal Gaalema made a heck of a play here.
Boston radio hosts Mike Felger, Jim Murray, and Tony Massarotti blast “goombah” Yankee fans: “There’s very few minorities.”
"It is a house full of goombahs! The whole thing, there's very few minorities, very few women, very few kids. It's one dude with a chain and a Yankee jersey hanging off the next!"
Yankees-A’s AL Wild Card game delivers a ratings win for TBS
The game was a marked improvement over TBS's numbers for last year's NL Wild Card game, which isn't much of a surprise.
Baseball fans didn’t seem to enjoy Keith Olbermann calling Mets-Yankees on ESPN
It was an exclusive ESPN broadcast due to being a makeup game from a Sunday Night Baseball rainout, so Mets and Yankees fans were forced to watch this broadcast.
Yankees-White Sox TV broadcasts get up-close look at umpire removing moth from his ear
Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier not happy with Michael Kay’s “facetious” comment
“You know I was being facetious” didn’t come across well with Frazier.
Media blast Gary Sanchez for “not hustling,” Yankees put him on DL with groin injury, some media still don’t buy it
The takes were flying over this one, even after the Yankees announced Sanchez was injured.
After the Mike Trout promotion controversy, ESPN’s Buster Olney asked Trout for a Yankees-Mets weather report
Maybe Trout's interest in the weather was all he needed for media stardom after all.
Yankees consider exercising right to buy YES back (for $4 billion-plus?) instead of it being sold to Disney or Comcast
Six years after selling Fox a minority stake in YES and four years after giving them majority control, the Yankees might be exercising an option to buy YES back at an even higher price.
ESPN gives in, moves Yankees off Sunday Night Baseball after team threatens boycott
Aaron Boone and company were not happy to have an 8 p.m. game the night before a day-night double-header.
Yankees threaten to boycott ESPN over Sunday Night Baseball schedule, and they have a point
The Yankees are set to play on the road for Sunday Night Baseball the night before a road double-header, and they're not happy about it.
SI TV has teamed with MLB for two longform documentaries, including Jonathan Hock’s “14 Back” on 1978 Yanks-Red Sox race
The Hock-directed 14 Back will cover the Yankees' chase and "Bucky Bleeping Dent."
