TBS sets broadcasting teams
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This release from TBS:
TBS steps up to the plate on October 1 to begin televising the 2008 MLB Postseason. The network announced today it’s broadcasting roster for its exclusive coverage of all four MLB League Division Series (LDS) and the American League Championship Series (ALCS).
The play-by-play voices for the ALDS and NLDS will be “Sunday MLB on TBS†announcer Chip Caray, legendary broadcaster Dick Stockton, Boston Red Sox play-by-play man Don Orsillo and Milwaukee Brewers announcer Brian Anderson.
They will be calling all the action throughout the ALDS and NLDS alongside a team of expert analysts, which include Ron Darling, Buck Martinez, Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn and 16-year veteran broadcaster Joe Simpson, former NL Cy Young Award winner and current Braves pitcher John Smoltz and two-time AL All-Star and veteran analyst Harold Reynolds.
In the studio for the ALDS and NLDS, two-time Emmy-award winning host Ernie Johnson will be joined by Hall of Famers Cal Ripken and Dennis Eckersley as well as one of the top lead-off batters in MLB, current Detroit Tigers centerfielder Curtis Granderson, who will break down the night’s action and offer insight throughout the night. Also contributing to the ALDS and NLDS postseason coverage will be TBS MLB insider and Sports Illustrated baseball senior writer Tom Verducci, along with field reporters Craig Sager, Marc Fein and David Aldridge.
TBS’ exclusive ALCS coverage will be called by Caray (play-by-play), Darling (analyst) and Martinez (analyst), with an on-site studio team featuring Johnson (host), Ripken (analyst), Eckersley (analyst) and Reynolds (analyst). Sager will serve as a reporter for the ALCS, with an additional reporter assigned to cover the National League Championship Series (NLCS) to be announced at a later time.
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Chad Jennings
Sam Borden
Good for Orsillo! When I was living in MA, I never minded watching games on NESN cause I liked Orsillo and Jerry Remy so much. Good guys, glad to see he’ll be one of the bright spots on the “all-star” lineup of announcers TBS has lined up.
No Jerry Remy? They have all the other homers from NESN.
Good heavens, you could populate a small country with all those people, though I wouldn’t want to live there.
I liked Ron Darling last season. And Buck’s a favorite of mine. This lineup of announcers has the potential to make watching the games enjoyable.
I like it. The TBS broadcast has been solid. Much better than ESPN’s and FOX’s IMO
needs more bob uecker.
They’re having playoffs this year?
I just found out the other day that Ron Darling is from Hawaii. Huh.
*Chip-good
*Ron-okay
*Gwynn-the only guy who knew what he was talking about last playoffs, but very hard to understand
*Ripken-pretty good. funny guy
*Ernie Johnson-he’s the man, but don’t know if he can play it up like he does with Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley
*Buck-Yuck!
*Reynolds-don’t know why people like him so much. Too nasally
Smoltzy-as DP likes to call him has a great personality, but don’t know if it comes out like it does on sports radio.
Good for Reynolds. Hes a good guy. I enjoyed him on BBTN. Good to see him working again
Nobody’s as good as Buck and McCarver. Harold Reynolds? That’s what she said!
This isnt really the right place for this but no thread at this point really is.
heard on my way in to work this AM on XM175 Buck Martinez say that he is hearing a runour that they are going to unveil a statue on Sunday of Yogi jumping into Don Larsen’s for his perfect game.
Cant wait to hear all the stuff they are doing will be there both saturday and Sunday. I also read this am that gates for sunday open at 1Pm for an 8PM game not sure who wants to be at the stadium for 7 hours before hand i was planning on getting there around 4 lol
Am I the only one who thinks that Chip Caray is beyond horrendous?
With Dick Stockton doing games, we are assured of more missed calls and mis-identified players than Kay, Sterling, and Waldman combined.
My mute button will certainly be tested this playoffs, if I even watch.
Should the Yankees go after this yu darvish kid. He might be posted this year and Stick is in Japan scouting him.
He’s young 22. Don’t know if he’s any good though….
Buck and McCarver? Can’t stand those idiots. All game its over dramatic.
“You talk about a team… that has beaten the odds.. this year. This team has shown us what they are made of. And you talk about a closer…. who has changed the way we think about baseball.”
Am I the only one who thinks that Chip Caray is beyond horrendous?
Nope. Count me as another who feels the same way
Who would everbody like to see as the main YES team next year?
My vote, assuming Jim Kaat isn’t coming back, is for Kay, Cone, and Paul O’Neill.
Or Ken Singleton instead of Paulie, I think he doesn’t want to put in a full schedule.
Either way, the less of John Flaherty, the better.
Hopefully, somebody in charge of the WS will have the common sense to actually bring in the real “Voice Of Baseball”, Ernie Harwell. He’s a book of baseball history by himself. Great voice, great author and writes some pretty good songs.
I couldn’t stand Chip Caray.
much rather hear hideki matsui and ichiro do the play by play than the guys tbs has lined up…
“Am I the only one who thinks that Chip Caray is beyond horrendous?”
No you’re not. I can’t stand him either.
Wasn’t it last year he kept calling the go-ahead run the winning run?
And was a ridiculous homer for Cleveland?
I’d rather have Tim McCarver scratch his nails on a chalk board for a few hours than listen to Chip Caray…
I found it nearly unfathomable how terrible Chip Caray was last year. I doubt I will ever watch a game that he broadcasts again, he completely sucks out all the enjoyment.
Eric
September 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I found it nearly unfathomable how terrible Chip Caray was last year. I doubt I will ever watch a game that he broadcasts again, he completely sucks out all the enjoyment.
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He has that in common with his father and grandfather. That has to be the worst family of voices since man first spoke.
I’m a little late for the previous thread about playing the the starters or not. You know … this thing is over for us. I say get the young guys some innings.
I know Matsui wants to play the last game in the Stadium. No problem. Let him PH or maybe DH for an extra plate appearance or two. Then at the very next opportunity he should go fix that knee and start getting better for next year when we’ll really need him. Until that last game, he should sit out every inning so he doesn’t do any more damage to the knee, and some young guy can get a few major league at-bats in. We need Matsui’s bat next year … this year’s a waste.
As for the starters … sit them more, but not necesarily for the whole season. Maybe starters sit out a little more or come out of games earlier so other guys can get some playing time. It can only help because it helps the new guys and the regulars have less chance of getting hurt. I know the team’s not eliminated, but they’re not going to finish the season 10-0 while Boston & Tampa both go 2-8 and Minnesota also still falls flat on their faces for the wild card. Sorry … but it’s time.
Since the team will probably be eliminated, maybe Sunday’s game will become one of those where practically everybody might get to play an inning or make a plate appearance.
As long as the team’s eliminated, and they don’t totally make joke of in the rest of the year, I really have no problem with everybody getting a shot in the last game at the Stadium game.
An Bob Sheppard HAS to be in the announcer’s booth on Sunday.
Doreen – I responded to you in the other thread but as usual am a day late and a dollar short! So here it is.
Doreen, I just read Graziano’s account. Maybe I’m out in leftfield all by myself here but I cried through the whole thing. Is it really too enormous for people to realize the enormity of the thrills we’ve been treated to? How about Cliff Floyd saying that once you play in Yankee Stadium you’ve been to the BIG leagues? Or Ozzie Guillen saying that you haven’t been in a world series until you’ve been in one in Yankee Stadium? The enormity of it is hitting me now, and I am sick at heart that I never took the time to go on a Stadium tour. I never did. And now they will be no more.
Imagine standing on the field where Mickey Mantle played, or Joe D or the Iron Horse or the Babe. Or the mound where Mariano Rivera closes out games? I never thought I would feel this emotional about the Staidum closing down but I guess the reality is hitting me. And I will tell you that as a Yankee fan I feel like royalty. Because being a fan of the Yankees is about as close as you can come to being a Yankee. I feel like royalty for rooting for this franchise, which has played in this Stadium, and which has produced most of the top names in the game of baseball. And continues to, to this day.
I hail the New York Yankee organization; and to borrow from one of our heroes, I thank the Lord for making me a Yankee fan.
Trisha -
As I said in my post, I was pretty unemotional about the closing of the “building.” Hey, they’re moving right next door, what’s the big deal. But the closer it gets, the more bittersweet I’m feeling about it. (I hope it makes you feel better, I got teary-eyed reading Graziano’s account, too.) And I’m coming to realize, through other peoples’ accounts, just what an impact the building itself did actually have. Yes, the history was made by the people playing the game and populating the stadium, but it was encapsulated in that particular place. No other.
I plan on watching the rest of the games, as well as reading the morning’s paper, from this point on with a box of tissues by my side. Sigh.
I hope the ghosts find the new place hospitable.
Gayle -
Wouldn’t that statue be totally awesome?! I hope it’s not just a rumor. I get chills just thinking about what it would look like.
“I hope it makes you feel better, I got teary-eyed reading Graziano’s account, too”
Yes it does make me feel better!
Thanks for telling me that.
Trisha -
Anytime!
It is so wonderful to know there is a kindred spirit out there who totally understands that swell of emotion that seems to come far too often lately!
I don’t know …maybe it’s a female thing with the crying but I’ve been to two games already this week and I’ll be there tonight and Sunday. Starting with last Sunday I keep tearing up just looking around and remembering all the great things I have witnessed at the Stadium over the past 40 years. Mickey is my all time fav and fortunately I did get to see him play but not that much till the end of his career. Even then when he came to the batter’s box the stadium was electric with anticipation. He may not have been the young man who won Triple Crowns, MVP’s, Batting Titles but when he did get hold of one the crowd just went wild. I’ll always hold that memory of seeing No. 7 standing at the plate as one of my fondest.
Last night at the game a Dad, two Grandfathers and 6 month old twin boys sat next to me in the last row in Tier 3. They only stayed for an inning but the Dad and Granddads took tons of pics with the babies all decked out in everything Yankee ..one had a Jeter shirt and the other an Arod shirt. The Dad said he wanted his boys to know they did attend a game at this magnificent site and even if they won’t remember..he’ll have plenty of pics to show them. It was so touching seeing the 3 generations sharing a final moment at the Catherdral of Baseball. Those babies were just too adorable. I’ll be bringing my baby on Sunday for the final game …she’s 25 but she is my baby after all and I raised her right …as a crazy Yankee fan like her Mom.
I will say goodbye to a dear old friend on Sunday …as Bob Hope always said ..”Thanks for the Memories”…some of the happiest in my life.
Go Yankees !!!
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sager’s clothes).
What is the Legend of Dick Stockton? I must’ve missed it.
Something about marrying Lesley Visser when she was still in college or something? That’s my guess.
And Chip Caray is a major puker. Not quite in the same league as Dwayne Staats but getting there.
At least there’s no Joe Morgan. Putz!