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Baseball Coverage

Did there used to be podcasts of "Hot Stove League"? Not able to catch the scheduled show. But, Lance will air 3 hrs from Friday's Reds Fest. (Riggleman a great baseball guy - glad he was named Mets bench coach!)
 
Thanks! Now I know - duh. (I realize I had the content too large on WLW homepage - and could not scroll to very bottom of podcast list!) Now I see it! Really enjoyed Lance's line-up of players from Reds Fest. Interesting mix of personalities & info.
 
rivercity said:
I made a similar point on Hal McCoy's blog: by restricting access to games (compared to what TV coverage used to be during baseball season), MLB's kinda shot themselves in the foot, resulting in attendance drops. Nice job by Mo (in for Lance) tonight w/Reds analysis.
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I like the line "compared to what TV coverage used to be ..." because nowadays, it's easy to forget that as recently as the early 90s, seeing the Reds on TV was a treat. Channel 5 and their network affiliates carried, what, 50 games a year? Here in Columbus, our local Fox affiliate also carried Reds TV Network games but not all of them (unlike, say, WHIO, which did carry all of them). Seeing a home game on TV was a bigger treat because barely any of them were shown, outside the few WLWT and affiliates carried in addition to those shown by WGN, TBS or even ESPN.
SportsChannel Cincinnati carried maybe another 50 games, but they were a premium channel and not on basic cable like Fox Sports Ohio is today.
It was standard practice in many small to mid-size markets then, even a market as big as Houston, that not all games were shown. Full slates as shown by WGN, TBS and a few other networks were exceptions, not the rule.
I think it was maybe 2007 or so when televised Reds games exceeded 100 and a few years after that when FS Ohio began to air the entire schedule.
 
WLW on top of Winter Mtgs. - Seg got Reds new acquire pitcher Tanner Roark on air w/Lance just after the trade announced. (I wish I'd had money on that. What are the odds of a Tanner traded for a Tanner?)
 
Lance posted an interview w/Marty on his blog. The show was "High Heat" hosted by "Mad Dog" Chris Russo. Now there's an interesting guy. Took the quirks of his part N.Y./part Brit(his mother)/part Aussie(studied in Australia) accent and built a radio career. Caught my attention w/his quick delivery & accent I couldn't quite place - so I looked up his info.
 
Marty made his retirement official today. Let's hope the Redlegs can make his final season on the air a memorable one. One thing's for sure, listening to the Reds on the radio will never be the same, so many fans like me have lived their entire lives hearing his voice call games, it's going to be a little strange in 2020.
 
Good of WLW to air Thrall's debut today (rather than 1360) as regular on the Reds broadcast team. (He will also fill the post-game spot which did not have a regular host last season.) Show 'em what ya got big guy!
 
OK - and Lance just announced he will be the dedicated weekday Inside Pitch & Extra Innings host. Great idea - he's all in & has all the local background. This gives a lot of continuity to the broadcasts.
 
And Extra Innings now available on Lance's podcast - (as well as Paul Dehner Jr. on weekends podcast). Now that is solid coverage!
 
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