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TBS - MLB Postseason Announcers

Putting carts before horses for a moment...

Would they put Chip and Stoney together to do a Cubs playoff game?

What about Chip and Brenly?

Would there be on-air acrimony...or just a lot of sports radio talk about it?
 
N_D_Radioguy said:
Putting carts before horses for a moment...

Would they put Chip and Stoney together to do a Cubs playoff game?

What about Chip and Brenly?

Would there be on-air acrimony...or just a lot of sports radio talk about it?
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Chip Caray and Tony Gwynn are paired up. The others haven't been announced yet.

But it would be funny if they had paired up Caray and Stoney. Putting them on a Cubs game (assuming of course they win the NL Central) would certainly be a thorn in the Tribune Company's side. ;D Too bad it won't happen.
 
Well it looks like the same thing when baseball is on Fox is going to be done by a lot of people - turn the sound down and stick on the radio.
 
I think Chip & Joe would be naturally paired as the lead duo for TBS' Coverage. They've done it for the Braves for a long time, and it will be carried over. as TBS plans to separate itself from WTBS, as the latter will become PeachTV as of October 1st. I think TNT will provide additional coverage as well. Next season, The Braves will be on PeachTV, and MLB will be on every sunday afternoons on TBS.
 
Dick Stockton needs to retire. He was great but is now over the hill...Like Barry Bonds in San Francisco...all good things must come to an end...
 
Does anyone know if these games will be available to Atlanta viewers since WTBS will be going away? I'd have to imagine that the TBS cable network will become a part of the cable lineups there aside from PeachTV, but I'm not sure.
 
Oh, Skip Carey is none too thrilled with being left off this team. I have to agree with him that bringing over a part time tennis announcer (Robinson) and one that does hoops and football (Stockton) shouldn't trump a man that does baseball every day...
 
With the new deal this season for MLB Postseason. ESPN has no ALDS or NLDS. I thought they got part of the contract when it was done. But I looked at the schedule for MLB 2007 postseason and its just on TBS/TNT and FOX.
 
Obviously, ESPN has been carrying MLB since 1990, and I was figuring if they have some interest in covering the playoffs. But, looks there is none because Turner now has all four playoff series + The NLCS. FOX alone will carry ONLY the ALCS+ The World Series. Both Nets will alternate next season with The ALCS on Turner, and The NLCS on FOX in 2008, and vice-versa down the line. It will make sense financially and will free up to just 14 dates.
 
Per the Chicago Tribune, the TBS broadcast teams are (so far):

NL
Cubs - Diamondbacks: Don Orsillo & Joe Simpson
Phillies - Padres/Rockies: Not announced yet (either Dick Stockton or Ted Robinson, with Tony Gwynn as analyst since the others are already assigned)

AL
Yankees - Indians: Chip Caray & Bob Brenly
Red Sox - Angels: PBP man not announced (Robinson or Stockton) & Steve Stone

I'd love to see Caray paired up with either Brenly or Stone for the Cubs/D'backs series, but maybe TBS and/or MLB is concerned about conflicts of interest. Caray and Stone are former Cub broadcasters, while Brenly is the current WGN color guy and a former Diamondbacks manager. However, Caray & Brenly (with Gwynn) will be doing the NLCS games regardless of whether the Cubs make it or not.

Link: ChicagoSports.com
 
Game times are now set for the first two days:

Wednesday
3:00 ET--Padres or Rockies at Phillies (Game 1)
6:30 ET--Angels at Red Sox (Game 1)
10:00 ET--Cubs at Diamondbacks (Game 1)

Thursday
3:00 ET--Padres or Rockies at Phillies (Game 2)
6:30 ET--Yankees at Indians (Game 1)
10:00 ET--Cubs at Diamondbacks (Game 2)

Pre-game show starting at 2:30 Eastern both days.

I do like the fact the games start every 3 and a half hours instead of every 3 hours like ESPN did, but I expect the folks on the East Coast won't be too thrilled with the 10:00 starts. What would be so wrong with 1, 4:30, and 8 Eastern time? I thought TBS might use a little more common sense than that.

As for the announcers, I wish they'd kept Chip and Joe together like they were most of the time on TBS for the Braves this year. And I definitely wish they'd let Skip call the playoffs.

Don Sutton was a Braves announcer for TBS until this year when he turned down only postseason from TBS and then went to MASN for the Nationals.
 
Studio20 said:
Oh, Skip Carey is none too thrilled with being left off this team. I have to agree with him that bringing over a part time tennis announcer (Robinson) and one that does hoops and football (Stockton) shouldn't trump a man that does baseball every day...
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Ever consider that Skip has some health issues, namely diabetes? Skip mainly has done home Braves games never going out on the road. Now if the Braves were in the post-season, on the other hand...
 
jdkaraokeking said:
I do like the fact the games start every 3 and a half hours instead of every 3 hours like ESPN did, but I expect the folks on the East Coast won't be too thrilled with the 10:00 starts. What would be so wrong with 1, 4:30, and 8 Eastern time? I thought TBS might use a little more common sense than that.
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Doesn't this argument come up every postseason? Just like East Coasters won't be too happy with the 10P starts, as a Left Coaster, I would be very annoyed with 10AM starts on weekdays. That would mean two full games would be played during the work day. I think these are the best times to get the most eyeballs from across the country on the games, rather than just focusing on one region.

Back to what Keith was talking about, I couldn't agree more about having Chip paired with Stoney or BB for the Cubs. Maybe it just makes too much sense? And why not have Don Orsillo call the Red Sox series? I would think having these guys calling the teams they work all season would lend some great insight for playoff viewers. I would also think these guys are all professional enough to tone down their slight "homerish" ways that become apparent over the course of a regular season.
 
I hope Don Orsillo does the Red Sox games. It's so stupid when the games are on national tv and they have idiotic announcers that don't know the team. They should keep the home announcers when they go national.

How awesome would that be if Orsillo and Remy did the calls for the games!!!
 
jdkaraokeking said:
I do like the fact the games start every 3 and a half hours instead of every 3 hours like ESPN did, but I expect the folks on the East Coast won't be too thrilled with the 10:00 starts. What would be so wrong with 1, 4:30, and 8 Eastern time? I thought TBS might use a little more common sense than that.
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Who cares what us East Coasters think when it comes to the home teams of west coast teams. Perhaps it's YOU who needs to use some common sense. Your beef is with MLB, not TBS, as MLB does the schedule.
 
jdkaraokeking said:
I do like the fact the games start every 3 and a half hours instead of every 3 hours like ESPN did, but I expect the folks on the East Coast won't be too thrilled with the 10:00 starts. What would be so wrong with 1, 4:30, and 8 Eastern time? I thought TBS might use a little more common sense than that.
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Believe it or not, MLB is actually attempting to make it convenient for the fans that are attending the games and are watching TV in the markets that the games are being played in. They don't particularly care if ESPN has to run Sportscenter a bit late, or if folks in the Eastern time zone have to stay up past their bedtime to watch the Cubs & Diamondbacks in Phoenix (read: those are not eastern teams).

Philly's getting shortchanged a bit with those weekday late-afternoon games today and tomorrow, but that's about all.
 
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