Hey AA, TBS has all 4 divisions series and the NLCS, so they needed 8 people and I think Ripken is going to be in the studio?

I think TBS is already better and they haven't done a game this playoff year.

Yeah you're right Rob. Cal is on pregame duty but I think they'll do it on location once the NLCS rolls around.

I think I agree B-Sells.

Orsillo and Stockton are both play-by-play guys, while Simpson and Stone are both former players. Not sure how your suggested pairings would work like that.

Crap you're right....don't know why I was thinking Orsillo was an analyst. I'm a dumbass.

How do you NOT put Chip and Stone back together - especially for a series involving the Cubs?

That would be great if there wasn't bad blood between them. I remember Stone saying he would never do another Cubbies game at one point. He got hammered by their fans.

are you kidding me? the fans love Stoney, and he knows that. He left the Cubs thanks to some unprecedented front-office fuckery.

oh, and it's Brenly, not Brenley.

Well as I recall it was a mixed bag based on the negativity he and Caray were saying about the team. Either way I don't know if TBS would want him on a Cubs series knowing the past history.

Thanks for the Brenly editing as well.

Dick Stockton is great. I thought he was magic for the Warriors/Mavs series this year. Too bad Reggie Miller fucked it up.

I think I have said this before but, where is Bob Costas? Normally when a new network gets rights to a league they make an announcing team splash. Now granted I haven't heard some of the guys that were listed yet so I could be wrong. But what bigger baseball name than Bob Costas outside of Vinny Scully. I know he has HBO/NBC duties but even if he only did one or two games in the whole playoffs with Brenly that would be gold.

What does everybody think?

Brett

gmoney - really? I've never heard more name/stat flubs in my life.

TBS HD better be availible by the time the postseason comes

Steve Stone is God! The power of Stoney compels you to get Illinois Vehicle Insurance!

(and note to whoever claimed he said he would never do another Cubs game - he's done plenty for ESPN)

GMoney - I think Costas has fallen out of love with baseball by this point, and at any rate, wouldn't his HBO contract preclude him from working on another cable network?

I assume ESPN will me moving their main TV crews (Miller, Morgan, O'Brien, Sutcliffe, Hersheiser) over to the radio side along with Shulman and Campbell.

Yep, Stone left the Cubbies because he ripped players for playing shitty on the air (rightly so), and those players got pissed off and put pressure on the front office to oust him.