It was like they where covering a blowout or something.


Then one of them said one the the Red Sox has pop in his bat and he only hit four homeruns.

MLB should let each teams stations and team announcers call it and carry it and whatever vacinity your in you get that teams announcers.

espn sucks,fox sucks, and tbs sucks

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"This segment is actually fairly decent, and I think it will be a hit on the bigger stage, but it would really help to get Ernie someone to play off of. He was the closest thing to a straight man that the NBA on TNT had, and to put him next to an even straighter straight man is a recipe for dull."

I couldn't agree with you more. Excellent recap

couldnt be worse than the absolute 'i dont give a fuck about this' attitude the fox announcers took to geoff blum's walkoff homer in the world series two years ago

all in all i think it was a solid broadcast, espn or fox wouldve done a lot worse. only real gripe is that they kept excluding the homerun/double from the in game recaps

you must have not seen the same or fox and espn have you craving for anything, becasue I hope it gets better

probably that the latter have just ruined it yeah

one more week and i will go to the radio.

hopefully, shulman and soup will be on radio, the are 100 times better than any national announcers.

How could TBS have only two camera angles for the controversial homer? Methinks the production value is related to the between-inning cutaways to Ernie and Cal. TBS couldn't sell the ad time, so they tried to slide the game production by on the cheap. Asstastic.

I'll take EJ and Cal over Jeannie Zelasko and Kevin Kennedy 24/7/365. I was channel surfing most of the night, but what I did see was not all that bad. Sure, it could've been better, but every new idea has a few kinks that need to get worked out. To be honest, I'd rather have restrained than the bombasity that is ESPN, or the "we own baseball's ass" attitude of FOX.

I agree with the post for the most part. The broadcast was focused more on the game itself than hype (like Fox), but it would have been nice for Orsillo or Simpson to convey how exciting or energetic it was to be there.

There were definitely some budgetary restraints with the camera angles, or so it seemed. Also, did anyone notice Joe Simpson refer to the heavy woman in the outfield by Atkins double as a "gentleman?" Oops.

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Chicago-area Comcast doesn't get TBS in HD, so I couldnt' even see the ball during the non-home run replays.

Also, perhaps the production values were low because they had about a day to prepare their telecast.

So was Cal stiff or limp? you gotta decide because we either send him to the ER under the four hour rule or we can give him another blue pill for Wednesday.

The wild card game is 3pm not 3am

It was a five-hour broadcast. I'm sure Cal went from stiff to limp in that time, Steve. As would anyone.

Give me a break, Steve - I WROTE it a three A.M.

i thought the two tbs announcers were like listening to paint dry...i thought orsillo was trying to liven it up... the lack of annoying graphics was nice. cal ripken did a good job...i think orsillo being a sox announcer did try to convey the energy but being his 1st broadcast i think he held back a bit...all in all better than fox but i agree i think the local or team announcers should do the games...