Have you heard the story about the Mets TV announcers selling T-Shirts for charity? If not, click here for the details.
In my opinion, this is one area where SNY has a leg up on YES. By going with three primary guys in the booth for most games, you do build something among the team of announcers and with the audience. It’s like the days when Phil Rizzuto, Bill White, and Frank Messer covered the Yankees games on TV. They knew each other, had fun, you got to know them, and you had fun with them as well.
Today, YES has seven guys that they use in the TV booth and you never know, coming into a series, which ones you’ll get – or, how many. Sometimes it’s a two-man booth and sometimes it’s three. Just like a ballclub, it’s hard to build on something when you keep moving the parts around in different combinations, etc.
In any event, it’s cool what the Mets announcers are doing with these shirts. It’s too bad that we can’t see something like this happening on the Yankees side too. And, (no pun intended) yes, as a Yankees fan, it hurts me to have to admit this…
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May 15th, 2008 at 10:07 am
This doesn’t count?
http://tinyurl.com/2og7jz
May 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am
just the play by play alone is better on SNY hands down… but i think the analysis by Darling and Hernandez is better than what YES currently offers, too.
and they make the games really fun to watch. i think there is definately something to be said for having regulars in the booth who the viewers can build a relationship with.
but i’ll be happy if they just start with axing Kay.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
bfriley76 – the YES Network, and the Yankees announcers, have nothing to do with those YANKEES UNIVERSE shirts.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:43 am
~~~but i’ll be happy if they just start with axing Kay.~~~
Hey, if Mel Allen could get fired, it could happen to anyone. Some day, some way, Kay will be sent packing too.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I don’t even understand how Kay got hired. The Danny Aiello connection? It has never made any sense.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
It is interesting to me that the Yankees consider themselves the class of baseball in how they behave, how they dress, etc. They’re aiming to be the epitome of all things “classically baseball” and yet their broadcast team on the radio and TV stinks. How could the team not address this? Michael Kay, John Sterling, and Suzyn Waldman are all horrendous.
Just give Ken Singleton the booth and pair him with Flash Flaherty and, health permitting, Bobby Murcer. Enough dicking around.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I don’t even understand how Kay got hired.
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Kay has been covering the team for what seems like forever. I guess he somehow got an “in” while doing the postgame reports on MSG?
May 16th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I didn’t like Kay when he was on the radio, and he hasn’t gotten any better. I don’t care how he got hired, but I really wish they would fire him.
I do like that the Yankees have some different perspectives, but they have too many people rotating through the booth. It should not be more than 4 or 5 throughout the season.