It's Gary, Keith & Ron all the way!

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Athletic surveys fans to determine baseball's best broadcast booths.



https://theathletic.com/1864438/2020/06/16/the-athletics-2020-mlb-broadcast-survey-unveiling-your-pick-for-best-booth/https://theathletic.com/1864438/2020/06/16/the-athletics-2020-mlb-broadcast-survey-unveiling-your-pick-for-best-booth/



The Tigers finish 30th out of 30 teams. The Yanks finish 12th, with high marks for ex-Met David Cone.



Guess which team topped the list?

1. New York Mets The broadcast: SportsNet New York (SNY): Gary Cohen (play-by-play), Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling (analysts), Steve Gelbs (field) The results: The trio of Cohen, Hernandez and Darling has anchored SNY's coverage of the Mets since the networks' inception in '06. The Mets edged the Giants for top spot in our rankings (4.91 to 4.88) in large part because of Cohen (4.96), who anchors baseball's best booth and earned top marks in the play-by-play category. “GKR” is on top for a reason: “Being a Mets fan is a tough lot in life, but one thing we've got going for us is Gary, Keith and Ron,” wrote one respondent. “It's a golden age for us.” The consensus is Hernandez (hitters) and Darling (pitchers) are best when it comes to explaining “the mindsets of their respective positions, and Gary ties it all together seamlessly.” The three seems to strike a perfect chord of what fans want: Knowledge of the game, history of the team, camaraderie in the booth and enough wit sprinkled in to make it all work. I still think Cohen's call of Bartolo Colon's first career homer is easily one of the most fun calls in recent memory. "Bartolo has done it! The impossible has happened!" – @Mets TV broadcaster Gary Cohenhttps://t.co/IMQ1qVDBTs — MLB (@MLB) May 8, 2016 In closing, I will share the comments from a reader named Ed, whose name I know because he included it, along with his address and phone number, as part of the survey: “I'd take the three of them out to lunch.” So Gary, Keith and Ron: If you're reading, lunch is on Ed.

[LWFS]

If there were one thing I'd change about these guys, it's that there's such a through-gritted-teeth attitude regarding numbers. In a way, though... that's another, supplementary way of engaging the audience.





I'll grant that the Giants crew is not bad, though. Honestly, I think Keith's Q-rating is what puts us over the top.

[Ceetar]

I've almost never watched any of the other tv broadcasts.



The lack of attention to stats is tiresome, as it is ignoring The 7 Line Army.



Gelbs is pretty much useless.



But the rest of it is real good, and I miss it.

[bmfc1]

There will be less GKR in '22 (if/when):

This means that for a number of games per season, local fans:

1) will only be able to watch their team on A+; 2) won't hear their local announcers; 3) will have to get A+ even if they subscribe to the local RSN; while MLB dilutes the value of http://mlb.tvhttp://mlb.tv for subs.

[MFS62]

Say to yourself, "MLB is fan friendly. MLB is fan friendly"

If you say it enough times, maybe you'll believe it.

Or maybe not.



Later

[kcmets]

Wtf is Apple TV+? Sounds rotten to the core.



(this will probably only affect us Mets fans a handful of times each year if

they don't (can't) load up on the big market teams while ignoring the small ones.

Kinda like ESPN and FOX or whoever can't only air Yankee games every week?)



(of course we'll get screwed out of a few YouTube games too.)

[G-Fafif]

Apple TV+ is a streaming service à la Netflix. It is best known as the home of Ted Lasso. Like those YouTube or Facebook Live games of recent vintage, this indeed projects as an annoyance. Thank goodness for good ol' radio.

[kcmets]

I forgot about the Fb games, the handfuls of games grows larger.



MLB has time to negotiate this but no time fix the season. Assclowns.

[seawolf17]

I swear to fucking fuck, MLB. CUT IT THE FUCK OUT.

[kcmets]

DEADSPIN (03/08/2022, 14:47 ET):

https://deadspin.com/for-mlb-players-streaming-deal-is-rotten-apple-1848623731For MLB players, streaming deal is rotten Apple

[Edgy MD]

[bLOCKQUOTE]MLB's new streaming deal with Apple is why the Major League Baseball Players Association needs to scrap its entire bargaining strategy and go for a salary cap.[/bLOCKQUOTE]

Just in case that it wasn't clear that the new Deadspin bears little relation to the prior publication to bear that name.

[Fman99]

For those of you with a bit of technical savvy, and the stomach to click through pop up ads, Mets games that are only available on pay-for subscription services can be found in real time and streamed to your TV. It's shady business but I know a guy who knows a guy.

[Methead]

=Fman99 post_id=86634 time=1646820783 user_id=86]
It's shady business but I know a guy who knows a guy.

[kcmets]

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[kcmets]

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[Methead]

Thanks, I never remember how to embed those things.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=kcmets post_id=86587 time=1646768964 user_id=53]
I forgot about the Fb games, the handfuls of games grows larger.



MLB has time to negotiate this but no time fix the season. Assclowns.

Edited March 9, 2022 by Guest

[kcmets]

Well, at least you didn't call me a retard. Or retarded. Or my post retarded.



Not sure how many here would get away with that for long. Myself included.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=kcmets post_id=86689 time=1646854677 user_id=53]
Well, at least you didn't call me a retard. Or retarded. Or my post retarded.



Not sure how many here would get away with that for long. Myself included.

[bmfc1]

Good morning, Mets Fans! Get ready for 11:30 AM baseball, exclusively on Peacock.

https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/peacocks-package-of-mlb-games-will-reportedly-air-on-sunday-mornings-and-afternoons-and-will-be-exclusive.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterhttps://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/peacocks-package-of-mlb-games-will-reportedly-air-on-sunday-mornings-and-afternoons-and-will-be-exclusive.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Willets Point]

Having been to the Patriots Day game at Fenway multiple times, I'm a fan of morning baseball.

[Frayed Knot]

A quote from one of the teammates in Jim Bounton's BALL FOUR when told that a late morning start was upcoming on their schedule; 'Ten-Thirty .... I'm not even done throwing up at that hour!'

[G-Fafif]

The Mets will raise the Apple+ twice in the season's first half.