Matt Shepard Out as Tigers PBP, Jason Benetti In.

[mtutiger]

 

[Biff Mayhem]

My bet is on Mario Impemba returning.

[Tigeraholic1]

Thank the baseball gods! Now get C-mo out of there and we are building a winning program!

[Toddwert]

grab Kevin Brown from Orioles 

[Biff Mayhem]

5 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

My bet is on Mario Impemba returning.

Also talk Tom Paciorek out of retirement.

[Toddwert]

1 minute ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Also talk Tom Paciorek out of retirement.

Josh Lewin!!!!

[theroundsquare]

2 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Also talk Tom Paciorek out of retirement.

really?!?

[mtutiger]

I would like to see Greg Gania get the job if he wants it.... he's ML quality and some other org will end up with him eventually one imagines.

[Toddwert]

1 minute ago, mtutiger said:

I would like to see Greg Gania get the job if he wants it.... he's ML quality and some other org will end up with him eventually one imagines.

thats who i want too, but does he want to do TV?

[CMRivdogs]

Knowing the Tigers they'll simucast the tv and radio broadcasts 

[Tiger337]

Just now, CMRivdogs said:

Knowing the Tigers they'll simucast the tv and radio broadcasts 

multi-position versatility and budget efficiency.  

[CMRivdogs]

Thanks to my cell phone provider I overlayed the radio feed over the tv broadcast. Dickerson and whomever seem to be the perfect fit. Pre and postgame interviews and stuff is handled elsewhere.

I think a lot will depend on the fate of Bally Sports

[Toddwert]

8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Knowing the Tigers they'll simucast the tv and radio broadcasts 

how much of the broadcast do the Tigers pay for

[romad1]

Did Matt Shepherd cover the end of season press conference yesterday? 

[Toddwert]

Just now, romad1 said:

Did Matt Shepherd cover the end of season press conference yesterday? 

it was odd at the end of sundays game i noticed Keating just said bye to CMo and Shep there was no talk about see you next season or in March 

[RatkoVarda]

when you have good TV and radio guys, they become part of the fabric of the team's identity - Harwell, Dickerson, Kell, Kaline.

the Bally broadcast is just awful - seems aimed at casual fans with lots of things to distract from the actual game

at least they tried a lot of guys this year, so that's good

[mtutiger]

2 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

when you have good TV and radio guys, they become part of the fabric of the team's identity - Harwell, Dickerson, Kell, Kaline.

the Bally broadcast is just awful - seems aimed at casual fans with lots of things to distract from the actual game

at least they tried a lot of guys this year, so that's good

To me, it was a really bad sign when the games where CMo, Todd Jones and Petry covered the games without a PBP announcer ended up more entertaining than a typical broadcast.

With a better PBP announcer, that wouldn't be the case....

[Toddwert]

Shep seemed like too much of a fan boy ... nothing was ever criticized. He would get way too excited when the team did  anything positive

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

 

About as surprising as the Sun rising in the East. If we can assume Harris is generally going to demand a higher level of performance/accountability than Al did, there was no way that broadcast was not going to be re-constituted.

[Biff Mayhem]

1 hour ago, theroundsquare said:

really?!?

For sure! I always liked Whimpy. 

[Biff Mayhem]

2 hours ago, Toddwert said:

Josh Lewin!!!!

My favorite of the modern broadcasters.

[gehringer_2]

Just now, Toddwert said:

Shep seemed like too much of a fan boy ... nothing was ever criticized. He would get way too excited when the team did  anything positive

Shep made a conscious decision to maintain a position of complete intellectual inferiority to his color ex-player. There may a certain kind journalistic truth in that, but it meant he would never engage his partner as an equal, and that made for a terrible broadcast in the end. Plus the fact that he simply wasn't that good technically - too much mangled syntax, losing track of what was going on, etc. Shep has a good voice, but that was about his only virtue. And of course almost any one in the booth would have suffered for the absolutely terrible overall production by Bally. Johnny Kane especially had descended into some kind of drooling idiocy that never should have been allowed within 100 meters of an IP feed.

[Toddwert]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

Shep made a conscious decision to maintain a position of complete intellectual inferiority to his color ex-player. There may a certain kind journalistic truth in that, but it meant he would never engage his partner as an equal, and that made for a terrible broadcast in the end. Plus the fact that he simply wasn't that good technically - too much mangled syntax, losing track of what was going on, etc. Shep has a good voice, but that was about his only virtue. And of course almost any one in the booth would have suffered for the absolutely terrible overall production by Bally. Johnny Kane especially had descended into some kind of drooling idiocy that never should have been allowed within 100 meters of an IP feed.

all true... the best thing would be just to reboot the whole broadcast but i dont think they will do that

[Motor City Sonics]

Bring in Tito Francona to do color.  He would be absolutely fantastic (I am guessing he'll have a national TV studio gig).    

[Tenacious D]

Dirks is the best of all of the ex-players