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Major League Baseball on TBS
Format Baseball
Starring Chip Caray
Tony Gwynn
Craig Sager
Ernie Johnson, Jr.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
(for more, see below)
Country of origin Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Production
Running time 3 hours
Broadcast
Original channel TBS (2007-)
Original run July 1, 2007 – Present
External links
Official website

Major League Baseball on TBS is a broadcasting agreement between Major League Baseball and Turner Sports to broadcast baseball via cable television nationwide, beginning in 2007.

Contents

[edit] The agreement

TBS expands their role as a national broadcast partner of Major League Baseball.

See also: Braves TBS Baseball

[edit] Coverage

Under an agreement signed on July 11, 2006, TBS earned exclusive rights to all Division Series playoff games, as well as rights to the All-Star Selection Show held in late June or early July, beginning in 2007. A national Sunday afternoon baseball package is also part of the deal, starting in 2008. Additional games are planned for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day. These games will not be exclusive to TBS but will be blacked out in local markets (an alternate game is currently scheduled to be offered).

TBS will also air any tie-breaker games for divisional or wild card championships. Should multiple tie-breaking games be played, or if multiple Division Series game are scheduled at the same time, those additional games would air on TBS’ sister station, TNT.

The first telecast from TBS' new baseball package was the 2007 All-Star Selection Show, which was delayed from a scheduled start time of 4 p.m. Eastern time to nearly 6 p.m. due to the previous program (Atlanta Braves at Florida Marlins) lasting 10 innings after a 90-minute rain delay.

On October 1, 2007, the network presented its first game under the new deal: a game between the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres, which broke the tie for the National League's wild card slot. Play-by-play man Don Orsillo, color commentator Joe Simpson and field reporter Craig Sager called the action. The Rockies beat the Padres, 9-8, in a dramatic 13-inning game. Two days later came its first Division Series games, a tripleheader that began at 3:08 p.m. Eastern time and lasted throughout the day.

TBS has announced the launch of a high-definition feed, as of September 1, 2007. A regional feed for the Southeast is also possible in the future, as WPCH, the renamed WTBS, will continue to broadcast 45 Braves games per season in Atlanta. Turner Sports has not yet announced how they will make those games available outside Atlanta. Turner also expects to offer TBS' national feed in Atlanta as TBS and WPCH will have some differences in programming beyond baseball.

[edit] Availability

Playoff games on TBS will not be made available[1] to local over-the-air broadcasters in the participating team's markets[2]. Under the previous contract, ESPN was required to make those games available on the air in local markets.

[edit] League Championship Series

On October 17, 2006, TBS agreed to a seven year agreement with Major League Baseball to broadcast the National League Championship Series and American League Championship Series in alternating years from 2007 to 2013. TBS will have the NLCS in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 and the ALCS in 2008, 2010 and 2012. As part of another deal reached earlier in the summer, FOX will continue to broadcast the ALCS, in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013, and the NLCS, in 2008, 2010 and 2012.

[edit] Announcers[3]

On January 28, 2007, TBS' executive producer Jeff Behnke[4] said that Chip Caray "is definitely going to be TBS' lead play-by-play announcer for division series and LCS games."[5] On April 5, 2007, TBS announced that joining Caray in the lead booth will be Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, who has experience in broadcasting with ESPN and the San Diego Padres.[6]

It was also confirmed that Joe Simpson and other members of the Braves broadcast team will be a part of postseason coverage, but their roles were not immediately announced. It has also been reported that the network was in talks with former Braves announcer Don Sutton if he agrees to a playoff only contract. Simpson has since been paired with Don Orsillo (see below). Neither Sutton nor Skip Caray, Chip's father, will be part of coverage; Caray was vocal about being snubbed in comments he made to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[7]

Also on April 5, 2007, TBS announced that the studio team for its baseball coverage (beginning with the All-Star Game Selection Show on July 1 will be Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson, Jr. along with the other member of the 2007 Baseball Hall of Fame class, Cal Ripken, Jr.[8] On September 24, it was announced that the studio show would also include Frank Thomas, who currently plays for the Toronto Blue Jays.

[edit] Personalities[9]

[edit] Play-by-play

[edit] Color commentators

[edit] Field reporters

[edit] Studio anchors

[edit] Studio analysts

[edit] Announcing teams

Major League Baseball on TBS announcing teams[34][35][36]
Season Event Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Field reporter(s) LDS NLCS
2007 2007 MLB Playoffs Chip Caray[37] Tony Gwynn and Bob Brenly Craig Sager Cleveland vs. New York Arizona vs. Colorado
Dick Stockton Ron Darling Marc Fein Arizona vs. Chicago n/a
Ted Robinson Steve Stone José Mota Boston vs. Los Angeles n/a
Don Orsillo Joe Simpson David Aldridge Colorado vs. Philadelphia n/a

[edit] Coverage details

TBS typically begins coverage with the pregame show MLB on Deck, followed by the first pitch of the first game about 38 minutes later. Each day's coverage ends with Inside MLB, its version of Inside the NBA.

All games in the Division Series round are presented back-to-back, with each game scheduled for a 3½-hour window. If a game exceeds this window, the first pitch of the next game will be switched to TNT. If a game ends within 3½ hours, the studio team will return for interstitial programming.[38]

TBS switched the starts of four games to TNT in the Division Series round because the previous games exceeded the time limit. TNT was also scheduled to air game 4 of the Diamondbacks-Cubs series, which overlapped with game 3 of the Red Sox-Angels series, but the former game was not played; the night before, the D-Backs completed a three game sweep of the Cubs.

The on-screen score graphic[39] covers the entire top of the screen, unlike the Braves TBS Baseball graphic, which only took up the first half of the top. The look is almost identical to that of from FOX's baseball coverage[40], except that the illustration of the basepaths is near the left side of the screen instead of flush on the right.

TBS does not show commercial breaks after the third and sixth innings. Instead, it airs a "Game Break" allowing the studio host and analysts more air time. The studio shows originate from Studio J in Atlanta, Georgia, the same one used for TNT's NBA coverage.

[edit] Problems

  • Some sports media critics were critical of the announcers used in the coverage as being more skewed towards the National League than the American League, along with the choice of Caray as the lead voice of the network's coverage, as he had only done Braves baseball telecasts in the 2007 season before the launch of TBS' playoff coverage[41].
  • The video and audio from the TBS feed was inconsistent[42]. At times, the picture skipped like a groove on a broken record, and at one point in the fifth inning of Game 1 of the Yankees-Indians series, no sound came from the announcers' microphones at all.
  • Frank Thomas' work as a studio analyst was panned by various newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. His most notable moment came when he was asked three times whether he hated to face Angels' pitcher John Lackey or Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett more; he declined to respond each time. In fairness, Thomas is still an active player with the Toronto Blue Jays, a member of the American League along with the Angels and the Red Sox.
  • When the Phillies' lineup was introduced in Game 1, Wes Helms' name was misspelled "West Helms."[43]

[edit] Programming firsts

(All dates in 2007)

[edit] Ratings

Main article: Ratings for Major League Baseball on TBS telecasts

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Say what? Fox, like other broadcast networks, reach more than 113 million U.S. households who own TVs. Cablecaster TBS is accessible in only about 90 million households and doesn't even have the potential reach cablecaster ESPN had on its playoff coverage last year. ESPN also put its game coverage on local over-the-air TV in the cities of participating teams. So, with less accessibility into TV households, TBS' first-round coverage would logically have lower TV ratings than the first-round coverage on Fox and ESPN last year. That was made even more likely considering that viewer interest, in any sport, usually builds the longer that playoff series last — and TBS had three of its four first-round series end in sweeps.
  2. ^ Postseason exclusivity boosted the price for TBS. If MLB continued to allow local outlets to air their team's games, the rights would have been "significantly diluted," according to Neal Pilson, the former president of CBS Sports who now runs a broadcast consulting company. "The TBS sales people now can assure advertisers that this is the only place where people can see the games," Pilson said. "It's a judgment baseball had to make. It had to balance the revenue stream, which is formidable, against the loss of a certain number of homes."
  3. ^ TBS getting its postseason roster in order
  4. ^ And while I’m at it, I’d tell Jeff Behnke, the executive producer of Turner Sports, to make even greater use of the impressionist Frank Caliendo than TBS already is during games with frequent promos for his TBS sketch comedy program, “Frank TV.” (Funny how they keep interrupting his promos for baseball, isn’t it?) You must enliven your show. Send Caliendo in for relief. He does a terrific Barkley.
  5. ^ ajc.com
  6. ^ sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news #1
  7. ^ Skip Caray, Subbed byTBS, Takes Shots
  8. ^ sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news #2
  9. ^ usatoday.com/sports
  10. ^ First, during TBS' Yanks-Indians Game 2 telecast, Chip Caray twice told us - once in the bottom of the eighth, once in the top of the ninth - that, “The winning run is on second." Caray was lucky neither scored or he'd have been left to explain why the game continued, anyway.
  11. ^ Then there is Chip Caray, TBS’s lead baseball announcer, who has been calling the Yankees-Indians division series and will work deeper into the postseason on the National League Championship Series. His play-by-play of the Yankees’ 8-4 win in Game 3 on Sunday night was packed with errors and silly strategy, enough to give me agita. Caray’s skein of faux pas in Game 3, as well as during Game 2, befogged his announcing like the insects that swarmed Joba Chamberlain on Friday night. He stated that Derek Jeter was playing in his 49th postseason game — “No. 1 of all time.” Truth: it was his 49th division series game, out of 122 postseason games. He likened the “dynamic duo” of Chamberlain and Mariano Rivera to the Rivera-John Wetteland bullpen pairing in “those great early years of Joe Torre,” when they were dominating the World Series. Truth: Rivera and Wetteland were Yankee teammates for two seasons, and Torre managed them only in 1996. He said the “Yankees led the world” in home runs this season with 201. He liked saying it so much he said it again. Truth: The Brewers led the majors with 231, followed by the Phillies with 213 and the Reds at 204. The Yankees and Marlins were tied at 201. He extolled Alex Rodriguez’s “offensive heroics in the first two months of the season” for keeping the Yankees in the race. Truth: A-Rod had a sensational April, but he slumped in May to a .235 batting average with 5 home runs and 11 runs batted in. He introduced Indians reliever Joe Borowski in Game 3 as having played for the Brewers and the Reds. Truth: He never played for Milwaukee, and while he once signed with the Reds, he never made it out of spring training. Caray also noted his hometown, Bayonne, N.J., but pronounced it as if it were part of the Louisiana bayou.
  12. ^ I won’t go on at length about Caray’s miscues during the Yankees-Indians division series as I did yesterday. But during Game 4, he wrongly situated the Chrysler Building in downtown Manhattan during a blimp shot; falsely named Kei Igawa as a product of the Yankees’ farm system; incorrectly said the Indians were on an “unbelievable hot streak”; clumsily described Indians starter Paul Byrd’s effective five-inning stint as “magnificent” and fumbled over the history of Mike Mussina’s relief appearances. When Johnny Damon’s sixth-inning single moved Shelley Duncan to third, Caray uttered, “The crowd is up for grabs.” I have no idea what he meant. In the eighth, he said, “Barring another run by Cleveland, it sets up Joe Borowski in the ninth.” Don’t try parsing that one; your hair will fall out.
  13. ^ As far as Caray's singular performance was concerned, well, at least he didn't curse on the air. The broadcaster was excoriated in a column this week by New York Times reporter Richard Sandomir, the most powerful sports media critic by virtue of reputation and his paper's reach. Sandomir cited a litany of offenses, from factual inaccuracies to grand pronouncements to "an annoying air of certitude." For example, during Game 2 of the Indians-Yankees series, Caray declared that the visiting Yankees had the winning run at second in the top of the ninth. As disturbing was Carey's obsession with bug puns ("Remember guys, the Nats over in the National League caused some trouble too in the final week.") Then there was his propensity to talk incessantly, which was particularly troubling since neither Brenly nor Gwynn are the type of analysts to boom out opinions in the manner of John Madden
  14. ^ TBS' Caray making his voice heard in playoffs Lead play-by-play announcer Chip Caray, in TBS' first-ever playoff coverage, has the most prominent perch of his career. And he's making full use of his megaphone. Play-by-play callers range from minimalists, such as Pat Summerall, to, well, activists such as Caray. "Activist? Is that a nice way of saying I'm talking too much?" he says. "I agree. All of us in TV talk too much." Then why keep doing it? "I love the game. I understand I don't have to sell the moment by talking about it. But if announcers aren't excited, how do you expect your audiences to be?" Like his late grandfather Harry, the legendary Cubs announcer, and father Skip, who called TBS Braves games for three decades until that TV package ended this season, Caray says he's "excitable." And like them, he says, he's not "afraid to roar like a fan." (Chip, on TBS not including Skip on its playoff coverage: "I love him. He's my hero. … It's an awkward situation because I didn't make the hires.") Caray's calls, so far, have included lots of on-air inaccuracies. Partly, he says, that came from calling American League action after having called National League games all season on TBS' Braves coverage. "I'm not perfect. But if I knowingly make a mistake, I'll try to correct it. In our high-wire act, we work without a net." Fortunately for Caray so far, he's just speaking figuratively.
  15. ^ Keeping it low key: TBS seems to want to establish itself as the anti-ESPN and anti-Fox. And this isn't a bad thing. Announcing teams offered nothing cute that screamed "look at me." Don Orsillo and Joe Simpson, working the Phillies-Rockies game, provided a straightforward, just-the-facts broadcast. Graphics were introduced with no swooshing sounds and did not overload viewers with information. All in all, a welcome relief.
  16. ^ Brenly probably had the best series of the trio. He rewarded viewers at the start of Game 4 when he said that extra velocity for a sinkerballer such as New York's Chien-Ming Wang was not a good thing. "That's when the pitch tends to straighten out," said Brenly, an observation that came exactly six seconds prior to Grady Sizemore smacking a home run off Wang to lead off the game.
  17. ^ TBS' best move was its late decision to shift Bob Brenly to its lead announcing team, with Tony Gwynn and error-prone play-by-play voice Chip Caray. Most of the sharpest observations come from Brenly, who criticizes outfielders for playing too deep, jumps on players for casual play, and dissects strategy better than Gwynn.
  18. ^ The network executive called Darling's work "phenomenal" and the analyst (he calls Mets games for the SNY network) was added to the studio coverage for the LCS series. Good move.
  19. ^ Ron Darling, added to the pregame and postgame shows this week, makes valid points but isn't the charismatic personality that the studio programming lacks.
  20. ^ When I watched Ripken at appearances in Cooperstown for his Hall of Fame induction, I sensed that his best moments came in two news conferences with his fellow inductee, Tony Gwynn. Their chemistry was very good, with Gwynn’s high energy and squeaky voice a pleasant complement to Ripken’s dignified low-key style. Gwynn is working for TBS as a game announcer, but the network would have been better served by offering viewers ready-made camaraderie with a Ripken-Gwynn studio pairing.
  21. ^ Gwynn, an eight-time batting champion, knows as much about hitting as anybody and has a passion for baseball, but he doesn't possess a big voice or a forceful on-air manner. He needs someone to draw him out as opposed to stealing his airtime.
  22. ^ Gwynn is conversational and likable, but the quality of his analysis varies, from decent at times to meandering and simplistic at other times. He spoke of the Yankees, down 2-0 in the Cleveland series, needing to take one pitch at a time, one inning at a time. Ugh.
  23. ^ Steve Stone: How this guy isn't working national telecasts on a regular basis is a complete mystery. He is arguably the best analyst in the business. Paired with Ted Robinson on the Red Sox-Angels, Stone offered a perfect amount of big-picture perspective on the series and inside baseball talk. One example came in the bottom of the first inning when Stone noted Angels left fielder Garret Anderson was positioned too deep and that Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez plays shallow in order to be in a position to best handle balls off the Green Monster in Fenway Park. A good analyst is someone who sees things even hard-core fans don't. Stone consistently does this.
  24. ^ On TBS, analyst Steve Stone went into a spiel about how doubles often are the result of players who hustle and how Anderson hustled, all the way. “That's the Angels' trademark," he said, “they run hard on everything." Terrible guess. TBS next aired tape that showed Anderson strolling down the line, before finally running. The hard evidence showed Stone to be 100 percent wrong. But that provided him the opportunity to say, “Oops, I was wrong." Beyond establishing a good-faith relationship with his audience, what harm could come from it? Instead, Stone, like so many others, stuck with his bogus claim. This is TV, so remember: Forget what you see; believe what you're told.
  25. ^ The error bug also hit the reporter Craig Sager, who reflected on the absence of Bob Sheppard, the Yankee Stadium public address announcer, and said that his first game in 1951 was between the Giants and the Yankees. Truth: The Red Sox were in town.
  26. ^ Of the current players who floated through the studio show, Tigers outfielder Curtis Granderson provided energy and humor and gave the kind of insider perspective that viewers appreciate. One network senior staffer called him "a star in the making."
  27. ^ Ripken is so iconic that criticizing him seems undignified, but he is not magnetic on the air. He is methodical, dignified, subdued, subtle and a smidgen humorous. He played in 2,632 consecutive games, so it’s great corporate imagery for TBS to associate itself with someone now equated with iron and Chevy trucks. But if Ripken were cast as the only sane man in the studio — in the mold of Fox’s Howie Long — then he needs an ally or two who can loosen him up and raise his decibel level.
  28. ^ The TBS studio show was promoted around the star power of Cal Ripken, who started bland and timid but improved by the end of the Division Series. The low-key Ripken is never going to be Charles Barkley, but the hope is that he develops into a quality analyst along the lines of Kenny Smith. It's not a coincidence that Ripken looked much more at ease after Darling arrived on the set. "I think he is growing into the role," Behnke said of Ripken. "For those who might be critical of Cal not being outspoken, Cal is as credible as they come."
  29. ^ Cal Ripken Jr. has a pleasant demeanor, smiles a lot, commands respect -- and rarely says anything particularly insightful. His analysis of Arizona's sweep of the Cubs? It's a game of execution and Arizona executed better. Oh. After Cleveland won the first two games against the Yankees, Ripken said, I'm worried about New York. You don't say? And it seemed odd when Ripken downplayed strikeouts, saying, It's just an out. But strikeouts are clearly worse than outs that advance runners.
  30. ^ Thomas is not that guy. Very few are, which is why many studio shows struggle until they find a Shannon Sharpe. Thomas, however, is a big man without a studio presence, a current player loath to sting. He offers little that is not banal; slows his sentences with nervous “ums”; looks too often at his notes rather than at Ripken or the host, Ernie Johnson; and wants to rewrite the record book to reflect his wrongheaded view that the Cubs’ Carlos Zambrano throws 120 pitches nearly every game. After the Rockies defeated the Phillies in Game 1 on Wednesday, Thomas said something that reflected his inexperience. For the Phillies, he said, “The key for the guys is to just come back tomorrow and give the guys what they need, which is a big win in Philly.” Fifteen months after signing its baseball deal, this is the best TBS can do?
  31. ^ Too much, too soon: Frank Thomas is a prime example of why it's risky to hire an active player to be in the studio. Working with host Ernie Johnson and Cal Ripken, Thomas appeared uncomfortable in front of the camera and didn't say anything that came close to criticism. It was so bad that Johnson even chided him at times. Ripken's work seemed shaky Monday night when TBS aired the one-game playoff between the Rockies and Padres but he appeared much more at ease Wednesday. One curious move by TBS was putting two position players in the studio. Why not have paired a pitcher with Ripken to provide some balance? Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson will join the studio mix as a guest analyst tonight.
  32. ^ The same cannot be said about studio analyst Frank Thomas, who morphed from the Big Hurt into the Big Cliché and made viewers long for another Auburn product employed by the same network. Thomas clearly confounded TBS officials. He was reportedly funny and engaging in the green room but when the red light came on, his commentary fell flat. Asked by host Ernie Johnson if the Yankees-Indians series would reach a Game 5, Thomas replied, "I like the momentum of the Yankees right now but this series is not over. If it gets back to Cleveland, it's a tough one to pick." (Thanks for going out on a limb, Frank.) TBS executives wouldn't say it on the record but it's a safe bet that Thomas will not be retained next season. Of course, Thomas only had a short time to prepare for his duty.
  33. ^ Guest analyst Frank Thomas -- on loan from the Blue Jays -- has something nice to say about everybody, which undermines his praise because it leaves the impression he isn't comfortable criticizing players. As a result, we get a lot of thanks-for-nothing comments such as predicting the ALCS will be a ``great, great series. Thomas, nicknamed The Big Hurt, has essentially morphed into The Big Bore.
  34. ^ TBS Names Booth Partners For MLB Division Series
  35. ^ TBS juggles broadcast teams after Mets disappear
  36. ^ The teams of Dick Stockton and Ron Darling, Ted Robinson and Steve Stone, and Don Orsillo and Joe Simpson drew mixed reviews. "Listening to Ted Robinson and Steve Stone," said Boston Magazine, "was like relaxing with a pair of Ambien." It was strange that Orsillo, who calls Red Sox games for NESN, was assigned to the Phillies-Rockies series. (Behnke said TBS felt more comfortable keeping him away from the Boston series).
  37. ^ TBS' Caray, Gwynn, Brenly need spark for NLDS Newsday
  38. ^ DirecTV onscreen program guide, retrieved September 26, 2007
  39. ^ Some of the graphics proved problematic, though. As SI's Tom Verducci pointed out, the Leadoff Line, the nine-foot arrow that measured the lead a runner gets off first base, overtly gimmicky and intrusive. Some SI.com readers complained that the graphic at the top of the screen showing how many runners were on base was too small. (To its credit, Behnke said that TBS adjusted it prior to the final game of the Indians-Yankees series by deepening the border and edgings.) Look for the same graphics to return for the LCS -- the Leadoff Line is sponsored by Travelers, not that most fans would know -- including the addition of microphones placed in the bases. "It's always a work in progress and we are our own worst critics," said Behnke, who averaged four hours of sleep during the Division Series. "We have this package for many years but I would say this: We are overwhelmingly deeply proud of what we have done through the divisional series and I can assure you that it will only be better when we crank it up on Thursday."
  40. ^ Where TBS deserves plenty of credit is allowing the games to be the star. Unlike Fox, TBS did not bludgeon the audience with an overabundance of crowd shots or fan interviews. Much of the camera work was exceptional. The close-ups of insects feasting on the neck of Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain were so creepy that they could have been filmed by Wes Craven. For the most part, TBS did a nice job of letting the pictures work for them.
  41. ^ Here is my prescription for fixing TBS’s baseball announcing woes. First, don’t let Caray continue to the National League Championship Series. Rush right now and hire the Mets’ SNY voice, Gary Cohen. Two, restore the old practice of adding local announcers from the two teams in a series to add greater knowledge of the players. For the World Series, NBC brought in the Mets’ Lindsey Nelson in 1969, the Tigers’ George Kell in 1968, the Red Sox’ Ned Martin in 1975 and the Reds’ Marty Brennaman in 1976. Three, never load up a crew of National League-related voices, as TBS did with Caray, Tony Gwynn and Bob Brenly, for an American League series. Four, don’t interview Jon Bon Jovi or any other entertainer as pitching change filler as Craig Sager did Monday in the sixth inning. Five, subject all new announcers, like Gwynn, to auditions that require them to tell stories and demonstrate an audible voice.
  42. ^ TBS' game coverage also has been somewhat bumpy. Live action has been missed because of ads or promotions, and during the Yankees series, viewers sometimes were left wondering whether pitchers were warming up in the bullpen. Also during the Yankees series, TBS went to a replay when Joe Torre walked to the mound, leaving us unsure whether he intended to remove his pitcher. TBS' graphic showing the length of a runner's lead off first base is a nifty innovation, but the novelty wears off quickly.
  43. ^ Got to get it right: The graphics might have been good but they weren't always right.

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