Most Yankee games on Yes network in spring training will be called remotely

[Tony-OH]

Just now, Hank Scorpio said:

I mean, just for Spring Training. I would be happy with watching a lot more games without announcers than 4 with play by play. 

I think Geoff Arnold is excellent. McDonald, Arnold, Palmer and Kevin Brown are all very good. Hollander is fine, I feel like he's what I would sound like if I was doing play by play. Can't remove the fan from the dude.... I get that. 

Scott Garceau is a sweetheart of a human being. 

When did this become an option? I think Frobby got on high horse, made up an issue, and now it's being repeated. lol

This is about the teams being cheap and keeping announcers home. We all agree that we'd be ok with more games televised in anyway, including your no announcer way, if it were possible. 

Heck, I'm not even sure how we took a left turn and started talking about announcers. Man, we need something real to talk about! soon! lol

[Hank Scorpio]

6 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Yep, you are rather younger than I am.

You missed out on Chuck, Brooks and Jon Miller and the HTS crews.

Very fondly remember watching those games with my Grandfather.

Tom Davis was the on field reporter. Brooks, Chuck Thompson, Mel Proctor, Lowenstein and various others. It's hard to remember all of the names. 

Honestly what I remember most vividly was Jon Miller & Joe Angel on WBAL, laying in bed and listening to the games on the radio at night. Being SUPER pissed whenever they'd lose.

[Hank Scorpio]

3 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

When did this become an option? I think Frobby got on high horse, made up an issue, and now it's being repeated. lol

This is about the teams being cheap and keeping announcers home. We all agree that we'd be ok with more games televised in anyway, including your no announcer way, if it were possible. 

Heck, I'm not even sure how we took a left turn and started talking about announcers. Man, we need something real to talk about! soon! lol

Yeah I'm starved.

[Going Underground]

The RSN's are in trouble.MLB was discussing an option to take over half of them depending on what happens with Sinclairs subsidiary. They gave too much to teams to get the rights to broadcast the games.The revenue was not as great as they thought. 

[Yardball85]

17 minutes ago, Frobby said:

But he’s probably old enough to remember Mike Flanagan (very good doing color) and Buck Martinez (terrible IMO).   

For some reason, my Flanagan in memoriam and Thorne and Melanie bits were taken out by my editor.  But anyway, I hope the article was enjoyable. 

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Going Underground said:

The RSN's are in trouble.MLB was discussing an option to take over half of them depending on what happens with Sinclairs subsidiary. They gave too much to teams to get the rights to broadcast the games.The revenue was not as great as they thought. 

Arguably, MASN is at an advantage here over non-team owned RSNs, since the rights fees MASN pays are reset every five years and it’s recognized that the fees have to be set at a level that’s expected to earn MASN some level of profit.  Some of these other deals are 20 years long and are based on economic assumptions that turned out to be way off base due to cord-cutting.   Still, it’s not good for any MLB team that customers are cutting their cable cords.

[sevastras]

16 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Yep, you are rather younger than I am.

You missed out on Chuck, Brooks and Jon Miller and the HTS crews.

Jon Miller is one of the all time greats in my opinion. I watch Giants games sometimes and they will bring him in for an inning to call the tv side and I curse the Orioles for ever letting him go.

[Il BuonO]

17 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

You missed out on Chuck, Brooks and Jon Miller and the HTS crews.

Jon Miller is a professional announcer and I may be more partial because he spells his first name correctly, but that’s another story. 

His knowledge of the game and the timbre of his voice make watching the games a joy. Or, I should say, used to. Another fine mess provided by Angelos.

[foxfield]

16 hours ago, Going Underground said:

The RSN's are in trouble.MLB was discussing an option to take over half of them depending on what happens with Sinclairs subsidiary. They gave too much to teams to get the rights to broadcast the games.The revenue was not as great as they thought. 

I think MLB could do a great deal of good for the game to take the broadcasting of MLB games in house for everyone.  It would go a long way to smoothing out the money.  I mean sure YES network rakes in hundred of millions but if they didn't have anyone to play....

This is one thing the NFL has that serves them well.  It also means teams like Kansas City can build a dynasty.  If they were like the NFL, Mahomes would be a Yankee, Met or Dodger.

[glenn__davis]

I can't imagine it was a cost-cutting move from the Yankees.  If it's a drop in the bucket for BAL it's a drop in a 55-gallon drum for NYY.

I'm wondering if maybe their announcers just preferred to stay home?  While a trip to FL sounds cool for most of us, these guys are on the road a lot for 6+months of the year.  

[Hank Scorpio]

Cord cutting crushed Sinclair's long term vision, I guess.

[Going Underground]

Blue Jays during the regular season will rremote broadcast on the radio away games but not TV. Angels might also do this