I think it's disgusting that they are allowing unvaccinated players into Canada. You make hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars a year, you can effen well get vaccinated. Again, it's all about money, and with that in mind, don't expect Rogers to bring back radio play by play.

RadioActive wrote:

This also destroys their excuse that they "didn't want the radio crews travelling because of COVID." If the team can come home, seems to me there's no longer any reason they can't have a radio crew with them or on the road. 

The reason they don't have a radio crew is plain and simple - money.

It wouldn't surprise me if more major teams followed suit.

Once the hubbub dies down, fans will just accept it and the job of baseball radio announcer will have the same quaint connotation as blacksmith and typewriter repairman.
 

Dale Patterson wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

This also destroys their excuse that they "didn't want the radio crews travelling because of COVID." If the team can come home, seems to me there's no longer any reason they can't have a radio crew with them or on the road. 

The reason they don't have a radio crew is plain and simple - money.

It wouldn't surprise me if more major teams followed suit.

Once the hubbub dies down, fans will just accept it and the job of baseball radio announcer will have the same quaint connotation as blacksmith and typewriter repairman.
 

I agree. Games called specifically for radio a obviously better, but have become largely unnecessary. 

It hasn't been *that* long that every game has been on TV, and, more recently, streaming - taking away radio's portability advantage. Radio is a backup at this point.

However, I think it would still be advantageous to call the games while keeping those not watching or not watching closely in mind. For example, I like to have the games on while doing other things around the house. I'm not sure there's any negative to this approach?
 

I'm sure more teams will have a similar arrangement in place as the years progress, but let's not forget that most teams are not owned by their broadcaster. Furthermore, a team's radio & TV broadcasters aren't always owned by the same company. It would be like if Loblaws owned the Blue Jays, SportsNet had the TV rights, but TSN had the radio rights.. what would happen then? Sure TSN and SportsNet could strike (no pun intended) a deal, but then radio listeners would hear TV branding. I think the Blue Jays will stick with this approach unless they're sold to become part of MLSE. 

Tomas Barlow wrote:

geo wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

      Once the hubbub dies down, fans will just accept it and the job of baseball radio announcer will have the same quaint connotation as blacksmith and typewriter repairman 

Other than for vision-impaired (blind) baseball fans, its hard to imagine why this is an issue.     

geo

P.S. - double-header at 1:00 today 
 

You obviously haven’t listened. Close your eyes for an inning while watching and try to keep track of balls and strikes to understand the radio experience. They aren’t providing the information required to know what is going on. If they were, it would be a non-issue.

Close my eyes for an inning and risk missing Vlad Guerrero Jr. at the plate, are you nutz?

geo
 

Tomas Barlow wrote:

I listened to the first three innings and counted 5 times where Pat Tabler talked about something on the screen and Dan Shulman did it once.  Three different times the ball hit the glove with no indication of whether the pitch was a ball or a strike.  It's impossible to follow the game on radio.

EXACTLY!