Phillies fans can expect to be able to hear the familiar voice of a Phillies fan calling the wild-card series that is scheduled to begin with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The former Yankees player Alex Rodriguez will be in the booth to announce”The Best of 3″ series, on ESPN that will begin on the following day. Rodriguez joins Michael Kay, the television voice of the Yankees on the Yes Network and a New York City sportscaster at 98.7 ESPN New York. Alden Gonzalez will join the show on Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis.
Rodriguez was signed to ESPN in the year 2018 as part of a three-person booth for Sunday Night Baseball that also included Matt Vasgersian and Jessica Mendoza who departed at the end of two seasons. Vasgersian and Rodriguez collaborated throughout the 2021 season and were replaced in the 2018 season by current Sunday Night Baseballcrew consisting of Karl Ravech, David Cone, Eduardo Perez.
According to his own admission, Rodriguez started off slow in the booth and admitted that to The Inquirer in 2018, “I’ll be the first to say I’m not a good caller.” He was not assisted by the decision of ESPN of making the broadcast focused on Rodriguez, but he improved when he was able to call more games.
Rodriguez is also not unwilling to voice his opinions, as he did when he decried the “careless management” of the former Phillies manager Gabe Kapler while calling the 2019 game. The game, at least, is scheduled to be by the team from St. Louis, so Rodriguez won’t be forced to talk about his most-loved Philly ” cheese sandwich.”
The current year, Rodriguez along with Kay have hosted an alternate Sunday Night Baseballbroadcast on ESPN2 named”the KayRodcast similar to Peyton as well as Eli Manning’s alternative Monday Night Football broadcast. It’s not”Manningcast” or “Manningcast,” since KayRod is not made with the help of Omaha Productions.
Although there will be no Phillies postseason games are scheduled to be broadcast through NBC Sports Philadelphia, 94.1 WIP will continue to air games throughout the playoffs. NBC Sports Philadelphia will continue to offer Phillies post-game and pre-game coverage, with Michael Barkann. However, the schedule could be difficult on Sunday, if each of the Phillies and Eagles play.
Here’s the remainder of ESPN’s announcers for the wild-card portion of the MLB playoffs:
- San Diego Padres at New York Mets: Karl Ravech, David Cone, Eduardo Perez, Buster Olney
- Tampa Bay Rays at Cleveland Guardians:Jon “Boog” Sciambi, Doug Glanville, Jesse Rogers
- Seattle Mariners at Toronto Blue Jays: David Flemming, Jessica Mendoza, Tim Kurkjian, Coley Harvey
The NBA will appear like and sound differently on ESPN this season.
The NBA on ESPN will sport new graphics and sound this season.
ESPN is set to reveal its new look on Thursday , during a preseason doubleheaderthat will include an updated scorebug that is smaller, smaller graphics, and a brand-new theme song.
ESPN’s older graphics software was first released in the year 2016. The theme song of the old days -the song Fastbreak by Nonstop Music— was first played on ABC before making it to ESPN within a couple of years.
Why would you want to change the way you do it today? ESPN stated that they were looking for an appropriate theme song “that will reflect the enthusiasm of the upcoming stars in the NBA.” Therefore, they collaborated together with Made Music Studio in New York City to develop “a hip-hop-inspired idea” which they could utilize across all of its basketball events which includes those of the WNBA as well as the G-League.
The Sixers are scheduled to play at ESPN 10 times throughout the season, however every single one of the match-ups (Dec. 16 against Golden State Warriors) will also be broadcast in NBC Sports Philadelphia. Sixers games will be telecast only on ABC at least three times. That includes a Friday-Saturday evening game with the Boston Celtics on Feb. 25.
ESPN has not yet revealed its NBA teams however, you can count on Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy as well as Mark Jackson to return as the broadcast team’s top players and including King of Prussia native Lisa Salters as the primary courtside reporter. Fans can also expect to get to hear more about Former Sixers shooting coach J.J. Redick, who will be calling minimum 25 of the games under the expanded NBA role according to sources from the network.
Quick hits
- In the wake of the decision by NBC Sports Philadelphia to extend the contract of Sixers Outsiders, former co-host Krystle Rich-Bell will be heading in Los Angeles as a sports anchor and reporter to KTLA 5.
- The former Phillies general manager, now NBC Sports Philadelphia announcer Ruben Amaro Jr. is currently in Houston broadcasting the Astros series. He was still somewhat exuberant regarding Aaron Nola’s performances.
- Audacy is who owns 94.1 WIP is looking into the possibility of selling their podcasting studio Cadence13 to lower debts in the wake of financial difficulties, according to Axios. Audacy’s stock closed at 44 cents on Tuesday and fell to an all-time low the following day at 39 cents.
- Full-time WIP host Devan Kaney landed another new job. Kaney, who was the ex- Philadelphia Wings sideline reporter is joining the Flyers as the team’s new in-arena host for the coming season. She’ll share the duties of Andrea Helfrich. Kaney hosts the JAKIB Media’s Eagles postgame show along with Mike Missanelli, Derrick Gunn along with Seth Joyner.
- Paramount+ has finally added the ability to pause and rewind the live UEFA Champions League games.
- Yankees Slugger Aaron Judge hit his 62nd home run on Tuesday night, and the coveted baseball was spotted by a man identified as Corey Youmans. He’s engaged to Bri Amaranthus, who is a participant on season 22 on the show The Bachelorand an editor covering both the Dallas Cowboys and Mavericks for Sports Illustrated’s FanNation.