2007 postseason schedule -- now with NOVEMBER!

Probably Chip Caray and Joe Simpson. They're under contract with TBS, whereas Skip and Pete are employed directly by the Braves.

uggghghghghghghghhghgghghghghghghhhhhhh. i wish playoff games could be covered by local affiliates.

I swear I thought Karl Ravech was making this up:

AL's top team to pick first-round format

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/playoffs/2007-09-11-Options_N.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2007-09-21-hiestand-weekend_N.htm

TBS' expansion draft is over.

Having not shown any Major League Baseball postseason action, TBS now has all first-round MLB playoff games and the National League Championship Series.

That meant it needed to build on-air rosters. Turner Sports President David Levy says finding prospects wasn't a problem: "The big surprise, as we become the home of postseason baseball, was that there was a lot of interest in these jobs." (Apparently, one's "home" is a matter of interpretation. Fox will air the ALCS and the World Series.)

Friday, Levy says, TBS will announce that its game analysts will include Steve Stone, who has worked at WGN and ESPN and won the 1980 AL Cy Young Award, and Bob Brenly, at WGN after calling games for Fox in 2004 and managing the Arizona Diamondbacks to a World Series win in 2001. They'll join previously announced Joe Simpson, a longtime TBS Atlanta Braves analyst, and Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn.

Also joining: Play-by-play announcers Ted Robinson, an ex-San Francisco Giants and New York Mets announcer, Don Orsillo, who calls Boston Red Sox telecasts, and Dick Stockton, who calls NFL games for Fox and NBA games for TNT. They join Chip Caray, who'll work with Gwynn, the only pairing TBS has revealed.

radio on.

UH

morbs channeling jonathan richman

He should do the TBS games, at least the Sox'.

Alan Vega (with lots of reverb)

Jonny Papelbon gonna throw that ball, mmhmm.

Martin Rev: potentially awesome ballpark organist.

Yanks’ Games Won’t Start in Prime Time
By RICHARD SANDOMIR

The Yankees will start each of their American League division series games against Cleveland from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., beginning with Thursday night’s 6:30 broadcast of Game 1 from Jacobs Field.

Game 2 will start at 5 p.m. Friday; Game 3 is Sunday at 6:30 p.m. If necessary, Game 4 will be at 6 p.m. Monday, and Game 5 at 5 p.m. next Wednesday.

The other three series begin tomorrow, with Colorado opening at Philadelphia at 3 p.m., followed by the Angels-Red Sox at 6:30 p.m. and the Cubs-Diamondbacks at 10 p.m. The first pitch in every game of each series is scheduled for seven minutes after the hour or half-hour.

TBS will broadcast each division series game this season, taking over for ESPN and Fox, except for Game 4, if necessary, of the Diamondbacks-Cubs series. TNT will show that game at 1 p.m. Sunday. If one TBS game spills into another, TBS will stay with the first game; the next one will start on TNT before shifting to TBS when the earlier game concludes. Each day’s schedule will be preceded by a 30-minute pregame show.

The scheduling of the games guarantees that the 6:30 p.m. start of the Indians-Yankees game on Sunday will not compete for New Yorkers’ attention with the 1 p.m. broadcast of the Jets-Giants game on CBS. Also, the 1 p.m. Diamondbacks-Cubs game will have a head start of 7 hours 15 minutes on the Bears-Packers game on NBC.

The Yankees series will be called by Chip Caray, Tony Gwynn and Bob Brenly, and the Cubs-Diamondbacks series will be announced by Dick Stockton and Ron Darling, the Mets’ SNY analyst, who was added yesterday to the broadcast team.

Copyright 2007 The New York Times

Matt (Cambridge): Gary: Any thoughts on the scheduling for this postseason? Seems like an awful lot of off days to me.

Gary Huckabay: I hate the scheduling. I'd like to see all the games packed into no off days, and maybe even a doubleheader. I want depth to be tested. That's a personal preference, but I like the idea of a Storm Davis/Jose Lima matchup in the postseason, with Travis Hafner coming to the plate hooked up to a dialysis machine and using anodyne therapy. I like the idea of a swingman mattering beyond innings filler duty.

Not even travel days. Considering the number of 8AM meetings I've had on the East Coast after arriving at Kennedy at 2AM or something, I'd like to see some serious dark circles under postseason eyes.