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MLB Network To Air Midseason Roundtable Friday

MLB Network will air a special on Friday to discuss the midway point of the 2009 season. MLB Network to Air Midseason Roundtable with Bob Costas, Harold Reynolds, Matt Vasgersian and Tom Verducci on Friday, July 3 at 5:00 p.m. ET Panel to discuss the All-Star Game, Interleague Play, Donald Fehr, small-market teams and the […]

A Friday Megalinks Thing

We’re here with the Friday megalinks and plenty of stuff to go over today. Let’s start it off with the Weekend Viewing Picks. College Basketball is in the midst of some great matchups with conference action, but starting tonight, the mid-major conferences take precedence as the ESPN family of networks will air a total of […]

Quotes from MLB Network Conference Call

Today, the MLB Network held a conference call with reporters involving its new talent and President/CEO Tony Petitti. Here are the highlights. Quotes from MLB Network On-Air Talent Conference Call, 11/12 Tony Petitti, President and Chief Executive Officer, MLB Network On The New Talent:“One of things we’re most excited about here is they all have […]

Two Baseball-Related Press Releases

Since I’m truly in baseball mode, let me give you two baseball-related press releases. The first is from TBS and its plans for the American League Championship Series. TBS Announces MLB ALCS Telecast Team and Schedule Exclusive coverage gets underway on Friday, October 10 TBS announced today the telecast schedule for its exclusive American League […]

Late Friday Night Links

I’ll give you a few late night links before heading to bed. I watched Manny Ramirez’s first at-bat on FSN Prime Ticket and listening to Vin Scully is like enjoying the best red wine out of your cellar. The man is 80 years old and about to turn 81 and he still has it. Let’s […]

Harold Reynolds and Dennis Eckersley to Join TBS MLB All-Star Game Selection Show

Here’s the press release from MLB.com: TBS announces MLB analysts Harold Reynolds and Dennis Eckersley to join MLB All-Star Game Selection Show presented by Chevy 07/01/2008 3:05 PM ET MLB.com TBS announced today the addition of two-time All-Star Harold Reynolds and six-time All-Star and 2004 Hall of Fame inductee Dennis Eckersley to its studio team […]

Sunday Linkage

After running some errands this morning, I’m back and it’s time to give you some links. We start with Richard Sandomir of the New York Times who talks with Harold Reynolds who did a stint with SNY this weekend. And Richard says unlike the Kentucky Derby where he feels NBC Sports dropped the ball in […]

A Megalink Friday

It’s time for the megalinks. Let’s get into them, but first, let’s look at the viewing menu for this weekend. The NFL Draft is the Viewing Pick of the weekend. Both ESPN and the NFL Network will have wall-to-wall coverage of the Draft starting Saturday at 3 p.m. and continuing through Sunday. This year’s draft […]

Time for Your Thursday Links

Time to do the links on this Thursday. Newsday’s Neil Best has breaking news for us. Former ESPN MLB analyst Harold Reynolds has been hired as a part-time studio analyst at SNY. Pete Dougherty of the Albany Times Union says H.R. will continue to be an analyst at MLB.com. Maury Brown of the Biz of […]

Your Mid-Week Links

Let’s do your links for this Wednesday which will probably won’t as busy as yesterday, but let’s see. Starting with USA Today’s Michael Hiestand who talks about the growing popularity of the always lovely Erin Andrews. The next story broke late yesterday. ESPN and former Baseball Tonight analyst Harold Reynolds have settled his wrongful termination […]

ALCS Live on FoxSports.com

Fox Sports.com and MLB.com have teamed up for an online pregame show for the American League Championship Series, just like TBS and MLB have for the past two weeks for the League Division Series and the NLCS. For “ALCS Live”, Fox Sports has tapped Chris Myers to host. The man is a pro having done […]

Late Friday/Early Saturday Links – Thank you, Chris Pursell

You might be wondering why I’m thanking Chris Pursell. He’s the Deputy Editor of TV Week and has just recently started a blog on the sports media. I’ve linked to him since he began his “Pressbox” blog and he has linked to this site in his latest entry defending the right of Tiki Barber to […]

Wednesday Afternoon Updates

Here are a few more links for you before I head home. The Sports Media Watch blog says ESPN will continue to cover David Beckham like a rock star. Heavy hitters Bob Ley (who did play-by-play for the World Cup in the 1980’s for ESPN) and Lisa Salters have been added to Thursday’s LA Galaxy-Chivas […]

HR Talks to Deadspin

To be honest, this was not one of the stories I was following today, but when a guy like Harold Reynolds speaks to Deadspin, I have to provide a link. First off, nice of HR to speak to Editor-in-Chief Will Leitch at the MLB.com offices and second, this shows that HR actually gets the internet: […]

Friday Links

I’ll do as many links as I can this morning. I do have to leave work today so I’ll give you as many as my time permits. First, USA Today, Fox and ESPN are talking with Major League Baseball about expanding their coverage when Barry Bonds gets closer to the all-time home run record. You […]

Wednesday Links

It’s the middle of the week. Let’s take a look at the links today. A couple of stories from Michael Hiestand of USA Today. First, the ratings for the NBA Finals are about to become the lowest ever for the series. With the San Antonio Spurs up 3-0, there’s a sense that the Spurs will […]

Quick Links

I’ll give you a couple of links this morning. Work issues, you know the drill. Anyway, here are a few to tie you over for now. Red Sox fans know that Manny Ramirez is not speaking to the media this season so it came as a surprise when Man-Ram did a video piece with Fang’s […]

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