Should TBS dump Caray, look elsewhere on baseball playoffs?
Not so with TBS lead MLB play-by-play announcer Chip Caray, whose odd calls — and miscalls — drew criticism in past years and are now drawing rapid-fire flak online and on sports talk radio. TBS is in an unusual position. After airing single weekly games during the MLB season, it needs to create new on-air teams for postseason. It draws on various local team announcers — Caray calls Atlanta local TV games for TBS-owned Peachtree TV — which means it could draw on a pretty big candidate pool. Or go, say, with Bob Costas, assuming no conflicts with his NBC or MLB Network deals. Or, TBS could change speeds by swapping in announcers of the teams in its games — letting everybody hear the Dodgers’ Vin Scully. Instead, TBS stands behind Caray — whose late father Skip was a longtime TBS MLB announcer — with rather inexplicable loyalty. MLB ratings mixed: Extra-inning action from big-market teams gave Fox a 6.0 overnight for Yankees-Angels — meaning 6% of TV households in 56 urban markets — and
