The Peacock streaming channel is owned by NBC Universal/Comcast. NBC has decades of experience televising baseball and other sports. They used a well-respected play-by-play announcer, Jason Benetti, and had one other booth announcer tied to each team, John Kruk (Phillies) and Ryan Sweeney (Cubs), though Sweeney’s connection with the Cubs is somewhat more tenuous than Kruk’s with Philadelphia.
So I thought I might see a more professionally produced sports broadcast Sunday morning.
Unfortunately, I was wrong. NBC and Peacock have apparently decided, as have some other national baseball broadcast outlets, that the broadcast needs to be stuffed with irrelevant chatter and stuff we really don’t need.