For those who still don’t accept Len Kasper’s rationale for leaving Cubs TV for White Sox radio nearly two years ago, consider what happened in baseball broadcasting last week.
With Yankees slugger Aaron Judge in pursuit of the American League home-run record, national TV outlets carried three of the Yankees’ four games against the Red Sox. Fox aired the game Thursday, Apple TV+ had the game Friday and ESPN picked up the game Sunday. That left one game for the Yankees’ local outlet, their own YES Network.
Judge hit his 60th homer of the season Tuesday of that week, and Yankees fans feared the worst: Heaven forbid, Judge would tie or break the record without Yankees voice Michael Kay on the call.