Fox Sports Detroit announcers Rod Allen and Mario Impemba will not return to Detroit Tigers broadcasts in 2019, according to a report from Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press. Allen and Impemba were suspended by the network for the remainder of the 2018 season after an incident between the two at the ballpark on September 4.
The decision is unsurprising given the immediate fallout of their altercation, but it brings an end to one of the longest running broadcast tandems in baseball. Impemba has been the Tigers’ primary play-by-play announcer since 2002, and Allen came onto the scene in 2003.