Relationships between baseball announcers and audiences tend to be deep, and tend to be long.
The Tigers and Fox Sports Detroit understand this is business. They know also it’s personal.
They will be careful in naming replacements for Mario Impemba and Rod Allen, whose strained moments and tensions that spanned too many years ignited in a final flare-up Sept. 4 at Chicago that has ended each broadcaster’s tenure in Detroit.
The parties also might have learned a lesson. Rather than tell two broadcasters to “work out” their problems when those issues were about as likely to be unified as oil and water, it might be wise this time around to assure that two parties can indeed work as partners.