Neil Best
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
Everyone who follows baseball and/or the media business naturally has been assuming Turner executives are ecstatic about the ratings gift basket that has been dropped at their door this postseason.
But assuming is a dodgy business, so let's just go ahead and ask Scooter Vertino, Turner Sports' senior vice president of programming, directly whether this is true.
"I can confirm we are ecstatic," he said Friday as TBS got set for an NLCS between the Cubs and Mets that surely will be among the highest-rated of this century, especially if it lasts six or seven games.