Bob Carpenter often sits in the stands with his wife during the Nationals playoff games. Michael Kay is sometimes quietly crammed between the Yankees radio team of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. Todd Kalas is watching the Astros take on the Yankees from his couch.
The television voices behind the three remaining teams in the MLB postseason are benched after calling the better part of a grueling 162-game regular-season schedule. They know this beforehand, they accept it, but it does not make it any less awkward when their respective teams are playing the most important games of the season and they are not the ones narrating it.