After enjoying two decades of stability with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan leading the way as ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball crew, the past 11 seasons have basically been a mess for ESPN’s flagship baseball broadcast.
Between the awkward lack of chemistry, loud on-field mics or just Curt Schilling being involved, it’s been difficult to watch baseball on ESPN — you come to expect a poor product. And the 2021 season’s main broadcasting crew of Alex Rodriguez and Matt Vasgersian hasn’t been any better.
Tuesday night’s AL Wild Card game between the Yankees and Red Sox was thankfully the last ESPN MLB game of the season. But for the viewers who didn’t find refuge in ESPN2’s excellent Statcast broadcast, they were subjected to three-plus hours of A-Rod just saying, uh, weird stuff.