Sunday Night Baseball

But anyway, um, I was so close for some reasons that I've been wearing my Colt 45 Joe Morgan Jersey and I didn't end up wearing my band t-shirt, but I literally, I love that era.

And especially for whatever, Joe Morgan is like that voice to me of Sunday night baseball.

Like, I grew up, that was like the best.

Baseball Tonight and then Sunday Night Baseball with Joe Morgan and I should know his co-host.

John Miller.

Thank you, John Miller.

One of my cool things, Tim Kirchner and I talk about this all the time, in our years at ESPN, you get to sit down and hang out with a manager who's run a game, and you listen to a Buck Showalter, a Dusty Baker, a Bobby Valentine, sort of talk through what the mental process is.

Terry Francona I worked with for a year on Sunday Night Baseball, and they have experiences, really plays for them in games.

He doesn't have that.

And, you know, that's going to be stuff that he's going to have to learn on the fly.

Pan Summerall and John Madden, my personal favorite, they were together 21 years.

John Miller, Joe Morgan, the legendary duo on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, which has now been replaced with the toxic turd known as Women's Sports Sundays...

John Miller and Joe Morgan, they were together for 19 years.

Mike Breen, Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy, 15 years.

Viewership up.

NBC delivered the biggest audience for Sunday Night Baseball since 2007.

Fox saw a 15% year-over-year audience gain.

Sponsor United estimates Major League Baseball team sponsorship totaled $2.1 billion in 2026.

It didn't keep people from watching it.

Now, the reality is, old school Sunday night baseball, who was the best? John Miller was the best, and so was Joe Morgan.

That's one of the best baseball broadcasts in history.

Old school Sunday night baseball.

Those guys were great broadcasters.

But broadcast, I'm going to do this again, broadcasters used to be better than they are now.

There were fewer of them, and to have these jobs meant something.

There weren't as many games being broadcast, so it mattered more.

I keep saying, people, what is this bullshit? The Saturday game is on SNY.

Sunday will be on Sunday Night Baseball.

Now, folks, when we return on the update this Friday, we're going to talk about what happened on this day in history.

And then we're going to talk the latest national news, including out in the American West in Los Angeles.

I'm not even sure what firejoemorgan.com is.

Well, they basically wanted Joe Morgan off of Sunday Night Baseball.

That's crazy.

John Miller and Joe Morgan were great.

let's go to Chad he writes and this is this is something you have experience and he's wants to know wondering if you guys could shed some light on in-game interviews they mandated by TV contracts who is it up to that you guys interview seems like the last thing these guys want to do but obviously spectators love it could you shed a little light on that

So I think that I was part of the first one back in 2011, my first night on Sunday Night Baseball.

You know, they decided to do that with managers.

I might be wrong about that, but I think that was the case.