This year, though, get ready to listen to baseball on the radio like you never have before. Hopefully after a year of simulcasts, the radio booth at the Rogers Centre will be alive again in 2022, with Wagner and whoever his new partner winds up being, and we will once again have a dedicated radio broadcast of Blue Jays baseball, as we did for the first 44 seasons of the franchise. The Blue Jays : Listen for music from this artist on these POD & Coolstreams Series: Lost Oldies Revival POD > Retro Rock Adventures POD > Alt Aspects POD > Paul Ingles POD Feature programs (Public Radio) >. Hopefully it’s only for one season, as Sportsnet’s release made no mention of this arrangement lasting beyond the 2021 season (it didn’t say that it wouldn’t, though). Ben Wagner remains part of the Blue Jays on Sportsnet broadcast team, joining Jamie Campbell, Joe Siddall, Hazel Mae, and Arash Madani in covering all the bases throughout the season.
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He’s the best possible announcer for the task ahead of him, but, again, it can’t be the same. Blue Jays fans can now enjoy the legendary voices of Buck Martinez, Dan Shulman, and Pat Tabler on both TV and radio.
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Shulman has broadcast the MLB playoffs on ESPN Radio for nearly a quarter-century, including the World Series for a decade. He did 30 games in the booth with me and Wagner in 2018, and provided the two of us with an absolute master class in the craft. That soundtrack is going to be a whole lot different this year with Friday’s announcement from Sportsnet that there will be no dedicated radio broadcast of Blue Jays games, for the first time in the history of the franchise.Īt least those in listen-only mode will get the advantage of Shulman’s extensive radio experience. Only baseball gets to do that, with the slow and steady pace that allows broadcasters the time to really set the scene, get deep into all the nooks and crannies and allow each game to take them back into history in ways they never might have expected.īaseball is the soundtrack of summer, and with all due respect to some fantastic television broadcasters, it’s not because people haul the TV out to the patio while they mow the lawn or barbecue or lounge in the pool. The listener was brought right to the ballpark through the radio. I fell in love with the game listening to Tom Cheek, first with Early Wynn and then Jerry Howarth in a partnership that would last nearly 2 1/2 decades, painting pictures with his words.
For an insatiable pre-teen baseball fan, the only place to get a regular fix was on the radio. There was a Saturday game of the week broadcast by NBC, which we picked up in Toronto through the Buffalo affiliate (Channel 2), but that was it. When I was growing up, Blue Jays games were only televised on Wednesday nights and Sunday afternoons. I can’t tell you how much I love baseball on the radio, but I’ll try.
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