Just a quick reminder, the Yankees will be playing the Red Sox tonight (at 7:05). Newly-turned 20 year-old Manny Banuelos will be taking the hill for the Yankees against the Sox, who are playing most of their starters. It should be fun to see how Manny handles his toughest test yet. I will be in and out all night, but feel free to leave your comments/thoughts about the outing here.
Update: the game was supposed to be on ESPN2, but for some reason it doesn’t seem to be on. You can get it on mlb.tv or NESN, if you are unfortunate enough to be living in Red Sox country like I am.
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9 Responses to Watch Manny Banuelos face off against the Red Sox tonight (not on ESPN2)
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I could kill somebody right now. Looking forward to this all day. Get home, its blacked out. Douchebag Marchand tweets that its on ESPNNY.com. I go there, spend 15 minutes signing up for their shit webiste, and . . . . its still blacked out.
Did I mention I could could kill someone right about now?
Yeah, its embarrassing. Ridiculous that it is blacked out locally when not available locally.
According to Marchand, YES wouldn’t release the rights. He works for ESPN, so I wouldn’t expect him to say anything else, but it does ring true.
He’s actually a good reporter, and was just trying to help. I was just beside myself about 15 minutes ago.
ESPN2 used both of Betances’ innings to talk about nothing but the Red Sox, during his first inning of work they had the Sox President in the booth and they talked about the Sox, in Betances’ second inning of work they had the head guy for ESPN Boston in the booth, guess the convo?
You think they would hide some degree of their Red Sox bias.
Honestly, I didn’t see any bias, I thought the guys in the booth were very good and very fair. They also had Cashman and Marchand in at one point, and seemed to be alternating with that stuff. They were very complimentary about Banuelos later, and were skeptical about Boston’s pitching staff.
I find the placement funny if nothing else, that network gets no leeway with doing someone accidental, they slight the Yankees too often to take anything other than that way.
I couldn’t watch the game any later than Betances’ second inning (in the 7th or so) so I guess Cashman was on after that when the prospects weren’t pitching and only those with no chance of the team were in, seems like it would make more sense to have Cashman on when Betances was pitching and not talk over him with Red Sox talk.
I’d guess, but cant be certain, that the Sox went first because they are the home team. But I agree that it could have been better synchronized.
Condolences on being stuck in the middle of Fraud Sawx Nation, Eric.
I would never wish that kind of torture on anybody.
I gotta disagree. nothing bothers me more than people who miss a story. no mention of hte fact that Banuelos and Aceves were signed in the same group. almost no discussion of Banuelos as a prospect (basically Iglesia who was not playing got as much discussion) basically no discussion of Bettances.
Also Banuelos is not pronounced (Ban-Yoo-Way-Los)
its obviously(Ban-way-los). If yourjob is to talk, take the time to learn how to say a spanish name.
sorry. this is a terrible booth. Hershiser is cliche and insanely boring, the play by play is awful. I actually like Bobby V because I don’t know everything he is going to say.
ESPN is at the pinnacle of sports how is it possible that they could so repeatedly fail in picking announcers for everysport aside from College football.
Hate it.
Also the guests. ENOUGH. I don’t want to hear cliche’s spewed ad nauseum. Manager interviews, GM interviews, player interviews. Leave those to the writers who may actually ask pertinent questions. In game interviews drive me nuts. there is always plenty enough going on without having to jarringly interupt the game with these interviews.