Cubs Road Games Might Sound Different if Baseball is Played in 2020
Bruce Levine is reporting that all MLB broadcasters have been told they will broadcast all road games from a “home studio” and not travel with their teams.
All MLB announcers( TV and radio) have been told they will be doing all 2020 road games from a local broadcast studio or home ballpark with monitors as their guide.
— Bruce Levine (@MLBBruceLevine) June 4, 2020
This is actually how games used to be broadcasted on the radio. The play-by-play man would sit in a local radio broadcast station and they would receive the game via telegraph wire. This is how Ronald Reagan would call Chicago Cubs games back in the day. He would then make the call to the listeners of WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.
He would infamously tell the story on how he would often have to make things up when there was a long delay in the wire. Sometimes batters would foul off 10 pitches before the wire would come through, suggesting the batter was out several pitches beforehand.
It won’t be the same type of guessing game for Len Kasper and other play-by-play folks throughout the country. With technological advances, they will see what is happening through their monitors – but there will be longer delays than normal. You may even feel some of those delays while watching.
With the monitor coming in on a delay, and Kasper calling the game off of the delayed feed, and then Marquee Sports sending that call out, you may feel a little of the delay in the broadcast. But, I am sure we can ignore some of that if we are actually watching baseball.
