3GamesToLove

No date for Dick Allen bobblehead day yet hmm

Mike Monaco is in Melbourne now doing some work for ESPN on the Australian Open. He was at Wimbledon last year, too. A natural at any sport he does. A total pro, someone clearly in demand. But we wouldn't want to have hired someone like that, of course.

This is super-weird, dude.

Sports talk radio gonna sports talk radio. Weird as hell for a major league PBP to get sucked into it.

Losing Benetti is a blow here, too.

An absolute unforced error.

Amin won't work as he has most of the same conflicts as Benetti, and I can't see JR/Brooks signing up for that again. Monaco also does national stuff but not as high-profile. He is or has been the alternate/fill-in for NESN. But I bet a full-time gig would entice him. Don't think he'd be a long-term solution, though.

lol "Coach Robert Montgomery Knight"

Regardless, I think watching the Sox will continue to feel like having your bones drunk out of you.

This is not the All-MLB announcement; that happens in December. "While what happens over the next several weeks will go a long way toward determining the 2023 All-MLB Team, it’s worth taking a look at where things stand right now. To that end, a group of MLB.com writers got together to vote on who they think will wind up being named All-MLB at season’s end."

lolno The Packers thing is one of those things that would never happen today and only still exists as a miraculous vestige of an earlier era.

Was absolutely NOT expecting an Andy Lau name drop on SoxTalk today. Bra-fucking-vo.

The hirings of Benetti and Kasper suggest that the team realizes the importance of having a professional broadcaster in the booth after rolling with a "four former players" arrangement for a long time. I'd be pretty surprised if Beckham winds up being a Benetti replacement. Stone replacement is much more likely.

It has new features, including (video!) streaming of minor league games. "MLB Audio is now At Bat -- and has a lot more than just audio For 2023, MLB Audio has a new name: At Bat. Why the new name? Because this subscription also has a lot more to offer than just audio for this coming season. MLB At Bat subscribers can still listen to blackout-free audio broadcasts of all MLB regular-season games -- with their choice of home or away broadcasts and alternative Spanish audio, where available. What’s new for this year is all the video now available as part of this subscription. At Bat subscribers will be able to watch live video of Minor League games in the First Pitch app and the MLB apps -- the same as MLB.TV subscribers. At Bat subscribers will also receive access to subscriber-only content like MLB Big Inning, our daily whiparound show with live look-ins and real-time highlights, as well as access to our library of subscriber-only video on demand originals and documentaries." https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-tv-has-new-feature-in-2023

City Connects would be great, but "Southside" as one word kind of ruins them for me. It's two words!