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Red Sox/Yankees Second Largest Sunday Night Baseball Rating Of Season

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Red Sox/Yankees Second Largest Sunday Night Baseball Rating Of Season

Sunday’s edition of Sunday Night Baseball between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees on ESPN saw its second largest audience of the season.

Viewership peaked at 2.7 million between 7:45 PM-8:00 PM while Aaron Judge was at bat. Judge is chasing the American League and franchise record for single season home runs. He currently sits at 60 while the record is 61.

Sunday’s audience was up 47% from a comparable Red Sox and Yankees broadcast a year ago. The game averaged 2.2 million viewers, second only to a game played by the same two franchises in April this year, which saw an average of 2.487 million.

ESPN2’s KayRod Cast saw 243,000 viewers on average. That number is the third largest for the season.

ESPN’s season finale of Sunday Night Baseball will be this Sunday as the Mets face the Braves.

Dan Le Batard: I Don’t Need Colleagues To Clean Up Home Run Record

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Some people in the sports media are trying to rewrite baseball history. Plenty have argued that if and when Aaron Judge hits his 62nd home run, he should be recognized as the single season home run champ in Major League Baseball history. It is a point of view Dan Le Batard had no trouble dismissing on Tuesday’s episode of The Dan Patrick Show.

Le Batard, who was dressed as the Mad Hatter for a bit on his own show later in the day, told Patrick that he didn’t need his colleagues that are more nostalgic and romantic for Major League Baseball to try and convince him of what is and isn’t legit.

“For their time, the best player I ever saw was Barry Bonds and I don’t need you to clean that up for me with some of the mythologies of how competitive people might cheat in the margins because they are super competitive about being competitive.”

Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001. Many assume that was achieved with the help of performance-enhancing drugs.

Dan Le Batard is not so precious about how the record was achieved. He acknowledges that PED use is cheating, but doesn’t dismiss the accomplishments they lead to.

“It’s not that I don’t have a problem with it,” he said. “It’s that I lost my Hall of Fame vote because we were arguing the merits of whether these guys would go through the pharmacy to be competitive when McGwire and Sosa stole the sport from Bonds when they were cheating. He started cheating too and he was better than them when he was cheating. He was better than them when he wasn’t cheating. He was better than anybody I’ve ever seen, Aaron Judge included.”

He zeroed in on the treatment of Bonds specifically, revealing that when he was guest hosting Pardon The Interruption once, ESPN brass was unhappy that he asked why the network was comfortable burying Bonds based on circumstantial evidence, but let Lance Armstrong, who he said had “all this circumstantial evidence and a little more proof,” host the ESPY Awards.

The use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs bothers plenty of media members. Dan Le Batard is not one of them. In fact, he wonders why anyone would assume that steroids completely disappeared from American sports after Major League Baseball began testing for them.

“It’s funny to me that we don’t ask any questions of Pujols or Brady or any of these guys or women in their 40s where it’s like ‘how have we cheated science so much that these people have perfected a way to age with grace in sports in a way we wish we all could?’.”

Buster Olney Bristles At NJ.com Report ESPN Asked MLB To Continue Yankees Rain Delay

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Plenty of media coverage has surrounded New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge’s chase for the single-season franchise and American League home run record. Sunday’s game against the Red Sox entered a lengthy rain delay during Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, which Buster Olney said ESPN had no part in the delay lasting longer than it should have.

A report by Brendan Kuty of NJ.com claims ESPN pressured MLB to keep the game in a rain delay to give him the chance to hit his 61st homer on their network. Kuty reported “Throughout the delay, the Yankees and the Red Sox each lobbied the league to declare the game over as the forecast kept getting worse, the person said. But ESPN kept the pressure on.”

ESPN MLB Reporter Buster Olney pushed back on the claim.

Olney flat out denied the accusation, saying “it’s simply not true” to one user before another user claimed it was Olney’s word against Kuty’s. Olney then set the record straight.

Kuty’s report claims the rain delay only ended when Yankees manager Aaron Boone threatened to pull Judge from the game during the rain delay. When the threat of Judge being removed from the game reached MLB and ESPN authorities, according to Kuty, did the one hour and 38 minute delay end and the game was called.

Gregg Giannotti: Eli Manning Has ‘Completely Changed’ His Personality

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Monday Night Football With Peyton & Eli, mostly known as the Manningcast, has proved to be a popular alternate broadcast, and WFAN morning host Gregg Giannotti pointed out how much he has enjoyed seeing Eli Manning’s personality come out more and more during the broadcast.

“Eli Manning doesn’t say a lot so when he says something mildly controversial, everyone’s gonna jump on it,” Giannotti said. “He took a shot at Russell Wilson last night. Did you hear about this? Eli Manning taking shots!”

“Welcome to the dark side, Eli. It feels good to have an opinion,” co-host Boomer Esiason said.

“Talking about the 11-10 game on Sunday night and Eli said they should probably give the punter $250 million instead of Russell Wilson,” Giannotti said.

“I mean, Eli’s had a few games like that,” Esiason countered.

“But still, I thought that was great,” Giannotti admitted. “Eli coming out firing! You don’t normally get that from him! Ever since that Chad Powers bit this guy has completely changed his entire personality.”

Giannotti then admitted he didn’t watch Monday Night Football With Peyton & Eli last night, due to it interfering with his job.

“I have not watched the Manningcast yet this year,” Giannotti said. “I think because it’s distracting for me now. I checked it out a couple of times last year later in the season and I enjoyed it. It was fine. But if I’m trying to watch a Giant game because we’re gonna talk about it the next day, I can’t have six Zoom interviews on the Manningcast. It’s impossible.”

Giannotti is on record saying the Manningcast needs to eliminate guests. He said the guests were a “big problem” adding “They put them on those Zooms and the connection is always terrible and they are talking over each other and there is a delay.”

Charlie Kirk: Media Only ‘Loves Democracy’ When Liberals Win

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Many news organizations have reported that Giorgia Meloni has won the Prime Minister role of the Italian government. Many have also pointed out Meloni’s far-right views, some going as far to call her a “neo-fascist”. Conservative radio host Charlie Kirk used this as a “case-in-point” argument that the media doesn’t love democracy as much as it claims.

Kirk said Meloni “runs a party that is now being smeared and maligned by the entire Western press as fascist and right-wing. In fact, front page of The Wall Street Journal, ‘Italy’s Right-Wing Coalition On Track to Win Election’. Front page of The Wall Street Journal. Many people in the media are comparing her to Benito Mussolini.

“They say ‘This is Mussolini’s party’, which I always find hilarious because the left and the media, they’re such big fans of democracy — whatever that word means, totally misrepresented, we’re a republic not a democracy — but Italy is truly much more a democracy than we are. They’re big fans of democracy until the people elect a right-wing government. ‘They’re fascists! We have to shut them down!’. They’re not actually fans of consent to the governed or representative government. No, instead, they’re fans of top-down control and totalitarianism, and despotism, and the shrinking of the voice of the commoner and the everyday man.”

He then continued by pointing out the media is unintentionally pushing citizens to the “Parents Party”, a political movement which is “sweeping the globe”, that allows “the everyman to take on the global elites”.

Nick Kayal: Chris Cuomo ‘Looks Like A Stooge’ For CNN Comments

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Nick Kayal is preparing to take over mornings from Rich Zeoli on 1210 WPHT next week, and joined the current morning show to discuss a variety of topics, including the shift by CNN to return to its roots as a strictly news reporting agency. Kayal and Zeoli reminisced about CNN’s former place in the cable news landscape before commenting on its current state.

“You’ve got CNN trying to go centrists and it’s kinda funny to me because CNN’s glory days, Nick Kayal, were when you had missing planes and storms. And Wolf Blitzer’s beard. Those were the glory days of CNN.”

“And the O.J. (Simpson) car chase,” Kayal responded. “Which I watched vehemently when I was 10 years old.”

“Who didn’t? The best would have been O.J. car chasing into a tornado while a plane went missing. And Wolf Blitzer reporting on it with his beard from the situation room” Zeoli joked. “CNN went too far left, were MSNBC light, and it was a disaster for them. (CNN+) lasted — I think — two weeks, and now they’re going centrists, but you’re saying (Chris) Cuomo is saying that’s a mistake.”

“You’re always going to question the strategy of the place you used to work at, but if you CNN is really going to to try to report the news and be objective, you’re foolish. I’ve got a plot of land to sell you down the street. But if they are truly going there, Cuomo looks like a stooge. But if you believe CNN is gonna try to go down the middle, I don’t buy it one bit.”

On the debut podcast of On with Kara Swisher published Monday, Cuomo said CNN was making a mistake by returning to its news reporting roots.

“I don’t like the idea that they’re saying they’re going to be more middle ground,” Cuomo said. “I think a lot of people in the media like to see CNN go down because it was so powerful. And they tried to make that happen because I believe that that’s what our business is often about, is tearing things down as a negativity as a proxy for insight, but I don’t believe in middle ground.”

Andrew Fillipponi: Jim Nantz and Tony Romo Should Have Been at Bills/Dolphins

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Many pundits questioned why CBS sent their top NFL broadcast crew of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo to the Colts versus Chiefs matchup Sunday, while the Bills and Dolphins faced off in a game featuring two undefeated teams. 93.7 The Fan host Andrew Fillipponi had the same question and asked CBS sideline reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala how they decide who goes where.

“It was obvious to everybody that Bills and Dolphins was the game of the week yesterday and yet Tony Romo and Jim Nantz were in Indianapolis,” Fillipponi said. “You now work for CBS. Can you tell us how that happens? Why didn’t CBS send their best announcers to the best game yesterday, Aditi?”

“These things are decided several weeks in advance,” Kinkhabwala revealed. “They’re decided two or three weeks in advance, and sometimes what you think is something obviously does not turn out to be that way. For instance, this coming week, the ‘A’ crew — the Jim Nantz, Tony Romo, and Tracy Wolfson crew — are going to Green Bay. Now, part of that is because Green Bay is an NFC team and there’s not always an opportunity for CBS to get Green Bay. It’s a national window, 4:00 PM game, it’ll go to the entire country –“

“And it’s Brian Hoyer for the Patriots!”, Fillipponi interrupted.

“Exactly. My game, which is actually the fifth or sixth game, I think is arguably one of the two best games. Jaguars at Eagles. You’ve got Doug Pederson going back to Philly. Philly is one of the only 3-0 teams. The Jags have won two straight. They’re looking really good. They have a ton of talent on defense.”

According to Richard Deitsch of The Athletic, CBS told their broadcast teams in August where their assignments would be for the first three weeks of the NFL season and didn’t want to shift announcers around this early in the season.

Omaha Productions Shaping New Pro Bowl Week Format

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Omaha Productions Shaping New Pro Bowl Week Format

The NFL’s Pro Bowl will undergo many changes for the 2023 edition, and Peyton Manning-owned Omaha Productions will be behind the differences.

A flag-football game will replace the traditional Pro Bowl on Sunday, February 5th, but a week of skills competitions as well as non-football skills will be on display.

Omaha Productions will work directly with ESPN and the league for content and ideas to shape the week for players, fans, and corporate sponsors of the NFL.

“We’ve received invaluable feedback from players, teams and fans about reimagining the Pro Bowl, and as a result, we’re thrilled to use The Pro Bowl Games as a platform to spotlight Flag football as an integral part of the sport’s future while also introducing fun, new forms of competition and entertainment that will bring our players, their families and fans closer than ever before,” said NFL Executive Vice President, Club Business and League Events Peter O’Reilly.

Todd Starnes: Media Has Ignored Killing of North Dakota Teen

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Conservative radio host Todd Starnes said there’s a noticeable gap in media coverage of a story that involves the killing of a North Dakota teen. 

Starnes made the comments on his “ToddCast Podcast” Monday.

According to News Channel 9, Shannon Brandt killed Cayler Ellingson in a hit-and-run after they had a political argument.

“Where has the media coverage been on this?” Starnes said. “It’s almost as if this crime never happened. We all know that the mainstream media is biased, we all know that the fix is in.” 

Starnes said this story should be used as an opportunity to bring the political temperature down a few notches. 

Brandt told officers he had a political argument with the 18-year-old and felt threatened because he believed the teen was calling people to come get him.

Starnes blamed President Joe Biden for inciting his base, adding that he’s been “ratcheting up the rhetoric since this kid was killed.” 

“Not a single national news reporter had the courage or the moral fortitude to actually ask the Biden administration whether or not they regret or retract the language they are using.” 

Starnes did credit Fox News for bringing up the subject during one of its morning news programs. 

Jimmy Failla: Jen Psaki Left Biden Administration at Right Time

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Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla said Monday that former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was smart to leave the Biden administration when she did. 

Failla credited Psaki for her comments on “Meet the Press” Sunday in which she stated that if the upcoming midterms are a referendum on the president, the Democrats will lose. 

“People are sick of the extreme talk,” Failla said. “They (Democrats) have mismanaged the country to the moon and back and Psaki is straight up admitting it.” 

Psaki, a contributor at MSNBC, also said that crime is a big vulnerability for Democrats. 

“Psaki could’ve been the White House Press Secretary for two years or four years, think about it. When you look at Karine Jean Pierre, Jen Psaki wasn’t forced out by a better backup,” Failla said. 

Psaki served as Joe Biden’s White House Press Secretary between 2021 and 2022. 

Failla said Psaki has found a “safe landing space over at MSNBC.” 

“At the time I said she was leaving because she knows it sucks,” he added. “She (Psaki) knows nobody in positions of media prominence is going to have anything to do with this administration.”  

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