Tag: Team USA

"Baseball is exceedingly popular. People love the game of baseball. You just got to figure out the best way to give it to them."

"Baseball is still asking you to commit to a six-month relationship and promising it will get good later. That’s a tougher sell than it used to be in today’s microwave media landscape."

"FOX reported an average audience of 10,228,000 viewers for the game itself, with peak viewership climbing to 12,148,000 between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m. ET."

"This year’s tournament didn’t just remind people why baseball matters. It reintroduced the sport to an audience constantly being pulled in a dozen different directions. The challenge now isn’t creating interest. It’s maintaining it."

"If anybody thinks he was unaware of the circumstance after that interview, they are mistaken."

"When a network tries to rewrite the tape, the original mistake stops being the story. The cover-up becomes the story. And that’s the real lesson here for media organizations everywhere. Transparency builds credibility. Editing history destroys it."

"Both the USA and Mexico teams set aside salaries and endorsements and simply played baseball with their country’s name on their chests."

"For a sport built on daily dialogue and generational fandom, leaving AM/FM sports radio on the sidelines turns what should be a grand slam opportunity into yet another swing and a miss."

One morning show told me they didn’t make the hockey win a focus because women don’t care about sports. That, to me, was like saying male-targeted news radio shouldn’t have mentioned the Nancy Guthrie story because men don’t care about kidnappings.

"The ESPN family has been special to me, and I can’t wait to watch some more baseball, be more involved. Especially an environment like this. It's special."