Richard Deitch

And I expect NBC to put on a good show for that.

I'm glad to see ESPN remain in baseball because I think it's important for the sport to have a relationship with ESPN because even though SportsCenter is not the same as it used to be and ESPN is not the same, you still want to have like them.

be interested in your sport because they're just too powerful an entity where you don't want to be buried.

And MLB's got a really good story to tell.

So I think, you know, of all the sort of the teams you mentioned, I think they'll all be fine.

I guess the one thing I'll just be paying attention to, this is more of like a nerdy kind of sports media thing, is Benetti's not working with a singular partner.

Every one of those games, he's going to basically be working with local analysts.

And it'll be interesting just to see how that sounds for

the viewer, because I know over the years writing this stuff, I can't tell you how many people are like, why can't I get my local play-by-play person?

Why can't I get my local analyst?

Well, this will be an experiment where at least in the analyst position, you'll have somebody who knows the team much more than your traditional network guys who just parachute in.

So it'll be interesting to see how that sounds, but I think Benetti's just so good as a play-by-play person, I think you can honestly put him with anybody and it'd be a good broadcast.

I think it depends on the market.

You guys are in a great market that appreciates radio still, right?

That appreciates history.

So I think in a market like Chicago, I think you'll always be in a pretty good position, I think, when it comes to radio broadcasting.

Smaller markets, the one thing I can tell you is they're spending much less money when it comes to traveling on the road.

You know, a lot of times they won't set their...

their broadcast team on the road for radio.

They're calling games back in whatever the home market is, which is brutal, brutal for the broadcasters.