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I know this isn't exactly where you were going with this thread, but it sort of fits, just bear with me.
I live just outside Greensboro NC. There is no "local" mlb team here. (How Charlotte, hasn't been awarded an MLB franchise I'll never know, but that's a different story.) Any way, my team is the NY Mets, being a transplant from Upstate New York. I PAY for the MLB extra innings package on DirecTV so I can have the pleasure of hearing what I consider the best announcing team currently working today, Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez. ( Keith is CONSTANTLY dropping Strat references into the broadcasts BTW).
So what's my gripe, who's the POS I have to watch? well,for 38 of the 162 Mets games I pay to watch on Extra Innings I do not get the pleasure of hearing from my favorite announcing team and instead have to suffer through the insufferable "talent" calling the Washington Nationals and Atlanta Braves games. Apparently even though Washington DC and Atlanta are both about 300 miles from where I live in opposite directions, Greensboro NC falls into the black out zone for out of town broadcasts for both teams.
Who the FUQ at MLB came up with that brilliant map?
As far as players? c'mon it's the Mets, I'd have a shorter list of who I WANT to watch, I cringe every time we have to use a RP