Nov
12
Leiter to split duties between MLB Network, YES
ByVia Shysterball (you should read Craig if you’re not already), we learn that Al Leiter will no longer be in the YES booth. He’s been hired to work at the MLB Network as a studio analyst. He’ll work alongside former Padres commentator Matt Vasgersian and former ESPN analyst Harold Reynolds. I thought Leiter was one of the better guys on the commentary team. If this means more David Cone, I’m okay with it. If it means more John Flaherty, well, that wouldn’t be a good thing.
Update by Ben 1:38 p.m.: According to an article in this morning’s Times, Leiter will actually be splitting broadcast duties between YES and the new MLB Network. We’re not quite ready to wave him good bye yet.
according to the Times He will be working for both networks.
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Beat ya to it, Rich
This is, by far, the most lucid comment you’ve ever left.
He’s just speechless over this news.
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He was whelmed by the news.
Maybe if my boss didn’t interupt I would of had ya.
I like Leiter cuz he teaches me how to throw a slider
hahaha
absolutely!
but this is tough news about leiter. i am unhappy we’ll get less of him and 3 more years of kay. leiter was a kind of bullshit detector that cut through the blubbering yankee propaganda that kay serves up on the regular.
Joe Morgan is available.
Yeah, but how often can we hear that Robertson Canoe needs to show a more consistent consistency on both sides of the ball, and that the defensively-excellent Derek Jeter really takes a lot of pitches?
I could hear the Jeter cock suckign all day but not so much the Robertson Cano part
Yeah, Cano plays second. Joe Morgan also played second, therefore, in Joe Morgan’s mind, Robinson Cano is not a good ballplayer because he must be compared to Joe Morgan, and anyone compared to Joe Morgan sucks (by comparison), therefore, Robinson Cano sucks.
Q.E.D.
I’m still a bit amazed that the booth didn’t explode when Morgan, Miller, and Kay were all in it together…
The aurora that was left from Whitey and Yogi was the reason the booth stayed in shape
Aurora?
The natural light that surrounds Yankee legends
Ah.
Aurora Bomberalis.
A-Rod will have it one day…….I hope
Managers of the Year announced…
-Scott
agreed joe. more david cone. much more.
But Coney doesn’t even have his own dance!!!
John Flaherty is good.
Bye bye Al. Maybe they’ll believe that pitchers have been consistently screwed for the past 30 years on the MLB network.
He was always a little too sensitive and put upon for my taste.
Plus, he’s a fucking Met. Get off my network.
Meh, he was probably more a Yankee than he was a Met. We drafted him, signed him, nurtured him foolishly traded him away (which he was quite upset about), and at the end of his career we brought him home, and then he started working in our booth. He’s been receiving paychecks from us for more years than he has from the Wilpons.
His career loyalty scale is probably:
1) Yankees
2) Marlins
3) Blue Jays
4) Mets
Nooooo. The only reason why he went to work for the Yanks is the Mets had no openings at the time. Remember, this is right after he retired, before SNY. He asked the Mets for a spot and they turned him down. Michael Kay has mentioned that quite a few times on his show.
He’s a Met in his heart, no doubt about it.
BTW- He was also very upset when the Met fans booed him at the final game at Shea, because he works for the Yankees now. That’s when I remember Kay bringing it up, when he was killing Mets fans for booing Al.
Okay. I’m just saying, he’s been a Yankee for longer than he’s been a Met.
He’s been a overly sensitive douchebag longer than he’s been either one.