In a bipartisan panning, Fox Sports 1’s broadcast of the Tigers-Royals game Saturday can be declared the worst major league baseball broadcast in history.
@blessyouboys @FS1 that broadcast was the worst. It's like they were aliens witnessing a game of baseball for the first time.
— DNYWVR (@dnywvr) September 4, 2016
It’s no surprise that Tigers fans could not stand the efforts of Kenny Albert and Tom Verducci (with Ken Rosenthal making occasional appearances). The crew spend most of the time praising every little thing about the Royals, from their mouthpieces to their speed to their bobbleheads to the fact their fans all happen to wear team colors, to more mouthpieces. You could be fooled into believing this was an intersquad game, because there was absolutely no mention of the Tigers all game long.
Watching tigers/royals game,terriable color guy on fs1 Tom verduchi is biggest clown on tv. Try not being a KC royals Homer .
— chad davis (@chaddavis0531) September 4, 2016
Tonight's Commentating=Brutal pic.twitter.com/n6IJh7Pcpk
— Jessica McCann (@Jessica_McCann3) September 4, 2016
If I didn't know any better I would have thought I was listening to the Royals home broadcast. @FOXSports announcers are horrible! #Tigers
— marc (@cramstrebor) September 4, 2016
Watching tigers/royals game,terriable color guy on fs1 Tom verduchi is biggest clown on tv. Try not being a KC royals Homer .
— chad davis (@chaddavis0531) September 4, 2016
No wonder people think baseball is boring when the announcers don't pay attention to the game. MLB is awful at selling its product
— Kurt Mensching (@BYBKurt) September 4, 2016
@BYBKurt Easily the most boring announcers I've ever heard. You couldn't be worse if you TRIED.
— Tyrus Raymond Cobb (@The_Ty_Cobb) September 4, 2016
Of course, there was hardly any mention of baseball all game long either, a fact that the baseball-loving fans of Kansas City picked up on as well.
"You look around the stadium here, look at all the people wearing Royals gear!"
— Dylan Miles (@DylanOnDeck) September 4, 2016
Well, Tom, you are in Kansas City, home of 2015 WS champs.
Amazing Kansas Citians were able to coordinate wearing Royals gear to a Royals game. https://t.co/Kh5jLxo6a8
— Royals Review (@royalsreview) September 4, 2016
My god these commentators are stupid. The ball /was/ called dead that's why there was no review. Stop claiming Salvy was lazy. #Royals
— Bandon Decker (@Bandon_Decker) September 3, 2016
Look, baseball fans want to see baseball and hear people talk intelligently about baseball. You don’t need a former player to talk intelligently about the game. In fact, if we’ve learned anything from ESPN it’s that former players are pretty awful, too.
But would it have been so hard to at least be interested in the game of baseball in front of you, Kenny and Tom? That was an awful effort.