Phillies snubbed by Fox; Rays don't know any better

"As far as each player being announced, it should be," Rollins said. "You worked this hard all year long and you're the last two teams left. I thought it was kind of cheap those guys didn't get the chance to get recognized. It took 25 players to get here, and each one of them should have been recognized. Bottom line."

The Phillies are trying to do something about it, saying that Fox Television asked baseball to forgo the tradition. The Phillies, who are set to open Game 3 of this World Series at home on Saturday night, have asked their union to petition Major League Baseball on their behalf.

Someone would be kicked to death by Clydesdales if they pulled that here.

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According to the article, they DID pull that here:

Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell said that since the 2004 World Series Fox has only broadcast the starting lineups. He said it was a joint decision between Major League Baseball and the network to try and get to the first pitch faster during the broadcast.

Though I guess that leaves the option for an on-field announcement open. I wasn’t AT game one of the ws in 2004 or 2006, so I don’t know if they announced the players on-field.

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by Valatan on Oct 26, 2008 7:04 PM EDT reply actions

they pulled that here on TV

Not on the field. (I do remember all our bench coaches coming up one by one, even if there was no sound.) This time, there weren’t any announcements to the crowd.

But that isn’t the issue for the players, who said they had no problem if Fox wanted to broadcast the starting lineups, but that this was the first year in which the reserves and coaches weren’t announced to the ballpark.

At least in Philly for Game 3, it looked like they had everyone there.

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by Yadi2Second on Oct 26, 2008 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions