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New York Post
4 days ago
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- New York Post
Keith Hernandez had no idea how to react to ED medication ad read: ‘What did you mean by that?'
Mets announcer Gary Cohen does plenty of in-game ad reads, but this one left Keith Hernandez beyond confused. Ahead of the top of the eighth inning in Saturday's Mets win over the Rockies that aired on WPIX, Cohen did an ad read for BlueChew, a medication for erectile dysfunction, in which he told viewers to 'chew it and do it.' Hernandez was left perplexed by Cohen's statement, asking him the meaning behind it after a brief pause. Advertisement Gary Cohen: "By BlueChew. Chew it and do it." Keith Hernandez: "What did you mean by that?" Gary Cohen: "I just read the copy here. I try to give it a good read. Try and give the advertiser everything that they paid for, Keith. And then it's somebody else's problem." #MLB — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 31, 2025 'What did you mean by that?' Hernandez said. Cohen responded by saying he was simply reading what was given to him. Advertisement 'I just read the copy here,' Cohen replied once the eighth inning began. 'I try to give it a good read. Try and give the advertiser everything that they paid for, Keith. And then it's somebody else's problem.' Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez celebrate 20 years on SNY. SNY The Mets' broadcast crew, which consists of Cohen, Hernandez and Ron Darling and mostly calls games on SNY, is known for its comical moments throughout games, with the trio already having multiple instances similar to this already this season. Earlier this month, the booth berated the umpires during a game against the Diamondbacks after a few questionable calls. Advertisement During the ninth inning of the 4-2 loss on May 1, Mets reliever Ty Adcock threw a pitch that clearly hit the bat of Arizona third baseman Eugenio Suarez and landed in catcher Luis Torrens' glove, but umpire John Bacon called the pitch a ball, which left the announcers mortified. Francisco Lindor celebrates with teammates after the final out of the Mets' 8-2 win over the Rockies on May 31, 2025. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST 'John Bacon does not seem to know the difference between a ball hitting a bat and a bat hitting a glove,' Cohen said. 'That was clear a foul tip for strike three. … I mean, what's going on, Keith?' 'Two series in a row just el stinko,' Hernandez replied.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pistons 100, Knicks 94: 'Carmelo stat line for Jalen'
I usually save quoting the recap headline till the end. But seeing LintoFields' 'Carmelo stat line for Jalen' — in blue! — after the Knicks dropped game two of their series with Detroit 100-92, evening it at 1-1, gets to the heart of what's been weird to me about this series since it started two days ago, and if I'm being honest something that's been going on for weeks if not months. For most of this century, it's the Knicks as a team or an organization I've struggled to understand. Now it's some of the fans. Right after Brunson injured himself in L.A., I wrote that I hoped he would make it back for the playoffs, and that if he did I hoped the unfair slander Julius Randle endured after returning early from his injured ankle two years wouldn't repeat with Brunson. And with the Knicks not even trailing in the first round of the playoffs, here we are, slander afoot. The Knicks lost game two last night. That sucks. I know. Especially because unless you're old enough to remember the world before 9/11, you're used to them winning game twos. They won both last year; four of their last five, going back to 2013. Game two wins are always uplifting: if they come at home, you leave for the road on a high note; if they're away, you give the home crowd a bump heading into game three. Advertisement This loss may be less concerning than the fact that the same Pistons who went 3-1 against the Knicks during the regular season, with Cade Cunningham the biggest reason why, have led most of this series with Cunningham the biggest reason why, and would be up 2-0 if not for New York's 21-0 fourth-quarter run Saturday. "THAT'S SAUCY! CADE CUNNINGHAM! RAZZLE DAZZLE JAM!" - Ian Eagle ️ #NBA — Awful Announcing (@ 2025-04-22T01:30:35.172Z And yet despite Jalen Brunson wearing a red cape and S on his chest ever since signing here, playing just his sixth game in seven weeks after a late-season ankle sprain and somehow averaging 36 points a game on 44% shooting over two games that have seen Detroit throw everyone but Aidan Hutchinson at him . . . we gotta deal with someone bringing up the C-word. Sigh. Brunson isn't responsible for the coaching staff apparently never having anticipated the Pistons guarding Karl-Anthony Towns with someone besides Jalen Duren. If the All-NBA scoring machine you traded two of your top players for six months ago has only taken 25 shots combined the first two games while Brunson's taken 27 in each, that's a systemic failing. That's philosophical. Someone somewhere missed something when Brunson's taking twice as many shots as Towns, whose primary defender is Tobias Harris. Saturday night KAT played arguably the best playoff game of his career. Last night he had as many shots as Harris. That ain't right. Brunson isn't responsible for more than one elegant-seeming coach turning back into a pumpkin. OG Anunoby reverted from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde — again — making only four baskets (no 3s) while having no luck slowing down Cunningham (no one else did, either, though no one else is being paid $212 million to slow down the Cunninghams of the world). Two nights after pouring in a decisive 14 points, Cam Payne played four whole minutes and didn't get a shot off. In 15 minutes over two games, Landry Shamet hasn't taken a single 3-pointer. After nine Knicks played double-digit minutes in Game One, it was back to seven in this one. Before you blame Tom Thibodeau, make sure you've cracked that chicken/egg riddle, because a night the Knicks' bench gets outscored 35-8 by the opponents' is a tough time to argue they deserved more run. Advertisement Brunson — I mean, what do you freaking want from him? He's had an incomparably better statistical start to this series than his opening rounds against Cleveland or Philadelphia. Cunningham has been the real deal, as expected (27 points per on 45% shooting), but it's not like he's outpacing what Tyrese Maxey did last year the first two games in New York (34 on 54%). The Captain's head coach is notoriously, tortoise-torturously slow to make adjustments. The Knicks lost, so it's easy to reduce their late-game offense to Mike Woodson's Messiah Melo sets, i.e. 'Here's the rock. Save us, king.' But if Mikal Bridges hits one or both of his wide-open late looks from deep, and the Knicks pull out another comeback, the word 'Carmelo' is a thousand miles away. I'm also struck at the negativity around the Knicks right now — not the disappointment. They went more than three quarters trailing, tied things up with 75 seconds left and then gave up the last six points of the game. They could be up 2-0, with all the pressure in the world on the Pistons to take a must-win Game Three. Now it's the Knicks walking into the lion's den reeking of blood and honey. Honey, it's the playoffs. That's what it's about. What did you think the other team was? A prop? I understand wanting to be up 2-0. But 1-1 is hardly a hardship. The point of participating in the postseason, especially once you've made a few in a row, is identifying and pursuing what it will take to get all the way through it. It was simpler two years ago, when the Heat upset the Bucks and it seemed the Knicks had a simplified path to the conference finals. It was simpler last season, too, when the obstacle was at first the Pacers and then a once-in-a-1000-year injury crisis. Less was expected, so less could let us down; back then, falling equaled learning. Losing to the Celtics next round? Or God forbid the Pistons this round? I fear those falls will feel like failing. Even though these Knicks still have so much to learn. Whether they advance or they're upset, the Knicks need whatever's next. They haven't been the clear favorites in a playoff series in 12 or 24 years, depending on your point of view. The players need to experience the heaviness of being the heavy. The coaches do. Even the fans. For all their history as a franchise and all the collected playoff experiences of so many of their current players, these Knicks, as a collective, are still gaining experience as one. Whatever happens the next four, 10, 14 games, they will learn something they don't know about themselves yet. We will too. Advertisement Jalen Brunson has already won more playoff series as a Knick than Carmelo. We don't have to get into comparing one player who takes less money to stay here and maximize his team's flexibility and one who took the most money he possibly could, forcing the team to trade half its roster for the privilege. We really don't. I never imagined when I signed up for last night's recap that Carmelo freaking Anthony would feature in it. Maybe I should have. The Knicks entered this season and this series with higher hopes than they have in a good long while. There doesn't seem to be a ton of confidence in them justifying those hopes, at least to some. Raising hopes only to stumble and fall nowhere near the finish line is the epitaph of the Melo Knicks. I'd wager before these playoffs and this period in Knick history are finished, this team will have failed better. More from
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Tom Brady played in 10 Super Bowls, now gets to do his 1st as announcer at Fox
Tom Brady has participated in 17% of the Super Bowls ever played. It's accurate to say nobody knows what it's like to be in a Super Bowl better than Brady, who set the record with 10 championship game appearances as a player. Brady's 11th Super Bowl will be a lot different though. Brady, in his first season as Fox's highly paid No. 1 color analyst, will be in the booth for Super Bowl LIX when the Kansas City Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles for the second time in three years. Brady has been the star in some of the most tense, memorable and watched Super Bowls ever. That was as a player, not as a rookie announcer with roughly 120 million people watching and critiquing his analysis. When this Super Bowl kicks off, Brady will once again be one of the biggest stars of it. One thing is certain: Brady will be making more to call the Super Bowl than just about any of the players on the field. Brady's $375 million deal with Fox Sports over 10 years was a stunner. It was unprecedented for an announcer. There was always going to be plenty of attention on Brady if he became an announcer after his playing days were done, but the contract added to the pressure a bit. It has been an up-and-down season for Brady. There were questions surrounding him replacing Greg Olsen on Fox's No. 1 team because Olsen had established himself as one of the best color commenters in the business. Brady's style as an announcer hasn't really stood out. He shares his vast expertise at times, but also has too often reverted to clichés and buzzwords. He has mostly been too safe in the booth, not letting his personality show much or creating many waves. The restrictions on him as a limited owner of the Las Vegas Raiders — a dual role that has led to controversy this season — could be why he has been reluctant to be overly critical. In an Awful Announcing poll of readers ranking the NFL's 25 announcing teams this season, Brady and his partner Kevin Kevin Burkhardt ranked 14th. That's not exactly what Fox was paying millions for, but the middle-of-the-pack ranking seems like a fair assessment of Brady's rookie season in the booth. Some have enjoyed him, some haven't, but it's hard to say he's made a big splash like Tony Romo did his first season calling games. But on Super Bowl Sunday, everyone will have an opinion on Brady's call. Here were some criticisms of Brady's work during his rookie year in the booth: The Athletic's sports media critic Richard Deitsch after a Week 2 Saints-Cowboys game: "Brady is still coming to the replays a little late, he seems reticent to criticize coaches, and we still don't get second-level analysis, which for my definition is teaching me something new about the game that I didn't see if I was following the ball. For me, that's the separator between being a good NFL analyst and a great one." Bill Simmons on his podcast in early November: "This guy's like one of the greatest resources in football that we have, and they don't tap into any of it. ... I know it's in there, and they just have not unlocked it. I think they really have to figure it out. He seems super over-prepared to me.' Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee after Brady was approved for a minority ownership stake in the Las Vegas Raiders: "A broadcaster doesn't have to burn everything to the ground; that kind of Skip Bayless/Stephen A. Smith flamethrowing is less analysis and more performance, and fans can see through it. But a broadcaster ought to have the freedom to speak both honestly and authoritatively on tricky topics — an underperforming player, a dubious coaching decision, a missed or misapplied penalty."The alternative is exactly what we got from Brady on Sunday afternoon during Fox's Chiefs-49ers broadcast: a peppy, cheerful broadcast so full of praise and rah-rah that the NFL's own scriptwriters couldn't have crafted it better." Former teammate Vince Wilfork on WFAN's "Boomer and Gio" show on Jan. 14: I don't think Vince Wilfork thinks Tom Brady is a good broadcaster 😭 — Boston Sports Burners (@Logan_BSB_) January 15, 2025 There was speculation that perhaps Brady would walk away after one season due to his other job as part owner of the Raiders. He said that's not the case, that he likes the job and he has "had the best time at Fox." Like his playing career, he's learning as he goes. "It has been a lot of growth for me in one year," Brady told Colin Cowherd during an appearance on "The Herd." 'I can't wait to see what it looks like in Year 2 and way beyond that too. I've got nine years left on my deal and maybe longer, you never know. If Fox wants me then I want to go. We'll just keep going because it has been really fun thus far.' Brady gets to try his new trade on the biggest stage possible at Super Bowl LIX. If people don't have an opinion about Brady as an announcer yet, they might after that game.
