Matt Shepard Out After Five as Bally Sports Tigers' PBP...

[Trophyhead]

The floor is open for comment and nominations.

[Robert Faygo]

Dickerson should move to TV. He seems, to me anyway, to tone down his delivery when he's doing tv p-b-p vs radio.

Bring back Impemba for the radio gig.

[Trophyhead]

The Free Press article I saw said the Dickerson TV twist is not on their (BSD's) plate.

[MWmetalhead]

I'd like to see Matt return to U-M basketball on the radio; he did a great job in that role.

I sure as hell hope Johnny Kane isn't his replacement. That would be a disaster.

The "national search" line Bally's is using is most likely bullshit. They probably have a narrow list of candidates already in mind.

[Round Six]

Bring back Impemba for the radio gig.

I so agree. So he had a fall out years ago?
Sign him up for the confession booth, make him do 5 Hail Mary's, and put him back on the TV.

Let's be honest. If you surveyed 100 Tiger fans, how many would think the fracas between Allen and Mario was nowhere near worthy of Impemba being banished from the boob tube for life?

[MWmetalhead]

I'd be fine with Dickerson on TV and Impemba on the radio.

More likely, Dickerson moves to TV and a play by play man from one of the Tigers' farm teams gets promoted to fill Dan's current job.

The "national search" claim was touted after Impemba was fired. Instead, Shepard was simply moved from the studio in Southfield to the booth.

[Trophyhead]

Greg Gania and Dan Hasty have had radio fill-in roles on the Tigers Radio Network, doesn't Dan do U of D basketball? I have a choice, but I see so few Tigers' games on TV it's not worth flashing here.

[MichMash]

I'd be fine with Dickerson on TV and Impemba on the radio.

More likely, Dickerson moves to TV and a play by play man from one of the Tigers' farm teams gets promoted to fill Dan's current job.

As pointed out by Evan Woodbery on mlive.com, Dickerson is an employee of the Tigers, while Shepard worked for Bally Sports and not the team. Bally would have to hire Dickerson separately if it wants him for the TV side. And Dickerson is known to have resisted TV work multiple times over the years.

I thought the best radio team this year was Dickerson and Dirks, but Dirks probably doesn't want/need the gig full-time with his day job going well.

And I agree, do whatever it takes to bring Impemba back. His firing was likely a case of FSD not wanting to appear to be playing favorites in the Mario vs. Rod dustup, but the punishment then didn't fit the crime. End the exile, buy him out of his Red Sox deal and bring Mario home.

[Round Six]

... End the exile, buy him out of his Red Sox deal and bring Mario home.

This I didn't know. I thought he was doing something like Oakland University basketball play by play.
Don't always have my finger on the pulse of everything sports. Just looked at a Wiki page. It said:
" It was announced in January 2020 that he would not return to the Red Sox".

[MichMash]

My bad, I didn't know he parted ways with the Red Sox. His X/Twitter caption still reads "Angels -> Tigers -> Red Sox," so I (wrongly) assumed he was still there.

In that case, it should be real easy to bring him back, assuming he would want to. Make it so, Bally, make it so!

[MWmetalhead]

Perhaps Impemba has more baggage than is thought.

[SD45]

Impemba in Boston was a Dombrowski move.

I'm not concerned with whose in the booth. Im looking for a better product on the field.

[edj]

My hunch says it's going to be somebody from out of town.

[billmich88888]

is Bob Rathbun still available?

[Trophyhead]

As to Rathbun, he calls the Atlanta Hawks on TV, but had a big physical collapse on air in Dec. '22. Apparently he got by that.