In Cleveland, Paul Hoynes reported the Guardians' main TV announcers are “expected to return” for the 2025 season. That includes play-by-play announcer Matt Underwood, analyst Rick Manning and reporter Andre Knott. MLB announced in October that it was going to produce and distribute the club's regular season games in 2025, but it “has yet to revealed" what platform the games will be shown on. The pregame and postgame programs “are still be discussed as well.” The team will meet with MLB officials “in the coming weeks” (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 1/7).
LET ‘EM COOK: SI’s Jimmy Traina wrote Amazon Prime’s NBA studio show, hosted by Taylor Rooks, former NBAer Blake Griffin and Basketball HOFer Dirk Nowitzki, “has the potential to be one of the best in all of sports.” Traina wrote “kudos to Amazon for resisting the urge to be like every other network and have a studio show with a million people on it.” Traina: “I love the idea of a three-person show. Let Griffin and Nowitzki cook” (SI, 1/7).
