![]() ![]() ![]() As television has become increasingly competitive for viewers with the increased competition of additional television channels, streaming services, and gaming platforms, keeping fans entertained is a key component. There are, of course, detractors from the in-game conversations, largely from purists – the hard-core fans of the game. “I think it's a really important statement about the about the baseball brand that they can interact - essentially with the media but it’s the media as a third party, the viewer in a direct way that no other sport has been able or willing to do.” “Mic’ing up players is a real opportunity for baseball to do something unique and different and progressive, Orlins said. Phil Orlins, ESPN’s vice president of baseball production, believes it's extremely important to position the baseball brand in a progressive manner that takes advantage of the opportunities that are out there with a sport that has the style, pace, and intricacies that baseball has. ![]() Baseball, by its very design, has breaks in the action that affords the conversation, and that keeps fan attention. The one thing that mic’d up players offer to the network is insightful content from a different perspective than the broadcast team during lulls in play. ”We can go any direction and oftentimes they're the ones that will lead us down whatever road we go.” “We’ll talk to the player before the game and ask if there’s topics they’d rather not discuss, but after that, it’s really a blank canvas,” said Karl Ravech, who has been with ESPN since 1993 and has been the voice of Sunday Night Baseball and key to the network’s baseball programming for three decades. As to how the conversation takes place, the broadcast team loosely structures questions and instead looks to what comes out of the conversation and follows it. ![]()
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