Five of the broadcast teams made it through their games without a single biased comment: the Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and Blue Jays.
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This may not be a coincidence: Curt Gowdy Jr., the senior vice president of production for Mets broadcasts on SNY, said that in a “highly opinionated” market like New York, the fans wouldn’t take well to their announcers being blatant homers. “The ‘we’ and ‘our’ cannot be in the vocabulary,” he said.
via How Biased Is Your Baseball Announcer? Ken “Hawk” Harrelson Leads the Way – WSJ.com.
I dare the WSJ to do a similar study of the Yankees’ radiocast.
The criteria they used was too strict. They should’ve also included backhanded comments, whining about the umps, and exaggerating the quality of routine plays, of which every Braves’ broadcast is chock full.