Jason Benetti Is Leading Candidate To Be NBC’s Top MLB Voice
January 6, 2026
Jason Benetti Is Leading Candidate To Be NBC’s Top MLB Voice
18 comments
Awesome, he is fantastic
He deserves the job, he’s got a love for the game as a whole vs most of the Fox broadcast team in general (I remember him making a personal choice to stay and call every remaining game we had on our 1% wild card run two seasons ago).
I’d imagine if he does land the position, it’s going to be similar to how it works with splitting time between Fox broadcast and being our main play by play announcer. Fox has to agree to this and at that point, they may just get rid of his contract by the time it expires. However, [big] if he’s keeping all these gigs from Fox and lands the NBC job, well, it might complicate our broadcast booth quite a bit throughout the regular season.
Ba ba ba ba baseball, throw me the ball because I’m gonna hit it!
This doesn’t affect his employment with the Tigers right? Fine by me if it’s just what his current schedule is
Would he give up all his FOX gigs to do that? He does NFL, college football, college basketball and 2nd on FOX for national baseball.
Guess that means he won’t be with Fox anymore if this does happen…
But hey, so long as he’s still doing a good amount of Tigers games the other days, so be it.
Always knew he’d be the top guy one day
Deserves it but I’ll be bummed
Happy for him.
Fucking White Sox didn’t know what they had.
If there was such a thing as “King of Sports Broadcasting” I would want it to be Benetti.
Hope he gets it! Love other fanbases potentially being jealous of our broadcast booth 😈
Nooooooo! We need our Jason, Andy, Daniella and Johnny K. rain delay trivia!!!
All the Detroit brain trust “fans” that whine that he talks too much about things they don’t understand, will be thrilled.
I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but I could see this coming from a mile away the second we hired this guy. His eyes were always on a bigger target, which is fine, but he needs to recognize the turmoil that causes in the organizations he moves on from. A play-by-play position is the face of the city and in many cases here in Detroit, people have turned the television on and have had the same welcoming face day-after-day. To me, it isn’t Tigers baseball without hearing Ernie Harwell/Dan Dickerson’s voice because it has been a steady presence in my entire life. Prior to Bennetti, it seemed like Mario would be just that, but we know how that turned out. I’m not going to lie, it absolutely sucked when I would turn a game on the radio and wouldn’t hear Dickerson because he was doing the play-by-play on TV as Bennetti was off doing some national game.
Maybe I am old-school, but I am very much of the mindset that if you are the Detroit Tigers play-by-play guy, that is your job. We all know Dickerson lives and breathes Tigers baseball, and everyone in the city knows Dickerson isn’t going to take another job because, in his mind, and many like myself, he has the best job in the world. Guys like Johnny Kane and Mario, prior to him, either grew up or dedicated their lives to covering sports in this city, and to me, to have a guy like Benetti come in and use you for a couple of years as a bounce pad to a bigger job is a joke. Now we are in the exact same spot we were prior to Benetti trying to find a decent play-by-play guy.
I guess my point is that the search should have always been local, rather than national, so you wouldn’t ultimately be used as a bouncing pad for a national brand. Get guys that are from here or have been working in local sports broadcasting for a while. These are the places where you find the Dan Dickersons of the world, and we as fans will be better off in the long run for it, in my opinion.
Did jason even call any Lions games this year? If not then fuck fox.
Great choice!
This dude actually thought “pulled tork sandwich” was funny… come on
Great so he will do even less Tigers games? Call me old fashioned but I like having my announcers actually be there every game.
18 comments
Awesome, he is fantastic
He deserves the job, he’s got a love for the game as a whole vs most of the Fox broadcast team in general (I remember him making a personal choice to stay and call every remaining game we had on our 1% wild card run two seasons ago).
I’d imagine if he does land the position, it’s going to be similar to how it works with splitting time between Fox broadcast and being our main play by play announcer. Fox has to agree to this and at that point, they may just get rid of his contract by the time it expires. However, [big] if he’s keeping all these gigs from Fox and lands the NBC job, well, it might complicate our broadcast booth quite a bit throughout the regular season.
Ba ba ba ba baseball, throw me the ball because I’m gonna hit it!
This doesn’t affect his employment with the Tigers right? Fine by me if it’s just what his current schedule is
Would he give up all his FOX gigs to do that? He does NFL, college football, college basketball and 2nd on FOX for national baseball.
Guess that means he won’t be with Fox anymore if this does happen…
But hey, so long as he’s still doing a good amount of Tigers games the other days, so be it.
Always knew he’d be the top guy one day
Deserves it but I’ll be bummed
Happy for him.
Fucking White Sox didn’t know what they had.
If there was such a thing as “King of Sports Broadcasting” I would want it to be Benetti.
Hope he gets it! Love other fanbases potentially being jealous of our broadcast booth 😈
Nooooooo! We need our Jason, Andy, Daniella and Johnny K. rain delay trivia!!!
All the Detroit brain trust “fans” that whine that he talks too much about things they don’t understand, will be thrilled.
I know I’ll get downvoted for this, but I could see this coming from a mile away the second we hired this guy. His eyes were always on a bigger target, which is fine, but he needs to recognize the turmoil that causes in the organizations he moves on from. A play-by-play position is the face of the city and in many cases here in Detroit, people have turned the television on and have had the same welcoming face day-after-day. To me, it isn’t Tigers baseball without hearing Ernie Harwell/Dan Dickerson’s voice because it has been a steady presence in my entire life. Prior to Bennetti, it seemed like Mario would be just that, but we know how that turned out. I’m not going to lie, it absolutely sucked when I would turn a game on the radio and wouldn’t hear Dickerson because he was doing the play-by-play on TV as Bennetti was off doing some national game.
Maybe I am old-school, but I am very much of the mindset that if you are the Detroit Tigers play-by-play guy, that is your job. We all know Dickerson lives and breathes Tigers baseball, and everyone in the city knows Dickerson isn’t going to take another job because, in his mind, and many like myself, he has the best job in the world. Guys like Johnny Kane and Mario, prior to him, either grew up or dedicated their lives to covering sports in this city, and to me, to have a guy like Benetti come in and use you for a couple of years as a bounce pad to a bigger job is a joke. Now we are in the exact same spot we were prior to Benetti trying to find a decent play-by-play guy.
I guess my point is that the search should have always been local, rather than national, so you wouldn’t ultimately be used as a bouncing pad for a national brand. Get guys that are from here or have been working in local sports broadcasting for a while. These are the places where you find the Dan Dickersons of the world, and we as fans will be better off in the long run for it, in my opinion.
Did jason even call any Lions games this year? If not then fuck fox.
Great choice!
This dude actually thought “pulled tork sandwich” was funny… come on
Great so he will do even less Tigers games? Call me old fashioned but I like having my announcers actually be there every game.