Mike Tirico has enough on his plate.<\/p>\n
The NBC Sports frontman is already the lead voice for the network\u2019s\u00a0Sunday Night Football package, will call\u00a0Sunday Night Basketball once NBC\u2019s premier NBA package tips off next month, hosts primetime coverage of the Olympics, and is the lead anchor for the Kentucky Derby. Tirico might have superhuman abilities to juggle these responsibilities, but even the best in the business need a break once in awhile. So when asked whether or not he would be interested in calling games on NBC\u2019s new\u00a0Sunday Night Baseball package, thereby completing the Sunday night sports trifecta, Tirico finally acknowledged his limitations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never called a baseball game,\u201d Tirico told Brian Steinberg of Variety<\/a>. \u201cAt some point, I hope I get the chance to do one, but the plate is way too full right now.\u201d<\/p>\n NBC has yet to announce its broadcast plans for\u00a0Sunday Night Baseball, but Fox Sports\u2019 Jason Benetti<\/a> is reported to be the network\u2019s top choice to serve as lead play-by-play voice for the package. Benetti calls MLB, college football, college basketball, and the occasional NFL game for Fox Sports in addition to serving as the television voice of the Detroit Tigers. ESPN and Baltimore Orioles announcer Kevin Brown<\/a> has also been reported as a candidate to join NBC\u2019s baseball coverage this season.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no surprise that Tirico would take his name out of the running for the baseball gig, but his proven versatility across sports had to at least crossed the mind of NBC Sports executives as they began weighing their options for the position. After all, having Tirico provide continuity throughout NBC\u2019s Sunday night programming across the entire calendar year would establish a level of familiarity for viewers that would\u2019ve been unprecedented in the history of broadcast sports.<\/p>\n In just over a week, Tirico will face another unprecedented assignment: calling the Super Bowl before hosting a night of primetime Olympic programming for NBC. He might be the only sports broadcaster in the country with the ability to do both back-to-back.<\/p>\n \u201cMike is a unicorn,\u201d Sunday Night Football executive producer Rob Hyland told Variety. \u201cI\u2019ve never met anyone like him, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever meet anyone like him again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tirico has enough on his plate. The NBC Sports frontman is already the lead voice for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,71775,33941,13133],"class_list":["post-543262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-mike-tirico","tag-mlb-on-nbc","tag-sunday-night-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115975738067186104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}