{"id":543488,"date":"2026-01-29T04:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/543488\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:04:22","slug":"nbcs-mike-tirico-makes-sunday-night-baseball-stance-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/543488\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s Mike Tirico makes &#8216;Sunday Night Baseball&#8217; stance clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone needs some downtime now and again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even sports broadcasting ironman Mike Tirico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/features\/mike-tirico-tough-task-nbc-super-bowl-olympics-tv-sports-1236641719\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NBC Sports broadcaster told Variety<\/a> in a piece published Wednesday that he will not be calling the network\u2019s \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d package when it begins this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never called a baseball game,\u201d Tirico told the outlet. \u201cAt some point, I hope I get the chance to do one, but the plate is way too full right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38319453\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2242611281.jpg\" alt=\"NBC sports commentator Mike Tirico stands on the field prior to an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium on October 19, 2025 in Santa Clara, California.\" class=\"wp-image-38319453\"  \/>NBC sports commentator Mike Tirico stands on the field prior to an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and the San Francisco 49ers at Levi\u2019s Stadium on October 19, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d is the latest addition to NBC Sports\u2019 stable, which includes \u201cSunday Night Football\u201d and \u201cSunday Night Basketball,\u201d both of which Tirico is a part of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster is also part of the network\u2019s coverage of the Olympics and Kentucky Derby, and he\u2019ll call Super Bowl 20206 before he hosts primetime Winter Games coverage for NBC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike is a unicorn,\u201d\u00a0 executive producer of \u201cSunday Night Football,\u201d 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<p>Wednesday also brought some news about who will be part of NBC\u2019s MLB coverage this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/nbc-closes-in-on-clayton-kershaw-for-mlb-studio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Front Office Sports reported<\/a> the network and former Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw are close to a deal to bring him <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/sports\/nbc-targeting-clayton-kershaw-for-studio-analyst-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">into the fold for MLB studio coverage<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.39319728;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38319459\" width=\"822\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/070525Mets024CW.jpg\" alt=\"The Mets and Yankees in action during the 2025 season.\" class=\"wp-image-38319459\"  \/>The Mets and Yankees in action during the 2025 season. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>NBC is getting back into baseball as it takes over the Sunday night package previously held by ESPN. It will also have MLB Sunday Morning Leadoff games on Peacock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The network will also have coverage of the MLB wild-card round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jason Benetti <a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/jason-benetti-nbc-baseball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has been reported<\/a> to be NBC\u2019s top choice for lead play-by-play broadcaster for baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He currently serves as a play-by-play voice for Fox Sports\u2019 coverage of college football, college basketball and MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone needs some downtime now and again.\u00a0 Even sports broadcasting ironman Mike Tirico.\u00a0 The NBC Sports broadcaster told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,71775,4,677,185,4298,7486],"class_list":["post-543488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-mike-tirico","tag-mlb","tag-nbc","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115976410636080469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543488","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=543488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}