The early MLB season has been mostly a welcome return to normalcy: angst returning over the baseball, Shohei Ohtani doing Shohei Ohtani things and broadcasters again traveling with their teams.
But not all broadcasters.
Several weeks into the season, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network remains an outlier, keeping its announcers for the Orioles and Nationals at home for road games. Instead of traveling, the broadcasters are calling the games from the broadcasts booths inside their local stadiums, a tricky task for play-by-play announcers Bob Carpenter with the Nationals and Kevin Brown with the Orioles. The effect on the broadcast has been noticed by fans, with delayed commentary a frequent frustration, such as when a key Oakland error was called several seconds after Orioles fans saw it on MASN, as noted by the SB Nation Orioles’ site, Camden Chat.
