Tension between mets announcers

Tension between mets announcers
By Nicholas Stix

Over the past several nights, I've noticed somne bad blood between Todd Zeile and Gary Apple (not to be confused with longtime play-by-play announcer, Gary Cohen) on the mets' postgame show.

Several days ago, Apple made an observation, whereupon Zeile said, "As I said earlier..." (i.e., in an earlier broadcast), as if Apple were just repeating what Zeile had already said.

A night or two ago, Apple started to say something, and Zeile just cut him off and went on an extended rant.

Tonight, Apple said something about how tonight's starter, Clay Holmes, who had spent his previous career as a closer, before converting to starter this year, in his postgame interview had said he "can't make the perfect pitch," and has to "force contact." Apple noted that that seemed to be a closer's mentality. Zeile ignored him.

Zeile was talking much more than usual, and Apple much less.

I shut off the TV a few minutes ago, because Starling Marte, 36, who has played professional ball in the U.S. for half his life--his entire adulthood--in "America"--refused to speak English. I saw a stranger (interpreter) standing for the postgame interview. And sure enough, Marte started speaking spanish, and I hit the "off" button.

I'm not a fan of Apple who, a few weeks into the first season of the announcing team of old Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez, pitcher Ron Darling, and civilian Gary Cohen in 2006, joined in a cyber lynch mob against Hernandez, after he complained about a girl being in the San Diego Padres' dugout. Although he's still on the broadcast team with Darling and Cohen, Hernandez never recovered as an announcer.