Yes, a huge thank you to the MSG crew. It's easy to take for granted how good we've had it TV-wise for the history of the club. Basically every game live on one network, easy to find overflow channels if necessary, and very few tape-delayed games in the early years. Also one of the first to have pre and postgame shows. I've seen a lot of MLS telecasts, and MSG was the first local broadcast that treated it as 'Major League'.
Our announcers have always been among the best in the league, and better than most of the national crews. Shep/Tommy and JP/Steve for a local broadcast team, you've got to be kidding me!
Shep in particular has been the biggest constant of this franchise. He's really the only remaining link to the Metrostars days. His voice, his sayings and his straight shooting will always take me back to sometimes frustrating, but fond memories of players chasing bouncing balls on bad field turf in an empty Giants Stadium. For longtime fans, that's our MLS, and it's nice to still have people and institutions around that remind us of those times, the years invested and history shared. The past few seasons, when I ask my father if he wants to go to RBA for a game, his response is often 'Nah, I'd rather stay home and listen to Shep'. I can't imagine whatever comes next will illicit that response.