Rick Monday, showed radio listeners the game against the Mets on Wednesday but also the game Brooklyn played against the Boston Braves nearly eight decades ago.

“He scored the winning run,” Monday said of Robinson’s debut on KLAC. “He was oh-for-three as far as the bat. But as a human being, he hit a grand slam for society.” 

“It’s not easy to sweep in four games,” Hill said. 

“If you sweep in four games, I think they call that a mop,” Rick Rizzs said. This is his final year before retirement and his 41^st with the Mariners. 

“The Rays have swept the Yankees for the first time in eight years” Andy Freed said on WDAE.  “The first homestand at Tropicana Field in two years and it ends in a sweep.” 

“Swing. Fly ball. Deep left field. Happ back, turns around, there it goes. Just like that the Pirates have the lead 2 to nothing on the homer by Reynolds. What a game in Chicago. What a season for the Bucs already!”

“This guy has a no-no going into the seventh,” Sims said of Springs. 

The Yankees were scoreless and weak. 

“The outs aren’t even loud," Sims said of the run of strikeouts (eight), popups, and weak grounders. Aaron Judge went oh-for-four.

Tuning in to the Texas Rangers radio broadcast is a fire-hydrant flow of information, a single source for a comprehensive view of what is going on in Major League Baseball with a Ranger-centric perspective. 

“We get back to making memories, we get back to fun, we get back to baseball,” Neil Solandz said on WDAE as play began. 

Baseball started the weekend with that new-season smell still in force. There were loads of home openers on Friday; circumstance and pomp reigned in Boston, Denver, Sacramento. It remains reasonable to say it’s early yet, if a team is scuffling. 

These all seem like paragons of the species. Now, thanks to a terrific bit of game color from Mets broadcaster Matt Raad, I know what to call these baseball middle management folks. Perfect.