NBC's Jason Benetti
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Episode 601 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features an interview with the new voice of Major League Baseball on NBC, Jason Benetti.
Benetti talks about a highly unusual entry on his Wikipedia page, getting a last-minute call to fill in for Brian Anderson on the NCAA Tournament last week and his extremely busy schedule these days.
In addition, Benetti talks about what he hopes Sunday Night Baseball on NBC will be, his philosophy on using analytics in a telecast, working with rotating analysts every week and much more.
Following Benetti, Sal Licata, from SNY TV and “The Sal Licata Show,” joins Jimmy for their weekly “Traina Thoughts” segment. This week’s segment opens with Jimmy interviewing a social media follower about a Larry David/sports bar story. Then, Jimmy and Sal discuss the NCAA Tournament and the start of the MLB season. Sal follows up on his new relationship with Jerry Seinfeld and Jimmy reads the latest Apple reviews.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to S-I Media with Jimmy Traynor. |
| 0:05.9 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:07.9 | Great time here in the sports world with the tournament going on and Major League Baseball |
| 0:12.5 | now underway. |
| 0:14.3 | And as you know, NBC's back in the baseball business. |
| 0:17.1 | They'll be airing Sunday night baseball in the regular season and they have a wild card round. |
| 0:21.7 | The man calling all of those games, Jason Benetti is the guest on this week's episode. |
| 0:26.6 | And following Jason, we have the train of thought segment with Sal Lakata. |
| 0:30.6 | I also need to tell you, we put out a bonus pod earlier this week, if you missed it, especially if you're a Mets fan, Gary Cohn, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling with a guest, the Mets local booth on S&Y, best booth in the business. So two pods for you this week. Make sure, well, obviously, you're checking this one out. Check the other one out. And also, John Fanto was outstanding last week from the college basketball world. Tremendous feedback on that. I appreciate all the guys and gals who have weighed in and had sent me messages on the various platform. I mean, it's kind of, it's really out of control now because I've got Twitter, Instagram. There's a Reddit page for me. I have my column. I got Blue Sky. There is a Facebook page. I mean, I don't understand any of this. |
| 1:12.9 | But anyway, if you have questions, hit me up on any of those platforms and make sure you |
| 1:18.9 | subscribe. Most important thing is to subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Traynor. All right. Let's get to it. |
| 1:24.8 | We got Jason Benetti on going to NBC to do baseball and he'll be doing other things as he reveals in the interview. And then we've got Salicata. Oh, and I should tell you in the train of thought segment, we have a Twitter follower on the podcast. I'm not even going to tease it. When you go to the training thoughts segment, you'll hear how it plays out. I'm not going to tease it. |
| 1:44.4 | All right. |
| 1:45.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:49.7 | Jason Benetti, followed by Train of Thoughts all right here right now. |
| 1:52.9 | On SI Media with Jimmy Trayna. |
| 1:55.7 | All right, joining me now. |
| 2:03.1 | Someone we are going to see a lot of now that the baseball season is here is the new voice of baseball on mbc sunday night baseball jason benetti jason how are you i'm great jimmy how are you i'm good baseball's |
| 2:10.5 | here so that's a good thing i like this time of the year too we have the tournament and baseball starting |
| 2:15.3 | at the same time you know weather getting a little better. |
| 2:17.9 | So it's if you're a sports fan, everyone should be good right now. |
| 2:23.6 | Speaking of the tournament, I know you filled in for Brian Anderson last week. |
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