'I'm incredibly grateful': Tigers legend Kirk Gibson departs broadcast booth

[RandySF]

Gibson, the Detroit Tigers and FanDuel Sports Network Detroit made the joint announcement Monday morning, less than two weeks before the Tigers begin the 2025 season.

Gibson has been a member of the Tigers' broadcast team for 15 years ― most recently, since 2015, and before that, he was in the television broadcast booth from 1998-2002.

"Although I may be leaving the booth, my connection with the Tigers remains strong," Gibson said in a statement Monday. "Over the past 25 years, I have been honored to introduce integral parts of the game from my experiences as a player, manager, and coach. I’m incredibly grateful for the support from the Tigers organization, the Ilitch family, and Detroit’s loyal baseball fans."

Gibson, 67, said that stepping away from the broadcast booth will allow him to focus more on his foundation, which he's used as a platform for Parkinson's Disease patients. Gibson was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 2015.


https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/03/17/tigers-legend-kirk-gibson-leaving-the-broadcast-booth/82491157007/

[Janbdwl72]

1. Gibson showed a flair for the dramatic.

When he walloped that home run off usually reliable Dennis Eckersley .

Have to give him credit, though I was rooting for the A's.

[LisaM]

2. He was a terrible broadcaster.

I give the Tigers some props for keeping him on while he had Parkinson's, but he didn't ever seem to be paying attention to the game at hand. I remember once in about the sixth or seventh inning he said, "the Tigers haven't had any traffic on the base paths" and the main guy had to correct him. "The Tigers have had the bases loaded the last three innings". Every game he did was like that. He added nothing to the broadcast.

It's true that no broadcaster seems to want to describe the action in the field or court anymore, in favor of pointless stats (hockey being an exception, though stupid stats are starting to creep in there, too). But Gibson was about the worst there was, with Jack Morris being a close runner up.