Another possible solution is detailed here:
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Seconding the Hank Stram/Jack Buck love.
These days I mute Seahawks games to listen to the local team of Steve Raible and Warren Moon. Moon might just be the best color guy in football; he can break down busted routes, bad reads, etc. instead of the usual cliches of “he knows how to win”. Plus the Seahawks tend to get the “C” broadcast team on TV.
And I always listen to the All-Star game and World Series on radio because, do you really want to hear Tim McCarver and Joe Buck if you can avoid it?
I used to do this back when the Redskins’ radio broadcast team was Sonny, Sam, and Frank Herzog.
We did it back when the Pistons played the Bulls around 1988-90. The announcers on TV were so pro-Jordan and we were Detroit fans that we put on George Blaha on the radio and watched the TV with him.
Sometimes when the Cubs play the White Sox, they use the White Sox announcers for the TV broadcast. Hawk Harrelson has to be the worst play-by-play announcer of all time, so I listen to the Cubs’ radio broadcast on WGN 720 AM instead.
I exclusively listen to baseball on the radio. I think it’s because the game predates television by so many decades, but it just seems like it was meant for radio. I’ve just never been able to enjoy baseball on TV.
Of course, right now I don’t even own a television. But I still remember one Sunday afternoon in the 1990s when the Seattle Mariners and Seahawks were playing at the same time. I had the Seahawks on TV with the sound muted, and the Mariners on the radio, and I followed both at the same time. I think I was also reading a book.
Used to be a standard operating procedure when watching/listening to the Test cricket to utilise the ABC (i.e. the public broadcaster) for commentary with the commercial but free-to-air telecast.
But apparently due to satellite and other signalling delays (not to mention that Channel Nine has a vested interest in the two signals being out of synch) the TV is now about 10 seconds delayed.
There is a Plan B with digital radio to adjust but it’s a bit fiddly for us dinosaurs, though well worth it when it’s in place.