The Detroit Tigers have not had a good year by any means and have been officially eliminated from playoff contention.  It has been a very frustrating season for the team and their fans.  But has anyone thought about the two guys Mario Impemba and Rod Allen who are the Tigers TV announcers who travel with the team most if not the whole season and ask them how they feel about the year.  You would image they must be frustrated as well.  Mario and Rod were both hired by the Tigers in 2002 and they have been the main duo for Tigers TV for 16 years.  Mario is the play-by-play announcer and who got his communications degree from Michigan State University.  Rod Allen who is a former Major League Baseball player and played for the Tigers in the Mid 80s and was also a part of the Tigers 1984 World Series team.  Most Tiger fans like the two together in the booth and most of them did not recognize the beef between the two men over the years.  However, there was some rumors over the past couple of years about them being very distant from each other away from the booth, but nothing has been reported in the past about them not liking each other in any way.  However, it must be true because on September the 5th when the Tigers were in Chicago taking on the White Sox Impemba and Allen got in a physical altercation over a “chair”. People who were present during the fight said that Mario allegedly took Rods chair which helps Rod with is back problems and wanted to use it for the day. It was unknown how the physical part of the altercation started, but people who were there said that Allen came up from behind Impemba and got him into a “choke hold”.  The two men were quickly removed from the booth the next day and both flew back to Detroit to meet with Fox Sports Detroit and discuss the situation.  It was reported by FSD that the two men will not be back in the booth this year.  Matt Shepard and Kurt Gibson will be the two TV announcers the rest of the 2018 year, and a decision should be made by FSD before next year’s 2019 spring training if both men will return to the booth next year.  Rod Allen’s agent Tom Shaer told the Detroit Free Press that “media reports of Allen putting Impemba in a “choke hold” are not accurate”.  Impemba has not commented on the situation yet.