Ron Santo used to do the same, (or there was some guest announcer that did for 1 inning while Pat went on break?) and they just continued the tradition "tradition" I'm pretty sure Hughes has the 5th inning off contractually, the problem is not having an actual PBP person do it like they have in the past, where someone like the updates guy is an aspiring PBP guy(for the life of me I can't remember any of the names) and does it. I remember he use to take a full inning off, like just completely remove his headset and not say anything. Now he is still there but is just letting Coomer do PBP.