On December 1, 2010, ESPN announced that Shulman, Hershiser, and Bobby Valentine would be on the network's new "Sunday Night Baseball" crew for the 2011 MLB season. During the "Sunday Night Baseball" telecast between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies on May 1, 2011, Shulman announced live to the ESPN audience that Osama bin Laden had died, a moment that has been compared to Howard Cosell's report of John Lennon's assassination on "Monday Night Football" in 1980. Shulman told "USA Today" that he had learned of bin Laden's death from Valentine, who himself received the news via text. "I talked to the producer in the truck and asked if they knew what was going on. Or maybe they asked me," said Shulman. "I couldn't just say something on-air because of a text, I needed corroboration. It all happened in about 30 seconds."