Surely, there must be some labor laws regarding abuse of sports announcers. Nobody in his right mind would sign up for Kenny Albert’s schedule in recent weeks.

Neil Best of Newsday reports:

When asked to recount his recent work and travel itinerary, he had to check his notes. “I’m definitely losing track of what day it is,” he said.

Not that he is complaining about a dizzying, pan-continental schedule calling both the NHL Western Conference finals on national television and the Eastern Conference finals on local radio. On the contrary.

“It’s been great,” Albert said. “It’s like an adrenaline rush for a month and a half during the playoffs.”

Later, Best writes:

Albert got the assignment to work the West finals for NBC before he knew the Rangers still would be playing in the East. When that happened, he knew he was in for an interesting couple of weeks.

He called games in Chicago on May 18, Montreal last Monday, Chicago on Wednesday, New York on Thursday, Los Angeles on Saturday, New York on Sunday and Los Angeles on Monday, after which he was to take a red eye back to New York, then travel to Montreal on Tuesday and Chicago on Wednesday.

In addition to an understanding family, Albert said he “has tremendous bosses at Fox, MSG and NBC who have all been great about allowing me to maintain this jigsaw puzzle of a schedule. Fox and MSG have been terrific about allowing me to work the Olympics and playoffs for NBC, and it has been a thrill to work deep into the playoffs.”

Albert, 46, said he slept for a couple of hours after Sunday’s overtime game and for another three on the flight to L.A. before arriving at Staples. “That was not an illusion,” he said. “I was in both places.”