"the baseball announcers" vs. "baseball announcers"

[shiqangpan]

I explained a few baseball terms to my friends, where I started with

"You might hear baseball announcers say ..."

Should I have said "You might hear the baseball announcers say ..."?

I didn't mean to refer to some specific baseball announcers, though baseball announcers is a specific group of announcers as opposed to all kinds of announcers.

In short, should I put "the" before "baseball announcers"?

[patron]

In short, should I put "the" before "baseball announcers"?

if the listener knows which baseball announcer you are talking about, then you should use the

If you are talking about baseball announcers in general (no specific announcer), then don't use the

[shiqangpan]

Got it. Thank you so much.