Sunday, June 19, 2005
Fox Sports
I'm watching Cardinals-DRays for who knows what reason on the computer today. Maybe it's so I can listen to the announcers go on and on about what a bad baserunner Cantu is and how quality vets like Abraham Nunez and John Mabry could teach them things. It's Fox Sports Midwest. Watching games on mlb.tv is funny because sometimes they keep the audio on during the commercial breaks and don't show commercials. That's the case today so when they are coming up with an establishing shot, like two palm trees, you hear the announcer say, "Is the one on the right the one Tom Mees was halfway up last night?" (drunk).
Anyway, Fox Sports traditionally likes to show everything except the baseball game. There was a loud heckler in the crowd and they kept showing him - not once per inning, not once per batter, but in between EVERY ACTUAL PITCH. Most of the time he's just sitting there or sipping his beer. He's just some guy at the game.
They do this stupid thing where people can send in "E-mails" on their "computers" to the announcers. They read one email on the air and it said, "Stop showing the heckler." They laughed about that and then continued to cut to this guy at every second that the ball isn't live.
Fox "markets" baseball with the idea that baseball is boring and they need to spice it up. You know what is boring? Showing a guy sitting in a chair. If instead they employed some announcers and directors and researchers who actually liked baseball there are a million interesting things to pick up on and talk about during a game. Just look at any decent baseball blog that has game chatter.
I'm watching Cardinals-DRays for who knows what reason on the computer today. Maybe it's so I can listen to the announcers go on and on about what a bad baserunner Cantu is and how quality vets like Abraham Nunez and John Mabry could teach them things. It's Fox Sports Midwest. Watching games on mlb.tv is funny because sometimes they keep the audio on during the commercial breaks and don't show commercials. That's the case today so when they are coming up with an establishing shot, like two palm trees, you hear the announcer say, "Is the one on the right the one Tom Mees was halfway up last night?" (drunk).
Anyway, Fox Sports traditionally likes to show everything except the baseball game. There was a loud heckler in the crowd and they kept showing him - not once per inning, not once per batter, but in between EVERY ACTUAL PITCH. Most of the time he's just sitting there or sipping his beer. He's just some guy at the game.
They do this stupid thing where people can send in "E-mails" on their "computers" to the announcers. They read one email on the air and it said, "Stop showing the heckler." They laughed about that and then continued to cut to this guy at every second that the ball isn't live.
Fox "markets" baseball with the idea that baseball is boring and they need to spice it up. You know what is boring? Showing a guy sitting in a chair. If instead they employed some announcers and directors and researchers who actually liked baseball there are a million interesting things to pick up on and talk about during a game. Just look at any decent baseball blog that has game chatter.
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