Thursday, June 05, 2014
God Bless Texas and No One Else
Listening to last night's game. It seems in general that Ranger games are super-long. When the screen comes up for a recorded broadcast, you see the total time. Last night's is 4 hours and 42 minutes. I don't know what happens but there's a half-hour pregame. We just hit the seventh inning stretch (with a moment of silence for The Gerbil) and the time is now three hours and 15 minutes. So... either this 6-5 Oriole lead is going to be tied and we go into extra innings and/or there is an hour of post-game and/or the last two and a half innings are going to take an hour-and-a-half. Oy.
Well, to be fair, I expect games to generally be 3 hours, which would average to 20 minute innings. So if the end of the game goes for 50 minutes, that's only a bit more than half an hour to cover which could be post-game so maybe that isn't that much. But I still feel like I've been listening all day.
Adrian Beltre is single-handedly trying to win this game for the Rangers. Remember how much of a "disappointment" he was in LA? Good job, Dodgers. JAWS is loving him for the Hall.
Here's the thing about these broadcasts. Wow, the commercials. Each one is trying to out-jingoist the last one. Things you would never expect, like freaking ice-cream, go on and on about the best country in the world is "right here in Texas." I'm sure they also mean New York City, right? There was a furniture commercial with a foreign-sounding guy who wanted to make sure that we knew that the furniture was not made outside the USA. "Let me set the record straight..."
That's going to be tough to listen to all year.
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Well, to be fair, I expect games to generally be 3 hours, which would average to 20 minute innings. So if the end of the game goes for 50 minutes, that's only a bit more than half an hour to cover which could be post-game so maybe that isn't that much. But I still feel like I've been listening all day.
Adrian Beltre is single-handedly trying to win this game for the Rangers. Remember how much of a "disappointment" he was in LA? Good job, Dodgers. JAWS is loving him for the Hall.
Here's the thing about these broadcasts. Wow, the commercials. Each one is trying to out-jingoist the last one. Things you would never expect, like freaking ice-cream, go on and on about the best country in the world is "right here in Texas." I'm sure they also mean New York City, right? There was a furniture commercial with a foreign-sounding guy who wanted to make sure that we knew that the furniture was not made outside the USA. "Let me set the record straight..."
That's going to be tough to listen to all year.
