It’s not quite Pat Hughes, Ron Santo, and the official scorer, but Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke were in the TV booth for about an inning of a recent Red Sox game (link to video on YouTube).
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The end of Zombiecam?
Jim, with whom I failed to see a baseball game last week while I was staying with him in Los Angeles, alerted me to a USA Today story about those hip graphics Fox uses for their football coverage.
Fox, known as the NFL’s most flamboyant carrier, is even cutting back on its glitz.
The network surveyed viewers, Fox senior vice president Gary Hartley says, and found that Fox’s many sound effects, blinking lights and animated graphics were seen as “pointless and annoying.”
So they’ll be reduced. However, he says, Fox is bringing back the
on-screen robots that pop up on its coverage: “We found we’ve lost some
of the attitude we’ve projected in the past. Robots are sacred ground
for that.”
Did they really need to survey more than one person to come up with “pointless and annoying?” Could baseball be next? I can think of a certain talking baseball that I would describe with just those words–if I you limited me to family-friendly language.
And what the hell do they mean by “robots are sacred ground for [attitude]?” These people are very, very strange.
The new MLB TV contract
Their other fan in Los Angeles is a quiz show writer
About a month ago, “Jeopardy!” brought us this nugget of information, and then on Monday, as the $600 clue in a category called We’re No Angels, this came up…
Then, on the Thursday show, the $2,000 clue in Musical Instruments was the following. Not baseball-related, but I know Levi will enjoy it…
(Monday’s clue was correctly answered — or, you know, correctly questioned. The three contestants didn’t even attempt the Thursday one.)
Holy crap! They do exist!
If it’s the subject of a “Jeopardy!” Daily Double (a category called Swimmers, for $600), it must be a legitimate thing to
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They needed an easy-to-read team name
Here’s some baseball-related nostalgia…
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(You know who the head writer of “The Electric Company” was for most of its run? Joss Whedon’s father.)
Keeping track of ex-major leaguers on game show panels
In the 1970s, Joe Garagiola was on “To Tell the Truth” with class acts like Kitty Carlisle and Tom Poston (and served as host for one season, as seen in the film “Catch Me If You Can“).
30 years later, Billy Bean has to sit next to a man wearing a bright pink jacket.
This is GSN’s revival of “I’ve Got a Secret,” which premiered tonight — and which is actually pretty good.
Do not adjust your set
Levi was at the Cardinals-Cubs game today. I watched the Comcast SportsNet broadcast from home.
Levi had to watch the Cardinals not score any runs in the top of the 9th inning and lose 3-2, but I saw something else instead of the last two outs…
I remember being impressed back in 1989 that ABC had a slide specifically reading “World Series” at the ready to throw up on screen when they lost their feed from San Francisco. As you can see, Comcast SportsNet is not as classy as ABC. (And no wonder they’re experiencing technical difficulties — their cnntrol room looks blurry and smeared.)
Opening Day: Coda
Some of the posts below have been updated with illustrative screenshots. Not to be confused with the photographs-of-a-television-screen that have been used here in the past, these are literal screenshots — each a single frame of broadcast television video, provided through the courtesy of my recently hacked TiVo.
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