Thanks again, AP

I knew they were written off box scores. But it's the lack of context that gets me.

Leading scorer returns, leads team to victory after missing 10 games to save starving children in Africa: You get Xyz scored xx points as team beat other team.

A 5-foot-2 walkon scores 52 points to lead his team, you get the same formulaic lede that doesn't mention the unlikelihood of it all.

They're so devoid of context they might as well be computer-generated.

I'm sure it's a staffing issue, but if one guy is writing several dozen gamers off boxscores, just start with the computers already. That guy's probably not providing much that computers can't.

 

More fun with SportsWatch, or, did no one tell him/her the Rays-Orioles series was shifted to St. Pete?

 

There's also a goof in the NBA playoffs listings, with a 10:30 p.m. time and no game attached to it (there isn't one, but the time is still on there).
And for the love of God, can we please get some ESPNU and SEC Network listings!? Wouldn't mind the Big Ten and Pac-12 Network offerings, either. They include college baseball and softball games for the FSN channels that are wrong at least half the time, but not the widely-carried cable channels that actually WILL carry the games.

 

Yes, the SEC Network glitch is odd. I was once told the threshold for AP's vendor including a network in its listings was 50 million households. (Which at one time excluded the NFL Network.) Well, hell, SECN launched with nearly twice that.

 

Seems like we were getting ESPNU during college hoops and football season, but no more. And, with the way FSN chops up the regional networks, I don't bother.

 

Isn't it still technically considered a Orioles home series, though?

 

It's actually not as big a deal for me during football and basketball season. Every week I go to LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!! to get the full listings off of there, and type them up. Takes a few minutes, but then I can just run them all week, and it's a very comprehensive list that includes all of the smaller regional outlets.
Baseball, which is big here in SEC country, is a different animal. The AP listings have the odd game on FS1, but then I have to go to three different web sites to get a full TV schedule.

 

And, since I fix it every time I do the listings, my pet peeve: Fox is not an acronym, like NBC, CBS and ABC and should be down!

 

zap2it.com is really good about having the regional FSN channel lineups, especially during MLB and college season. The AP almost always lists college games as being on FSN, but they're not always on in my area.

Yes. Orioles will be home team each game. Rays players won't get to use their walk-up music, either.

What about the Xfinity series? Do you uppercase or lowercase that in the listings?

 

The AP schedule gets cross-checked with our quasi-FSN station's broadcast schedule. Sometimes they match up, but more often than not we aren't even getting the event. Sometimes it'll be a delayed airing, although if the delayed broadcast of some college softball game is airing at 4 a.m., we won't even bother listing it.

 

Because it's so hard to tell them apart ...

(actual AP caption) In this image released by CBS, President Barack Obama, left, appears with host David Letterman during a taping of "Late Show with David Letterman," on Monday, May 4, 2015, in New York. (John Filo/CBS via AP)

 

Same goes for pictures of horses and trainers...I really don't need to know that the human on the left is giving the animal a treat.
Pretty much figured that one out on my own.