2013 MLB postseason running thread

I hope they don't do shit next season. Ernie Johnson is dreadful.

 

I will say the one thing they do great is the Watch TBS app and the ability to watch the channel on the TBS website. I can watch the game wherever I am. Unlike with Fox, where I have to be at a TV.

 

I'd rather hear McCarver than Ripken and Johnson gargle each others balls. Ron Darling is okay but their coverage is horrid.

 

Were you trying to post something and ask me a dumb question?

I don't mind when a baseball player does something after a big hit. But when a football QB is celebrating in a game his team is supposed to win (and he was suspended for the first half) he's a douche.

 

Now the Cardinals are pissed at the Dodgers' antics:

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/15/shocker-the-cardinals-think-the-dodgers-celebrate-too-much/

 

If Bodie's OK with it, then I am too.

 

I don't think those things are different. Granted, Puig made it into third base well ahead of the throw but soon as the ball sailed he tossed the bat and acted as if it was a home run before realizing OH SHIT! and started to haul. That's douchebag material. Another little sign that he'll be a headache soon.

 

The different angles they throw at you during the postseason broadcasts has me once again wondering why we get stuck with the center-field camera shot as the exclusive baseball camera angle for pitches. As anyone who has ever played a baseball video game starting in about 1992 realizes, the ballparks are an enormous part of the aesthetic value of watching a baseball game. A lot of the shots incorporate them. I feel like I'm at Fenway at times. I see it in ways I've never seen it before.

So why do we get stuck with a camera angle that homogenizes dozens of ballparks?

It's not just the ballparks, either. From behind the batter, or from a side, I am reminded that there are 10 players (or more, if men are on base) participating at a given moment, not just three.

I agree that there is way too much extraneous stuff being shown between pitches. Not just crowd shots, but also the pitch-by-pitch replays. They need to let the game breathe more. But the camera angles are really illuminating, and I wish baseball would move in that direction, technology being what it is now. People think baseball is boring to watch, and part of that is that the dominant camera angle crops out almost everything interesting going on and reduces the game to pitch-and-catch at a generic stadium.

 

Advertising signage behind home plate.

 

Sold by the teams, not the networks. Now, many teams have an ownership stake in their RSN, but the signs mostly pre-date that development.

Home plate rotational signage takes advantage of the center-field camera, it's not the reason for its dominance.

 

Actually, the network super-impose their own advertising signs over what's there. If you go to a game, for example, the sign might be for Coca-Cola or Budweiser or LADodgers.com. But if you watch on TV, it will be for "The Big Bang Theory" at 10 p.m. on TBS.