This was a particularly difficult week to suffer what TV has become.
It was impossible to escape the sounds and sights of weather warners standing in deadly conditions — pelted by rain, surging seawater and debris-launching, tree-bending, house-splitting winds — to urge viewers to seek shelter from this life-imperiling calamity.After Kyle Schwarber hit a leadoff home run in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Mets, ESPN posted a graphic stating it was the slugger’s first home run of the postseason. It was the Phillies’ first at-bat in the postseason as they had a bye.
ESPN again tried to reinvent the flat tire by eliminating runs, hits and errors graphics from its half-inning cuts to commercials. TBS posted three round yellow dots, one for each out, as if we needed that third yellow dot to realize three outs are all you get .Fox graphics included revelations such as the batter who was “0-for-6, no HRs.”by orders of team owners and the MLBPA, who share the benefits. You? As my uncle would say, “You get borscht.
Consider that Manfred’s extra-innings, fantasy-as-real-runner determines 10 percent of regular-season games. Yet, in the postseason you play it out, like good old baseball. So now whatever accelerated pace-of-play has been established is mitigated by four- and five-inning starters, and bullpen shopping trips to find just the right one to lose the game to the other manager who is also eager to lose by relief pitcher excess. Crap-shooting misidentified as strategy.
Fox’s Adam Amin seems smitten by Gus Johnson’s and Kevin Harlan’s not-so-secret to success. He screams and hollers over live picturesThe surprise has been venerable Bob Costas, long a truth-seeking, truth-telling favorite. Costas, in his measured voice, has several times asked us to
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