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I'm not sure anything did more to engage my interest as a baseball fan than ESPN's Baseball Tonight back in the day. I'm not sure anything disengages me more than ESPN's actual baseball broadcasts these days.
It's an incredible fall from grace as a production.
It's an incredible fall from grace as a production.
just what the fuck are they even on about?
I know baseball is slow. But part of its charm, if you let it charm you, is the slow build of intensity and meaning. The near misses, the chances squandered on the way to success. They spent an entire inning talking about anything but the game and returned to men on 1st and 3rd.
In a tie game. and there was no tension to release whatsoever. Because we hadn't be privy to the build up. The announcer couldn't imbue any sense of meaning, because there is no meaning when you don't care about the product.
I don't know, man. It just absolutely sucks.
I don't know, man. It just absolutely sucks.
an addendum: You're not required to call the game the whole time. And you can get silly, cross-promote, do all that shit. There's so much time built in for that stuff. The fact that all that time is there, and they expand beyond it, making the game secondary, is unfathomable.
