Baseball television people are always bitching about how the ratings for the post season, especially the World Series, suck.
I have a couple of reasons to put forth, and I'm not referring to the usual beefs that the start times are too late for fans to stay up and watch the whole game, especially for kids, or how the television time outs are so damn long that it's way too easy to completely forget the game is on. I am going to give two new beefs.
Tonight, during the game, FOX did an in game interview with last night's winning pitcher. They kept the interview going through the entire half inning as said pitcher did impressions. Harry Carey. Arnold Swartzenegger. Just what I want for my in-game analysis; some dumb jock who gets paid a disgusting amount of money doing horrible impressions during a World Series game. Great television, huh?
The second example was when Cardinal pitcher Chris Carpenter misplayed a ground ball hit to him. Tim MacCarver's hall of fame expert analysis was that Carpenter is six foot six inches tall and people that tall tend to overrun balls. Really Tim? Not only did you just say that he made the error because he's tall, but you just said that ALL tall people make exactly the same error. Are you kidding me? You get paid to come up with horse shit like that?
The entire broadcast has been two parts embarrassing and one part insulting.
That is why your ratings are in the tank, FOX.
Because everything about your broadcast sucks. Everything.
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