latest dumbass TV marketing ploy

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In the spirit of pitching the entire culture at 8-year-olds (per Michael Powell's orders)... debuting on the Yanks-Sawx Fox telecast:

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/ny-spfox0414,0,6921554.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines

Kee-riiist!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, joe buck mentioned that thing last night on conan. he implied he wasn't terribly enthused.

― John (jdahlem), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Simply to be an anti-Joe Buck, I think it's an awesome idea.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"It also will utilize enhanced graphics that will trace the arcs of pitches and hits and use changing color zones for runners' leads." - sounds cool to me

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i was talking about "scooter", of course.

tbs uses the the "color zones". a bit gaudy, but maybe fox will improve upon it. i don't think it really has much usefulness.

tracing pitches does sound really cool, especially with a guy like wakefield on the mound.

― John (jdahlem), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"a bit gaudy, but maybe fox will improve upon it"

...it's clearly been a long time since i last saw a fox broadcast.

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha
..."using the voice of Spongebob Squarepants.."
talking baseball, glowing hockey pucks, mics on basepaths,..fox fixes shit so the everyman can understand. ..they dont employ McCarver, do they?

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 17 April 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't watching Friday when Derek The Inflated made his error ... what was Tim McCarver-Jeter's reaction to his beloved's muff?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 April 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

MCCarver is a fucking asshole.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Believe it or not, he was pretty insightful when he began his broadcast career with the Mets.

Huis Friday highlight was observing that the steroid issue was important because the Crawford Puppet read about it off his teleprompter in the State of the Union.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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