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Javier:
http://baseballmusings.com/?p=34571

Cover the Game by Dave Pinto via Baseball Musings


--- Quote ---Cover the Game

FOX is looking to get more people watching their baseball broadcasts. My advice: cover the game more and the big stories less. This is true for ESPN Sunday night broadcasts as well. The big game of the week is not a soap box on which to pontificate about the state of the game, or the latest scandal, or anything else. That remains the province of studio shows, newspaper columns, and today, the internet. Talk about the game. Don't spend an inning talking about steroids, with the pitches incidental to the discussion. Don't interview a guest while a rally is underway. Leave that to Baseball Tonight and Ken Rosenthal's columns. I don't want to hear from the managers, I don't want a special guest in the booth, I want the game covered. I want to know the pitch, the count, the result of the play.

I like all the analysis, what pitch to throw in what counts, why the shortstop covered second on a steal, why the defense failed to execute a cutoff play. Teach me something about the game, that's why a former player is in the booth.

FOX is based in Los Angeles. Listen to Vin Scully call a Dodger game. Ask why he's so good. If nothing else, Vin loves the game. Bring that out in the booth and people will want to listen.
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Chamillitary Click:
sounds good to me; that's the way it should be. 8)

a little off topic, but Shaq was talking on ESPN the other day & him & T.O. were doing this class for announcing & Shaq said that when he & T.O.'s careers are over he wants to have a talkshow with him.

that would be such a funny show. :laugh:

herpes:
I agree 100 %.  I have heard other teams booths and the mainstream guys like ESPN and Fox and I am so thankful for the Mets have in the booth.  That is one thing that organization has got right with Gary Cohen one of the best PBP guys in the industry and Ron Darling one of the best color guys in the industry.  And Keith Hernandez who is worth listening to because he is Keith Hernandez.

J.D. Wykid, Esq.:
Vin Scully tells stories all the time.

Are you implying that Vin Scully..the GOAT, is doing something wrong?? 

Javier:
"FOX is based in Los Angeles. Listen to Vin Scully call a Dodger game. Ask why he's so good. If nothing else, Vin loves the game. Bring that out in the booth and people will want to listen."

That's from the article.  The difference between Scully's stories and all the other networks stories are that Vin Scully never interrupts what's happening on the field during his storytelling.  Plus, the commentators on FOX or ESPN start rambling about random crap, while Scully actually has meaningful stories that either relate to the player that is on screen or about the game. 

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