Comments on: Things That Bother Me

By: Jinwoo

Jinwoo — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:14:33 +0000

Also…
Every TV broadcast seems to do this. Runner on second, single to the outfield. The fielder comes up throwing, one of the most exciting plays in the game. Instead of showing the throw, the station cuts to a close up of the runner rounding third, and then cuts back just in time to see the throw reach the catcher. It is virtually impossible to gauge outfield arms on TV because of this senseless production decision. Please, pull the camera out, let us see Vlad, Ichiro and others cut loose with their cannon arms.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:16:03 +0000

The people who hate Minis usually have never driven one.

By: realbbbb

realbbbb — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:36:40 +0000

“The Cooper Mini: This car offends me.”

Totally agree..the worst car out there besides the new VW beetle.

By: Hill

Hill — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:42:25 +0000

Heroes just came out on DVD and you can watch all the episodes online which is a pretty unfortunate way to have to watch reruns.

By: Sal Paradise

Sal Paradise — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:19:42 +0000

They only have OBP in the little box for the first time up. Then we revert to batting average and previous times at bats / batter vs. pitcher stats (he’s 10-17 with two homers against this pitcher Jerry, he must have him figured out).

Infinitely better than the Yankees announcers though. There’s a special place reserved in Hell for the Japanese executives who decided to broadcast Sox-Yankees games with the Yankees announcers.

The Mariners announcers sound like they’re ready to leap from the booth to their death every game — no passion or will to watch their team win.

But sweet Jesus the Yankees announcers are God awful.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:22:33 +0000

Dish Network’s DVR supposedly allows you to use PIP but I have not been able to figure it out.

With the announcing/tv annoyances, maybe someone will come up with online sabermetric broadcasts, where say Ken Tremendous and Paul Depodesta (just two names off the top of my head) could give commentary that is relative to all of the research done up to the 21st century. Also cursing could be integrated in this (I would love to hear Skip or Pete drop an f-bomb when JoJo or Buddy gives up a home run).

By: CT

CT — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:03:12 +0000

the only time a mini cooper is acceptable:

jason bourne driving it through paris f-ing things up

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:19:05 +0000

About Triple Crown Stats: I totally agree, for the Sox broadcasts on NESN they’ve actually had OBP in the line graphic for a while, so that’s pretty sweet.

I hate the Mini Cooper so much.

By: M. Thomason

M. Thomason — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:04:14 +0000

Holy smokes. Sean, you rock.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:59:13 +0000

I’m on the Heroes bandwagon as well, and I feel like I’m going to be spending my whole September watching last year’s TV shows to catch up. I would love to see the previous season’s shows out in July.