Wednesday, March 16, 2005
The Prophet and Mr. Obvious
So I'm watching some ST baseball on ESPN2 before heading to work today... Now, normally watching any sort of baseball would be great. But the broadcast team they've got today is driving me crazy (moreso than usual). Not even sure who is in the booth aside from Gary Thorne, who seems to have drawn the short straw in terms of being stuck broadcasting every ST game that ESPN does, whereas the other broadcasters seem to rotate.
The first comment to drive me nuts (and I'm not even sure who said it) was on the effect Mike Matheny's addition to the Giants. They claimed that, by adding Matheny, the Giants' team ERA would be lower than last year's by a run and a half! Now, I'm not saying Matheny isn't good, because he is. But he alone will not make that large of a difference in the team ERA. It's not like the Giants have had a run of shitty, inexperienced catchers (b/c their main reasoning for this was all of his "experience behind the plate"). They had Pierzynski and before that Santiago... Both guys with plenty of "experience". And yes, Pierzynski has an attitude and Santiago is somewhere in the 60+ age bracket, but there is no way that a switch to Matheny will cause that drastic of a drop.
The second comment (again, don't know who to attribute it to, as I wasn't really paying attention until I heard it) was: "It's safe to say that [Ichiro] can probably put the bat on more balls than any other player in baseball right now." Really? Is that true? You're telling me there isn't anyone else out there who just set the record for most hits in a season?!? Stop the presses. Ichiro can hit. Go warn everyone. Someone out there might not know that he can hit. Ugh. This comment is just unnecessary.
Anyway, it is ST, so I guess the announcers also need a little time to get into things. But between making wild prophecies and blatantly obvious statements, they're driving me absolutely nuts today.
The first comment to drive me nuts (and I'm not even sure who said it) was on the effect Mike Matheny's addition to the Giants. They claimed that, by adding Matheny, the Giants' team ERA would be lower than last year's by a run and a half! Now, I'm not saying Matheny isn't good, because he is. But he alone will not make that large of a difference in the team ERA. It's not like the Giants have had a run of shitty, inexperienced catchers (b/c their main reasoning for this was all of his "experience behind the plate"). They had Pierzynski and before that Santiago... Both guys with plenty of "experience". And yes, Pierzynski has an attitude and Santiago is somewhere in the 60+ age bracket, but there is no way that a switch to Matheny will cause that drastic of a drop.
The second comment (again, don't know who to attribute it to, as I wasn't really paying attention until I heard it) was: "It's safe to say that [Ichiro] can probably put the bat on more balls than any other player in baseball right now." Really? Is that true? You're telling me there isn't anyone else out there who just set the record for most hits in a season?!? Stop the presses. Ichiro can hit. Go warn everyone. Someone out there might not know that he can hit. Ugh. This comment is just unnecessary.
Anyway, it is ST, so I guess the announcers also need a little time to get into things. But between making wild prophecies and blatantly obvious statements, they're driving me absolutely nuts today.
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