Coverage of perfect game - weak

[FanOfTheGame1]

At 4:30 on Tuesday, TBS went dead on my cable. I always enjoy listening to out-of-town announcers (who might have honest unbiased commentary) but of course MLB somehow forces cable companies to kill all broadcasts except the local one, thereby forcing us to watch the local commercials, er... I mean "coverage".

FSAZ blocked out 3 hours for the game, but since it ended at about 6:45, they considered their duty done for the night and switched to "America's Most Outrageous Bikini Bloopers" or whatever the hell it is that they show during the early "family hour".

At which point the cable company switched TBS back on. They stuck around for the full allotted time, long enough to show all of Johnson's locker room interview.

Did any of the local stations break in with a "breaking news" flash, as they always breathlessly do whenever a stolen car is on the freeway, or there's more than a 10% chance of rain? No way.

Phoenix media - you did your usual half-assed job. Maybe you should stop promoting all your sports anchors to the news desk.


p.s. L'il Tommy Brennaman's call of the ninth inning "it's 9:45 P.M." was a blatant ripoff of Vin Scully's 1965 call of Sandy Koufax's perfect game. Good job, Tommy.

 

[schillingfan]

At 4:30 on Tuesday, TBS went dead on my cable. I always enjoy listening to out-of-town announcers (who might have honest unbiased commentary) but of course MLB somehow forces cable companies to kill all broadcasts except the local one, thereby forcing us to watch the local commercials, er... I mean "coverage".

too bad for you. The Braves announcers were really cool about the perfect game. They gave it a lot of coverage after the game, showed RJ's press conference, etc, interview with BB I think. It's all sort of run together for me. But I watched it on TBS and it was my impression at the time that they were really giving Randy his due.

 

[Cland]

I agree. The postgame coverage was pathetic. I had to turn to TBS. It's pretty sad that Fox Sports AZ would rather run Tim Mcarver show instead of any postgame.

 

[Lefty]

At 4:30 on Tuesday, TBS went dead on my cable. I always enjoy listening to out-of-town announcers (who might have honest unbiased commentary) but of course MLB somehow forces cable companies to kill all broadcasts except the local one, thereby forcing us to watch the local commercials, er... I mean "coverage".

FSAZ blocked out 3 hours for the game, but since it ended at about 6:45, they considered their duty done for the night and switched to "America's Most Outrageous Bikini Bloopers" or whatever the hell it is that they show during the early "family hour".

At which point the cable company switched TBS back on. They stuck around for the full allotted time, long enough to show all of Johnson's locker room interview.

Did any of the local stations break in with a "breaking news" flash, as they always breathlessly do whenever a stolen car is on the freeway, or there's more than a 10% chance of rain? No way.

Phoenix media - you did your usual half-assed job. Maybe you should stop promoting all your sports anchors to the news desk.


p.s. L'il Tommy Brennaman's call of the ninth inning "it's 9:45 P.M." was a blatant ripoff of Vin Scully's 1965 call of Sandy Koufax's perfect game. Good job, Tommy.

FSAZ replayed the perfect game yesterday. Did you watch it?

 

[FanOfTheGame1]

FSAZ replayed the perfect game yesterday. Did you watch it?

Same broadcast as Tuesday night.