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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
The prob I find w/baseball centric broadcasts is the over reliance of analytics when talking the sport. They aren't for the baseball fan. They are for the baseball superfan. And I don't believe sports discussion should be all that difficult & complicated. If you're not getting paid, baseball should be a past time, not an expertise.
This is another reason why the media is to blame for baseball's regression in the mind of the sports fan. They've taken the fun out of talking the game. Analytics has taken their place among football & basketball as well. But it hasn't overwhelmed the sport. The casual observer can jump into any discussion in those sports and not feel like a 3rd grader talking to physics professors.
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God, I long for the days where I didn't hear some over-educated pretty face telling us, "Well, he has a .400 batting average in situations like this," when the imbecile should know that being 2 for 5 career statistically means nothing long term. Give me Ernie Harwell...or Vin Scully...or any of those guys who could tell me something INTERESTING about a player because they KNEW THEM. It helped make the players come alive for us all.