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the coverage on Fox sucks, the announcers suck, their stupid graphics suck, the pregame sucks. Its a good thing for McCarver, people who don't know the game well were very enlightened tonight. They learned that 'Brandon' Arroyo was pitching tomorrow, not Pedro. That a curveball is really called a slider because he called every breaking pitch by Schilling a slider, moron. There were probably other great informational gems but frankly I zone out the announcing.
I actually liked the Star Wars/Evil Empire intro, but the fact that it seemed they had a video package for every damn thing got annoying quick. Treating Marianos trip/arrival like it was OJ driving down the 405 in the bronco was ******ed. 'Mariano is in the building', frankly I could care less.
It has definately gotten to the point where the playoffs suck to watch because your stuck with the National telecast overproduced, pop-culture view of the game. The regional broadcasts are a million times better because they mostly focus on the game, I can deal with homer announcers as long as they are talking about the game and not telling us to have a Budweiser, or talking about Springstein or hyping some ******ed reality show they have, ITS A BASEBALL GAME!!! Nothing ruins a sporting event more than it being covered by one of the big networks, and the sad thing is ESPN is catching up to them quick, its even getting hard to watch that now. I might just buy MLBRadio on the net next year and listen to the games, the telecasts are ridiculous
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