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Bidding a fond farewell ...
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...baseball fan in the 1970s, here's how it worked ... Most of the games weren't on television, so we would listen on the radio. But of course that wasn't enough. If our team...
Blog | November 03, 2009Revisiting that pesky TV camera
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...the outfield landscape at Citizens Bank Park changed. Major League Baseball and FOX Sports, owners of the television camera that Rodriguez hit with his fourth-inning homer in Game 3 of the World Series, elected...
Blog | November 02, 2009Umpiring is better ... but not better enough
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...run across this, from Bill James' notes (subscription) upon recently watching a 1974 World Series game on TV: 2. The umpiring is bad, and the announcers don't say anything about it. I would speculate...
Blog | November 02, 2009Kneejerk Reactions: Game 3
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...outings. Blown Call: Well, maybe. Rodriguez's long fly in the fourth inning certainly did hit a television camera, and that camera certainly was above the right-field fence. But if the baseball hadn't...
Blog | November 01, 2009Friday Filberts
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...impression that she had no idea who she was talking to.) * You didn't see it on TV, so here's the guy who made a mockery of those silly fake rocks in Anaheim (and...
Blog | October 23, 2009Complaining about November baseball
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...fans are watching! Well, which is it? More, or fewer? According to Major League Baseball, the postseason TV ratings are up 13 percent this October. As these things go, 13 percent is fairly massive increase...
Blog | October 22, 2009Second-guessing Girardi
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...K/9) this year? I mention this as it seems that Girardi forgot. My yelling through the TV didn't make it to Anaheim in time. So rather than let him continue ... after all, it...
Blog | October 20, 2009Cubs may lose Brenly, but not to Astros
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...obviously is a guy who know the NL Central, having broadcast the last four seasons for Cubs television. What's more, his World Series came with a roster of largely veteran players, which is exactly...
Blog | October 15, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Scott Podsednik ... be very, very afraid. • Finally, via Sports Business Journal we've got local TV ratings for this season's baseball broadcasts. They're not aggregated, but it looks to...
Blog | October 14, 2009Joba seals Division Series fate
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...to see Chamberlain anywhere near the Detroit Tigers. The Yankees might let him watch the games on TV ... but then again they might not. Chamberlain's got a 4.78 ERA this season. You...
Blog | October 01, 2009Attendance down, but not Selig's spirits
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...invented. As I've written before, the true test of baseball interest this season is local TV ratings; if the fans who aren't showing up at the ballpark are instead watching at...
Blog | September 30, 2009'Disco' Hayes questions the CW
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...exactly the same defensive abilities. I honestly have not watched a single nine inning MLB game on TV yet this year (that's sad, I know...what kind of baseball fan have I become...
Blog | September 23, 2009Was it a strike, or wasn't it?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...strike zone," Reed said of the pitch to Green, referring to the telestrator box used on television replays. "That said it was a strike -- it was a pitch I thought was borderline. The...
Blog | September 18, 2009Should Cubs trade nostalgia for wins?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...beam on winning. But given all the advantages the Cubs enjoy -- including a huge market, a national television network, and a beloved ballpark -- there should plenty of room for winning and nostalgia. Because there are...
Blog | September 15, 2009Economy hits minors, too
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...make hardly a ripple. I figured attendance would be down a little in the majors, but that TV ratings would hold steady (at worst) and so would minor-league attendance. About the first of those...
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