LDS TV Coverage

I sent an e-mail to TBS and left a message at the MLB Commissioner's office expressing my disappointment.

I'm sure they'll get right back to me!

I have no problem with it at all---who needs HD?

IMO, once you've seen baseball in HD, you simply cannot have anything less...other than actually being there.

BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRing.

What's boring? The games or this conversation!

When did the Mormon church start covering baseball?

I actually watched the Mets last 3 games wearing 3D glasses - and looking through a prism.

It still didnt help.

Try watching a solar eclipse through binoculars...that should render you immune from seeing any future collapses of your dear Metsies!

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Originally posted by TG:
When did the Mormon church start covering baseball?

Why? Did the Haitians quit covering them?

Woody - I tried that.

Somehow - I still got the reflection of Glavine getting pounded into the earth.

Ouch.

Announcers, my husband said he could do a better job
and although I kept quiet he was RIGHT!

iitg,
Time heals all wounds! You'll be fine.

My husband is so disappointed in the coverage that he keeps sending emails to the MLB.

Boy do we miss ESPN, Fox and the other 3 major networks! One good thing - our cable network started carrying T. B. S. in HD tonight! Yeah! Once you start watching sports on HD, you can't go back - it's awesome!

I think Steve Stone is far and away better than say, Joe Morgan at doing color. I don't care about the HD thing. Actually, TBS is available in HD on certain cable systems so it's really a problem with your cable provider, not the network. Get on them.

That's good to know. I have Dish Network.

I'll check with them.

But I am surprised, that the channel is usually promoting that this program is in HD and they didn't yesterday.

Oh well, Red Sox won...all is well!

DirecTV has the Red Sox game in HD somewhere around channel 95.

I actually enjoyed the lack of a rambling announcer. It's not about them, it's about the game. Sometimes I think Buck, McCarver, Morgan, Miller, etc. tend to forget that. They seem to feel the need to fill every second of airtime with mindless babble.

There is quite a little buzz in Chicagoland because the games are ONLY on cable. Some of the electronic big box stores have lent large screen TVs to a number of churches and community centers which have opened their doors to show the games because, believe it or not, there are a bunch of people without cable. *gasp*

In the past, when a big game was on ESPN the local station, WGN, would be able to broadcast it. Not with TBS.

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Originally posted by PopTime:
I think Steve Stone is far and away better than say, Joe Morgan at doing color.

He da' man!
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I have no problem with the coverage at all...of course, I have the HD feed on DirecTv. Anytime I can watch playoff baseball without listening to Tim Effing McCarver is a good thing.

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without listening to Tim Effing McCarver is a good thing.

Tim's main problem is he feels he has to comment on everything and simply talks too much imho. I don't care for Joe Morgan either.

I have enjoyed Cal Ripken's commentary. He has a pleasant voice and doesn't try to come off as a know-it-all. It would be nice to hear him in the TV booth.

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Anytime I can watch playoff baseball without listening to Tim Effing McCarver is a good thing.

I like Ripken's commentary, too. Frank Thomas seems a little nervous, but hopefully will get better. Gotta admit I have a soft spot for TBS, being originally from the Atlanta area. Reminds me of home.

You're obviously all misinformed. Nobody on the planet knows more about the game than Tim Effing McCarver . We are all so fortunate that he shares....and shares....and shares.....and shares.

And don't get me started on HallofFameJoe Morgan.

Anybody remember this?
He's Deion, He's Outta Control

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Originally posted by Orlando:
You're obviously all misinformed. Nobody on the planet knows more about the game than Tim Effing McCarver . We are all so fortunate that he shares....and shares....and shares.....and shares.

And don't get me started on HallofFameJoe Morgan.

That pair is ok in small does much less than 3.5 hour a day. As former catchers like to do, McCarver has an annoying habit of calling 2-1, 2-2 pitches from the booth, with uncanny inability.

I really feel sorry for all of you. I just moved Tuesday and had no cable at all until this morning.

Finally found the 5 inch black and white battery powered around 10pm and had to run to the store for C cells to watch the news to see what happened yesterday.

Tonight I will appreciate Morgan, McCarver or whoever I get after watching ND (no definition) TV.

We tend to think everyone has cable (soon we will think everyone has HD). Two years ago, Minneapolis had 52% penetration with cable/dish, meaning that 48% of households still had antennas. Minneapolis is not an anomoly either, just happens to be a big market example I pulled from remembering my files.

And I am in the minority, but don't care for Jon Miller more than Morgan. Miller makes things up to make him sound like a baseball insider...like nicknames for players...i.e. Tadahito Iguchi, he spent a whole game calling him Tada...a nickname that no one has ever used for him. I don't need a broadcaster telling me when I should be offended, or upset, or proud...

They do things a little differently up there in the Twin Cities...take this guy for example...I'm sure he's getting pretty good reception...and he's all set for fondue after the game!

I'll take the hum-drum announcing of Stone etc ANY DAY over Miller/Morgan. I actually have to turn off the volume when those two are "announcing". On and on and on.....they go about all things NOT going on in the game in front of them. (Did you know that Joe Morgan is in the HOF?!!!!!!)

Ah, Dad04, but when Timmy is wrong about the pitch thrown (at least on those pitches he doesn't bs by simply misidentifying), don't forget his amazing ability to spin the selection back to I-knew-that-but-didn't-have-time-to-say-it.

The National Announcers seem to suffer from their employers' lack of foresight. Apparently, researchers are not employed (or eager interns, even) to give the on-air people some flippin' background on the players and teams involved. ESPN (Epstein-Steinbrenner Promotional Network), for example, MAY know those two clubs like a fan, but it's irritating to hear them call a Big Game as if they've heard of a team, but never actually seen them play.

At times Timm Mc is all wet in his analysis. I think my dog actually watches more of the game than John Miller. My dog doesn't try to bluff his way through chatting about it though.

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Originally posted by TRhit:
I have no problem with it at all---who needs HD?

Do I hear a call for the radio to make a return? It sure makes the time pass when you are driving down the road.

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At times Timm Mc is all wet in his analysis.

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Originally posted by cbg:
Do I hear a call for the radio to make a return? It sure makes the time pass when you are driving down the road.

You're right cbg...a good game on the radio would break up the monotony.

cbg, radio never went away --- a whole lotta people in STL put the game on the TV with the sound off and listen to Shannon instead.

I prefer most radio announcers, they're not as lazy as the TV guys --- they'll tell you how the field is playing a hitter or what kind of lead a guy is taking; the TV announcers just blather as you have a "picture"....that usually comes down to close-ups of the pitcher, the hitter, random shots of dugouts and fans, then the shot over the pitcher's shoulder. We can have HD....but lost split screen????

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
They do things a little differently up there in the Twin Cities...take this guy for example...I'm sure he's getting pretty good reception...and he's all set for fondue after the game!

I have to assume there is some recurring monthly subscription that goes with that website you got that picture from...

Did someone say Fondue?
Yum!

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Originally posted by CPLZ:
I have to assume there is some recurring monthly subscription that goes with that website you got that picture from...

I dunno'...should I check with Disney?

Come to think of it, I DID have an issue with Stone saying that Beckett's performance is reminiscent of Greg Maddux. Huh? Beckett was touching 98 MPH with his fastball. Did Maddux's FB ever touch 85? He may have been referring to a specific performance, if he was he never said what that performance was.

If you have Cox Digital Cable its on HD