Could this help baseball?
- Thread starter Sportsrmylife
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Love it.
NASCAR has done something similar in recent years with racing crews miked up.
Would love to hear a jockey thinking aloud about his strategy during the running of a horse race.
NASCAR has done something similar in recent years with racing crews miked up.
Would love to hear a jockey thinking aloud about his strategy during the running of a horse race.
Sportsrmylife
EOG Master
Let up a MLB Premium channel where they don't bleep out players swearing and I'm in. Of course the N word would have to be deleted.
I'd enjoy hearing managers and umpires bark back at each other
Jomboy media has some great youtube vids with some of these meetings. no idea where they find the sound bits.
I'd enjoy hearing managers and umpires bark back at each other
Jomboy media has some great youtube vids with some of these meetings. no idea where they find the sound bits.
unluckysob
EOG Dedicated
XFL.
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
I'm very out of touch here, what help does baseball need?
Sportsrmylife
EOG Master
to get the younger fan base.
baseball is a very "boring" "slow action sport" that has a ton of dead time. micing up athletes to talk and offer their thoughts between pitches is going to make the game more interesting.
I'd love to be able to hear a starting pitcher talk to himself on how he wants to attack a hitter, or maybe a pitcher/catcher conference and what they want to do in this situation.
FairWarning
Bells Beer Connoisseur
If they are not playing it as a kid, I don’t see many watching it as an adult. How many pickup games do you see? We used to have then every weeks. The kids are into soccer, hoops, and e-sports.
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
I wanna say "Yes" but it is one thing to do this in a MLBX or All-Star game where things are lot looser. Can't see this being done in September when Team A is fighting for a playoff spot and needs to focus on everything. I do agree with Sport on a Premium channel where anything can happen but not sure the players would be happy with that because the language used in dugouts is more NC-17 than G-rated.
Sportsrmylife
EOG Master
the reason we don't see "pickup games" anymore is due to too much organized baseball at younger and younger ages. They practice 2-3 a week then play tournaments on the weekend which could be 2-5 games.
kids have baseball thrown down their throats so they don't play it when they are away from it.
youth believe that sports are only run by adults on an actual baseball field. they don't know you can make a baseball field in some park by using a hat for bases with pitcher's hand as the first basemen.
adults who under achieved in their own playing careers are killing the love of the sport for kids. they see kids that love baseball and simply want to push and push and push until they suck all that love out of the kid.
Sportsrmylife
EOG Master
I do like what they did with Rizzo. It was a one at bat mic up situation. Could be something that happens early in the game. Then all the mics come off after the 5th inning.
More in game interviews with players after big moments. Big 3 run homer get a quick 30 sec interview with them.
not everybody will do this but the ones that do embrace this are going to realize that advertising chances become more available to them as they present their personality.
WildBill
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Yeah such a limited situation it would work, no one will say much in regular season no matter how early it is.
This stuff would appeal to fans no doubt. Think of how popular $17m man Tony Romo is. He's known for precisely this, saying what the QB is probably thinking at the moment of the snap. He's getting paid so much I bet a new generation of analysts are going to be born thinking I can do that. It could get to be overkill though if every broadcast just becomes that.
This stuff would appeal to fans no doubt. Think of how popular $17m man Tony Romo is. He's known for precisely this, saying what the QB is probably thinking at the moment of the snap. He's getting paid so much I bet a new generation of analysts are going to be born thinking I can do that. It could get to be overkill though if every broadcast just becomes that.
WildBill
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Agree on this. I bet a team like the A's will come along soon and exploit this obsession, rounding up all the pitchers with below average velocity but sharp minds on how to use the off speed pitches. I know scouts still talk about catcher game calling skills on occasion, but it seems to me some sharp analytical kid with just average baseball skills could be a huge asset as a catcher to teams, kind of the modern day light-hitting, but run saving shortstop we used to see decades ago.
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
Right - key word "Thinking" - not exactly what he is thinking and while I know we can hear the cadence what happened with Rizzo would be like miking the QB in the huddle......something more XFL than NFL