What's with all the dumb baseball commentary on television? - By Ben Mathis-Lilley - Slate Magazine

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Create The Caption #293
Published 10/13/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
... going to notice that I only play half a season every year."- Anon "The warning signs for the Dodgers really went off before Game 1 when Manny finished first in wind sprints."- Cason _______________________________________ Are you funny enough to create a caption for this photo of Shane Victorino and Russell Martin discussing the high and tight pitch from Hiroki Kuroda last night? Daily Links: Why Is Baseball Commentary So Dumb? (Slate) Someone Who Doesn't Enjoy Jesse Palmer's ...

Building the Perfect Highlights Show
Published 10/13/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
Over at Slate, Ben Mathis-Lilley explains why most football analysis seems so much smarter than most baseball analysis. He hits on a couple of good reasons, with the best -- contributed by Brian Powell of Awful Announcing -- being that, because there are more moving parts on any given football play, there are more opportunities for nuts-and-bolts analysis in football than in baseball: ...

Slate Hops On The Anti-Kruk Bandwagon
Published 10/14/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... ), Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilly admits that “Baseball Tonight” is the venue for postseason highlights, but advises that you watch with the volume turned down, “lest John Kruk pulverize the parts of your brain responsible for logical reasoning.” ...

Links: ‘87 VCR Basketball Board Game; R.I.P. Kevin Foster; Stokely Concussions
Published 10/14/2008 by Ryan Corazza at MOUTHPIECE Blog
... who once called Placido Polanco the toughest out in the American League (he isn’t) and said that Brett Myers’ arrest for hitting his wife in the face would “propel him to stand up and be the ace of [the Phillies'] staff” (it didn’t, which is probably a good thing). Last week, Kruk’s SportsCenter segment on the Tampa Bay Rays concluded with the meaningful observation that they are ‘a special team that can do special things.’” – ...

Bemoaning the state of baseball commentary
Published 10/14/2008 by Ben K. at River Avenue Blues » River Avenue Blues, A New York Yankees Blog
... Ben Mathis-Lilley over at Slate asks: What’s with all the dumb baseball commentary on television? While Mathis-Lilley has no good answer, he’s certainly not alone in wondering why. One can take only so much of Tim McCarver, Joe Morgan and John Kruk. ...

MLB needs a Bresh of Freath Air: Let's Go Rays!!
Published 10/15/2008 by I.M. Forme (itsmetsforme@gmail.com) at It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations
... No one is crediting my earlier diatribes against baseball journalists in particular as the worst of sports commentators, but at least some people are starting to get the idea. ...