Fox Network can’t even get baseball right
President Obama throws out the first pitch at the Major League of Baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis (Morry Gash-Pool/Getty)
It’s not enough that Fox tortures baseball fans with the presence of Tim McCarver in the booth. Oh no. Fox reached a new low in their comically, tragically, completely failed coverage of President Obama’s first pitch at the All-Star game.
It started off well. The President jogged out to the mound from the dugout in a sweet White Sox warm up jacket. (I love that he’s a Sox fan. And a Bears fan. I love it because I hate politicians who try to pander to sports fans by flying team colors wherever they might be campaigning. Sports fans respect loyalty above all and there are rules of fandom. Barack Obama seems to know this. He knows that one cannot root for both the Bears and the Packers, the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Celtics and the Lakers, and the Flyers and the Penguins. It’s pretty simple. And I dig that he gets it.)
It all went down the crapper after that. At the windup, we could see Albert Pujols behind the plate, but then, as Obama let go of the pitch, the camera angle shifted, to more center on him on the mound, I suppose. While generally I would think it is probably a good idea to focus in on the leader of the free world, in this case, um, excuse me fellas, we couldn’t see the pitch cross the plate!
I repeat, I was unable to see the pitch cross the plate. Could not see it.
It looked like it was on its way to crossing the plate. It looked like it was going to make it to Pujols’ glove on the fly. And yet, I do not know this. Why? How can a baseball production crew screw this up? They’ve got one stinking job to do and they muffed it.
Darn. And I was gonna base my 2012 vote on that pitch.
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I noticed the same thing. You would think with the hundreds of pitches they film per game it would be no problem….
Yeah – Fox and ESPN seem to be locked in mortal battle to decide which network will eventually drive me to forsake sports, or possibly just take my own life to avoid these terrible networks all around.
“Eeee-diots!!!” We were screaming at the TV last night over this. Fox took such painstaking care to shoot Obama everywhere else but blew the money shot. And no second camera? I smell a vast right-wing conspiracy!!!
I believe that local networks, despite the smaller budgets and fewer machines that go “boop” do a better job than the networks. Part of it is familiarity, so it makes sense. A St. Louis crew would know every nook and cranny of that ballpark, so would think they’d have a decided advantage. In this case, though, no excuses for Fox. Nothing obscures home plate from the pitcher’s mound. It’s inexplicable and inexcusable.
But what do you expect from the network that brings us that stupid jumping, transformers kinda robot thing during NFL games?
Follow my logic: Fox purposely missed the shot so no one would see Obama in a less than super-human moment. This allows the worship to continue, which means Fox can continue to bash the aforementioned worship and worshippers, thus securing the Fox ranting = ratings formula.
It was brilliant, really.
I think they did that on purpose. The media will do anything to make sure nothing bad about Obama is ever allowed on the air and this is just another case of it. They didn’t want us to see if he missed the plate.
Oh and Joe Buck is just as annoying as Mccarver. Mcarver is slightly biased Buck is completely biased.