Again, we were a bit lucky with today's telecast.
It was a different kind of luck than yesterday's telecast when we had a walk off hit to culminate our show.
Here is how today's luck was different.
In the open of the telecast, we developed a main theme and two sub themes for our show.
The subject of our main theme delivered and had a big game. The subjects of our two sub themes had excellent performances as well.
We wrapped up our telecast by revisiting the themes.
I'll explain in more detail.
The team has not been performing at the level that they could be and maybe are expected to be. We have been addressing the fact that maybe a strong pitching performance or a big offensive day by a position player might help jump start the club into performing better. This morning, the team signed a veteran player who had been recently released by another Major League club. The first part of our on-camera standup at the beginning of the telecast, we talked about the new player with a shot of him. It was stated that this is a veteran player who is a welcome addition to the ballclub.
This established the main theme of our show.
The two sub themes that we explored in our open were: the starting pitcher has been struggling and the team could use a good performance by him and secondly, the rookie left fielder has been having a great couple of weeks at the plate and it would be nice if he could keep up the pace.
After the first break and after the "sold" features, (line up, pitcher, defense) we showed the newest member of the team thus solidifying the theme for the telecast.
This is now where it is nice to be lucky.
The player who we have identified as the main theme of our show (there usually is a main theme and many sub themes in each telecast) came through and had a huge game. His first at bat he singled and stole second and his second at bat he hit a home run. Not only did this player have a strong performance, his play seemed to invigorate the rest of the club. They scored eleven runs in a rout and hit six home runs in the process.
Our sub themes came through as well.
The starting pitcher pitched well and got the win. He struggled a bit with two home runs against but this only strengthened our sub theme where we stated he was struggling and needed a good performance to help the team. He did struggle a bit but overall pitched very well.
And, the rookie left fielder had two hits including a home run continuing his strong play.
A standard practice in a telecast is this:
Establish themes.
Revisit themes throughout telecast.
Wrap up themes at end of telecast.
It is not often that all the themes that are established in a game "open" all play out as the highlights of a game/telecast, but it happened for us today.
Lucky us!