This was an unusual telecast.
This was one of those rare telecasts, where no matter what happens, you will not get it right.
The three themes we established in our open stand-up did not follow through.
We highlighted the hottest player on the team in segment one and he went 0 – 3. Theme one was “down the drain.”
The second theme, established in the opening segments of our telecast, dealt with the closer role of the team. The current closer was injured and our theme dealt with the possible replacements for that role. The final score was 13 – 1 in favor of the home team and, therefore, the closer role was never a factor.
The third theme we tried to establish concerned the starting pitcher who, despite being a rookie, showed much promise and could prove to be an important cog for the club as the season wound down towards the playoffs.
He had the shortest outing of his career.
Was this three up and three down for the telecast? Had we struck out? Was the value of this particular telecast over?
Not.
The score was 7 – 1 after three innings, 11 – 1 after six innings, and it ended 13 – 1.
There was not one moment of the telecast that worked. There was not one memorable second of this telecast.
Wrong.
During the telecast, video highlights from the offense of the winning club were aired, and for the losing club in a 13 – 1 game, these highlights are truly “offensive”. Not a memorable telecast for the fan of the losing team.
Thank goodness for the television baseball gods.
Tonight was the night that, because we were on the road, the annual camp-out at the home ballpark occurred. We had a video feed of the campers in the home ballpark down- linked to our truck and we interspersed shots of the campers in the home ballpark with our game coverage.
These shots provided us with a pleasant diversion from the lousy baseball game that we televised.
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