We did not televise this weekend because Saturday was the Fox Baseball Game of the Week and Sunday was ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.
Two days off at the end of the first month of the season is a good time for all of us to recharge our batteries before the real grind of the season is upon us.
Unfortunately, a tragedy occurred on Saturday night that sent us all for a loop. A member of the Cardinals’ ball club was killed in a car accident.
The members of our TV production staff are included in the traveling party of the St. Louis Cardinals. We fly on the same charter and we stay in the same hotel. There are four members of the TV crew who spend almost every day together between March (spring training) and September. During this time, a bond develops between the four of us that is similar to the bond of a family. Away from the TV truck we will have lunch or dinner and after telecasts we enjoy beers together. The better the relationship a TV production team has away from the TV truck, the better the product this team will produce. There are certainly good days and bad days in this type of relationship, but friendships that are developed in this scenario are integral to the success of the telecast.
The bond that the four of us have is akin to the bond that a Major League baseball club develops during the course of a season.
The news of the tragedy stunned our TV production team and we could only imagine the devastating effect this news must have on the baseball team.
Flying on the team charter to Milwaukee was a sad, somber experience.
You could have heard a pin drop.
During the six months of the regular season, we spend much of the time interacting with front office personnel, clubhouse crew, manager, coaches, and players. Relationships are developed and friendships are made.
Preparing for the first telecast since the death of the Cardinals player and teammate proved to be one of the most difficult tasks of our careers.
For our opening two-part segment, we decided to scale down the audio and video hoping to minimize the “flash” our open segments usually provide.
This was a rare day where the game was secondary and the pain was obvious.
The most telling moments of the telecast were shots of the players’ jersey hanging in the bullpen and the dugout.
Early in the telecast, I noticed how quiet the TV truck was.
Usually the noise in the truck sounds like mayhem. The Producer is giving commands, the Director is “cutting” cameras, graphics and score box emit their sounds, and the audio from the play by play announcer and color analyst resound from the main speaker in the production side of the mobile unit.
Yesterday the truck had an eerie quiet to it.
It sure would be nice to have a couple of days off.
Two days off at the end of the first month of the season is a good time for all of us to recharge our batteries before the real grind of the season is upon us.
Unfortunately, a tragedy occurred on Saturday night that sent us all for a loop. A member of the Cardinals’ ball club was killed in a car accident.
The members of our TV production staff are included in the traveling party of the St. Louis Cardinals. We fly on the same charter and we stay in the same hotel. There are four members of the TV crew who spend almost every day together between March (spring training) and September. During this time, a bond develops between the four of us that is similar to the bond of a family. Away from the TV truck we will have lunch or dinner and after telecasts we enjoy beers together. The better the relationship a TV production team has away from the TV truck, the better the product this team will produce. There are certainly good days and bad days in this type of relationship, but friendships that are developed in this scenario are integral to the success of the telecast.
The bond that the four of us have is akin to the bond that a Major League baseball club develops during the course of a season.
The news of the tragedy stunned our TV production team and we could only imagine the devastating effect this news must have on the baseball team.
Flying on the team charter to Milwaukee was a sad, somber experience.
You could have heard a pin drop.
During the six months of the regular season, we spend much of the time interacting with front office personnel, clubhouse crew, manager, coaches, and players. Relationships are developed and friendships are made.
Preparing for the first telecast since the death of the Cardinals player and teammate proved to be one of the most difficult tasks of our careers.
For our opening two-part segment, we decided to scale down the audio and video hoping to minimize the “flash” our open segments usually provide.
This was a rare day where the game was secondary and the pain was obvious.
The most telling moments of the telecast were shots of the players’ jersey hanging in the bullpen and the dugout.
Early in the telecast, I noticed how quiet the TV truck was.
Usually the noise in the truck sounds like mayhem. The Producer is giving commands, the Director is “cutting” cameras, graphics and score box emit their sounds, and the audio from the play by play announcer and color analyst resound from the main speaker in the production side of the mobile unit.
Yesterday the truck had an eerie quiet to it.
It sure would be nice to have a couple of days off.
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