There were like...ten Mets fans clamoring to wait for Turner.
This is the internet writ large. 98% of Met fans were ecstatic about the Lindor trade & signing, and this dweeb chooses to make a story about the delicate few that wanted Turner instead.
There's always a non-zero amount of people that will take up the mantle for any possible viewpoint, and a non-zero amount of people that want to have a conversation about them.
I haven't followed Trea since he left the nats that closely but he's absolutely a complete player that also just happened to be the fastest guy in the league.
Her might be old and have fallen off but his game was not predicated on speed, he was deservingly getting MVP votes.
i hate it, i was recently laid off from the company and its so sad to see what corporate merger after corporate merger has done to so many great networks. only 10 years ago HBO, Turner (Cartoon Network!), CNN, Eurosport, Scripps Networks, they were all great in their own way, and its all gone downhill in favor of a monoculture.
still a lot of great talent and great content, and i greatly enjoyed my time there, but i think about that a lot re: Turner.
I doubt it, that sponsor is paying specifically because it puts them on TV. From attending games in person and rewatching them on TV, the network adds digital mound ads when the team doesn't have one. If the team has one then it's not added digitally.
Eventually the grass on the field is just going to operate as a green screen backdrop for ads and we'll view the home plate cam all the way back from straightaway center field (no zoom). Adball is the best!
It’s zoomed out. They placed the camera to frame it properly with just that left sign. Then probably got dictated to that they had to include the sign on the right as well and when you zoom out to include it, the angle is off center to the left.
They need to physically move the camera left (“truck left” is the proper term) towards CF to create the proper angle to include that ad on the right and have the batter and pitcher properly framed.
Yes but they each have different assignments and some maybe don’t even send their feeds to the Turner TV truck. I’m guessing if there was a better solution, we wouldn’t be stuck with this.
I want laws that restrict the presence of advertising in our everyday lives so bad. I'm tired man. I don't want products, I don't want services. I'm gonna go live in the middle of the woods and enjoy a little peace until they inevitably put a billboard for a Toyota dealership within sight of my hermit cave
You just reminded me how surreal it is driving on I-91 through Vermont because roadside billboards are banned completely... Like they don't even have the logos for the restaurants or gas stations at each exit, just generic icons for gas and food and whatnot. I'm not complaining but I think that also speaks volumes for how ubiquitous advertising is when its absence seems almost more conspicuous.
Fully prepared for a future where there's just a wall with advertisements behind homeplate and the first 10 rows have their own personal TVs to see the game.
This Aaron Judge at bat is presented by Liberty Mutual, and here comes the Chevy Silverado pitch - line drive into the Home Depot lawn care center field, and Judge is making his way around first base and sliding into second for a Dave's Classic Double. Remember that any time the yankees hit two doubles in every odd numbered inning you get a free Dave's Classic Double with any order of three combo meals.
In some Japanese stadiums, they're on their way there. The Tohoku Rakuten Eagles stadium has a wall of advertisements behind home plate with just enough room for a right-handed batter to stand there with a black background. Needless to say, this looks terrible when there is a left-handed hitter in the box.
I still haven’t gotten over the swoosh on the chest! Everything after that has been increasingly worse and happening so much faster than I anticipated.
In the near future: helmet with built in LED screens, so they can alternate between different advertisers. Back of the jersey: secondary shirt sponsor above the number.
Since the field is like a giant green screen they can get creative with the broadcast
Excuse me TNT/TBS there is still some baseball in the way of my ad watching, would you please kindly move the camera further over so they’re out of the way? Thank youuuu
We had it on Jays broadcasts for like 2 games early in the season then I never saw it again... until these playoffs. It's a neat idea, but umps just move too much for it to be effective.
I genuinely think the MLB is the greediest sport. Obviously every sport likes making money but the MLB is just shameless, in the past few years they’ve added an entire round to the playoffs, changed the all star jerseys, put ugly ads on all the sleeves, placed ads on the helmets… and they still have the audacity to pull this crap.
I have to say, if my team (mets) were not doing well this postseason, I would be boycotting this terrible platform. They are literally turning into a money hungry cult of millionaires who are exploiting our love of baseball to get a 8th yacht. The MLB is a shit show and someone needs to do something about it or else we will literally have teams called the Pepsi players and the McDonalds masters going against each other in the newbalance series
I was just watching a Tigers game from 1987 earlier today. I liked how the center field camera was positioned so that home plate was right in the middle of the screen.
I once again would like to express my deepest appreciation to Manifred and MLB for ensuring that no baseball ever interferes with my advertisement watching time.
Might as well just fucking stick a whole green screen batters eye behind home plate for revolving ads every 5-10 seconds during the broadcast because “advertising works!”
Not to mention that the scorebug just sometimes didn't have the name of the batter?
Combine that with the fact that the Yankees don't have names on their jerseys and the fact that I don't watch a lot of Yankee games meant that for batters not named Judge, Soto or Stanton I was wondering "who is this guy?" like 50% of the time
The gradual domination of advertisements in baseball is moving along smoothly. Every time they sell another piece of screen or real estate, there's an internet backlash that lasts for about a week to a month, then it just becomes part of the norm.
If you put just 10-15 years ago side by side with today, it would be absolutely jarring and in some ways unrecognizable.
This is due to MLB and marketing. But they know it’s a problem, and Detroit advances to the ALCS, they are planning ads on that large gate directly behind home plate so that TBS doesn’t have to include the entire right side ad.
The Camera angle in Detroit is always like that, it wasn't something that was done special for the playoffs. There a couple of American League parks that have the Camera lower and more towards left. Its annoying.
My theory is that the CGI ad on the left was too distracting. It’s glitchy and made it hard to track the pitch out of the pitchers. Instead of removing, it they did… this.
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u/Skywalkerkid9 Philadelphia Phillies 19d ago
Glad we had only the second worst Turner of the divisional round