April 13, 2008
Top of the 9th
We were out at dinner tonight and sitting at the bar as the Red Sox game was finishing up. It had been a long rain delayed game.
The Yankees were up to bat - Pappelbon was pitching. Sox were up 4-3. On the Yankees, there were 2 down and 2 strikes on the third hitter of the inning.
Bam!
Since I know there are people who don't like sports - I put the rest below the fold so they may ignore it.
Fox switched over to NASCAR!!!! In between pitches!!!
There was no crawl that I saw saying anything about this and as we were in a bar there was no sound. How farookin' stupid is that.
Turns out they had switched the game over to FX channel so they could show a NASCAR race. Everyone at the bar was outraged. We never did find out about the switch - to us it looked like they jumped directly to NASCAR and dropped the game completely. We all thought the televisions had mysteriously changed channels. It was almost as if they said "Okay, time's up now we change over."
I'm sorry, which director got dropped on his head as a baby and decided this would be a good thing to do?
The game was in progress - not only in progress, but as I said above, in between pitches! Stations used to do this with football games years ago - I thought they had learned their lesson and gotten over that.
IF the first game runs over, start the second program on FX and switch THAT one over when the game ends. I find it incomprehensible this idiocy. If there had been a break in the action that would be different. A change of inning - even a change of pitcher. But to switch between one pitch and the next, at the end of the game, with the game on the line... insanity.
I knew Fox wasn't that great when it comes to sports - but this was simply atrocious. Why do they say they'll carry baseball if they want to pull stunts like this? There's no point. I will be avoiding sports coverage on Fox whenever possible.
They have now managed to put the "why bother" into watching any sports on their channel.
The Yankees were up to bat - Pappelbon was pitching. Sox were up 4-3. On the Yankees, there were 2 down and 2 strikes on the third hitter of the inning.
Bam!
Since I know there are people who don't like sports - I put the rest below the fold so they may ignore it.
Fox switched over to NASCAR!!!! In between pitches!!!
There was no crawl that I saw saying anything about this and as we were in a bar there was no sound. How farookin' stupid is that.
Turns out they had switched the game over to FX channel so they could show a NASCAR race. Everyone at the bar was outraged. We never did find out about the switch - to us it looked like they jumped directly to NASCAR and dropped the game completely. We all thought the televisions had mysteriously changed channels. It was almost as if they said "Okay, time's up now we change over."
I'm sorry, which director got dropped on his head as a baby and decided this would be a good thing to do?
The game was in progress - not only in progress, but as I said above, in between pitches! Stations used to do this with football games years ago - I thought they had learned their lesson and gotten over that.
IF the first game runs over, start the second program on FX and switch THAT one over when the game ends. I find it incomprehensible this idiocy. If there had been a break in the action that would be different. A change of inning - even a change of pitcher. But to switch between one pitch and the next, at the end of the game, with the game on the line... insanity.
I knew Fox wasn't that great when it comes to sports - but this was simply atrocious. Why do they say they'll carry baseball if they want to pull stunts like this? There's no point. I will be avoiding sports coverage on Fox whenever possible.
They have now managed to put the "why bother" into watching any sports on their channel.
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Oh, yeah? There I was, minding my own business, watching the scheduled pre race show on Fox when all of a sudden, BAM, they switched over to some kind of game between two sets of hispanic indentured servants belonging to a couple of northeast plantations.
And then we missed the green flag.
Sorry, pal, the NASCAR race was scheduled then, the beisball announcers kept on saying that they were switching to FX. Don't blame the network for the bar owner being to dumb for closed captioning.
Far more people in the US care about NASCAR than two northeast baseball teams.
And then we missed the green flag.
Sorry, pal, the NASCAR race was scheduled then, the beisball announcers kept on saying that they were switching to FX. Don't blame the network for the bar owner being to dumb for closed captioning.
Far more people in the US care about NASCAR than two northeast baseball teams.
Posted by: Peter at April 13, 2008 11:38 AM (vmEPS)
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No - they did these switches before last year during the playoffs when they "over scheduled" and 2 games were on at the same time. They put a notice on the screen - not just the announcer babble to let people know. And they didn't switch in mid pitch - they switched at breaks or started the new game on the other station. Because I was watching and I was looking for the games they had switched to other stations.
BTW - I think Pappelbon, Pedroia, Becket, not to mention Matsuzaka among others will be very interested to find out that they are "hispanic indentured servants" who knew?
And I really don't give a flying rats ass how popular NASCAR is - I would be just as annoyed with them if NASCAR was on, came to the final lap with 2 cars duking it out for a photo finish and then BAM - they switched it to another station to finish that race while they start a baseball game.
It's sheer idiocy in programing. They will be switching one or the other - so the CURRENT program has the "right of way" with the new one coming in after the current program finishes or comes to a "commercial break in the action".
BTW - I think Pappelbon, Pedroia, Becket, not to mention Matsuzaka among others will be very interested to find out that they are "hispanic indentured servants" who knew?
And I really don't give a flying rats ass how popular NASCAR is - I would be just as annoyed with them if NASCAR was on, came to the final lap with 2 cars duking it out for a photo finish and then BAM - they switched it to another station to finish that race while they start a baseball game.
It's sheer idiocy in programing. They will be switching one or the other - so the CURRENT program has the "right of way" with the new one coming in after the current program finishes or comes to a "commercial break in the action".
Posted by: Teresa at April 13, 2008 12:20 PM (rVIv9)
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Interesting... Here in the midwest (Chicago market) I saw the full end of the game.
After it ended, there was a quick blurb in text on the screen saying what they'd be returning to, for their East-coast, Midwest, and West-coast markets. I didn't pay too much attention to it at the time, as I was turning the TV off anyway. I'm sure if that bit had been shown on the East-coast, folks would've caught it.
(Extra bizarre to think that Mid-west folks saw more of the game than the East coast market.)
Posted by: Allan at April 14, 2008 04:36 PM (YWsCw)
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LOL - well that figures! The area of the country that would have far less of an interest gets the whole game without interruption. Gotta love it.
Posted by: Teresa at April 14, 2008 09:26 PM (rVIv9)
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