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About 60 years ago, Mad Magazine, a magazine for kids interested in satire before they got to National Lampoon, invented a game called 43-Man Squamish.
Mad includes game charts depicting 43 players running in 43 different directions, and this sense of zany absurdity may have inspired the design of StatCast’s graphics, which are purchased by the networks and then carefully rendered to show the directions of 43 pitches and/or 43 balls hit in 43 directions — all for the viewer to examine, consider, and absorb in about eight seconds.
The Squamish 43 also lives on, and through that process, viewers and listeners can enjoy radio and television broadcasts where we are often reminded of the most storied team in sports history – the New York Yankees.
However, due to the greed, hubris, and negligence of Rob Manfred and team chairman Randy Levine, this goal has become impossible to achieve. The task is so cumbersome and complex that Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Sisyphus would rather take time off than attempt it.
To watch Yankees games on TV this season, again driven by financial greed, one must (almost always) purchase access to YES (which now airs far fewer games), Fox, FS1, ESPN, TNT, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Roku and the A, E, I, O, U and sometimes the Y networks, among others.
Announcers? Well, for the YES show alone, there’s Michael Kaye, Ryan Ruocco, David Cohen, Paul O’Neill, Todd Frazier, John Flaherty, Jeff Nelson, Joe Girardi, and one former Yankee player (whose name will be revealed later), please identify yourself.
this The only constant is Meredith Marakovitshe tried to decipher what Aaron Boone meant, but didn’t say anything worth hearing or repeating.
At least Transparent Diversity employees Carlos Beltran and Cameron Maybin are discernible professional communicators who were hired and assigned to us without the ability to communicate.
On the broadcast side, the only constants are Suzyn Waldman and listening to the games on WFAN.
Among other things, it spins its wheels and, in some cases, nails its tail on the minions.
Every day/night, people would guess who was sitting next to Waldman while she lazily looked at the sponsor’s “out-of-town scoreboard” and the endless, almost game-by-game tiny sponsorship payment – “Official Lucite Picture Frame of the New York Yankees.”
We have counted five newcomers to join Waldman this season, and at least a sixth will join next month.
As if the Yankees on radio and television had run out of bad ideas, Craig Caton has all but disappeared from TV and radio because Hired by Fox/FS1 — Fox was impressed by his resume, which included a stint at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after being convicted of fraud and theft — Planned to host three Yankees games will sit next to Waldman next month.
As WFAN producer Al Dukes said Speak angrily and bravelya betrayal of common decency on all sides, as Caton had mocked Waldman’s Yankees broadcasts on WFAN for more than a decade.
It’s not that she was immune to ridicule, but Caton was extremely sensitive to criticism of his own on-air obscenities and therefore often acted with cruelty, which is one of the keys to a successful radio host and the hallmark of a bully.
Ah, but we also digress when we regress. The bottom line on the most famously successful franchise in sports history is that the Yankees don’t give a shit about their fans.
Nelson would be better if he spoke less
I like former Yankee pitcher Jeff Nelson’s analysis best, whenever we can find and/or watch a Yankee telecast he’s in charge of. He gives us food for thought. The thing is, he continues to give us food when we’re no longer hungry.
He often makes the mistake of becoming Fox’s John Smoltz, who dissects every pitch, driving viewers away, and he often repeats his pitches, making the talk muffled and the audience sleepy.
Last weekend in Baltimore, a pitch that nearly hit Alex Verdugo in the head was what Nelson oddly called a “sinking fastball.”
That’s TV, Jeff, sometimes just let it be TV.
Thank you Bob Newhart for giving us laughs, real laughs, clean laughs, not those “Awww!” laughs that come after crude acts that are commercially obfuscated and sold as comedy.
Newhart, 94 years oldprovides ongoing proof that clean comedy is often funnier and more creative than fart noises.
I rediscovered Newhart’s slow-paced, blank-faced genius on YouTube, usually after noon on Sundays, to the recurring hollowness and fake laughter of the NFL Network’s pregame shows.
Speaking of unfunny comedians who rely on vulgarity for their performances, Kevin Hart, who for some superficial reason remains a fixture on sports telecasts, will perform and introduce the Olympics on NBC/Peacock, along with chief news anchor Lester Holt and Snoop Dogg, a gold medalist in drug arrests and weapons possession.
Meanwhile, the world has become what it has been allowed and even invited to be, and the Paris Olympics are likely to lose a lot just in hiring and deploying riot police and arson squads.
Russo downgraded to Stephen A.
Chris Russo went ballistic last week at calm and patient ESPN/SEC Network host Paul Finebaum. Why? Russo believes USC’s football program is stronger More than Finebaum imagined.
Russo and Stephen A. Smith play off each other as they both crave attention by calling out anything undeserving without changing anything.
Statistics show that the demand for ESPN has become so great that it is now heavily supporting WWE professional wrestling.
it Named Humble Joe Tessitto, who played dumb for two years—he just Acting Pretty dumb, right? — He’s the host of ESPN’s Monday Night Football and previously did the goofy play-by-play boxing commentary on ESPN Boxing.
The New York Times published an article last week about how news media can eliminate “fake news.”
Does that include the fake news story — the big lie — that Time magazine tennis reporter Ben Rosenberg spread on social media, claiming that ESPN tennis analyst Doug Adler had praised Venus Williams’ “guerrilla approach” to stealing the net but called her a “gorilla”?
Cowardly ESPN, fearing that the New York Times would never follow up on the obvious false information (lies) spread by its reporters, quickly believed this ridiculous fake news and fired Adler for being a racist, ruining his career, health, and reputation.
The New York Times has never suggested that it aided or abetted this hateful and harmful false news.
Yes, I will continue to fight, as I would any innocent movement sentenced to life in prison. I am ashamed.
Perhaps because Fox’s cameras and microphones were busy everywhere, John Smoltz was not bothered too much during the All-Star Game. He even handed in a nice statistic:
In 1989, he became the youngest pitcher to lose an All-Star Game, while Nolan Ryan was the oldest pitcher to win. The two were 20 years apart!
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