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Ugh, this is going to be one of those "look how hip and cool we are!" broadcasts like the Youtube one where they struggle to sound relevant and attract a young audience through ways that aren't just "be a professional and call a good baseball game."

EDIT: Why is the on-field reporter wearing headphones while she files her report?
 
The Nemesis said:
Ugh, this is going to be one of those "look how hip and cool we are!" broadcasts like the Youtube one where they struggle to sound relevant and attract a young audience through ways that aren't just "be a professional and call a good baseball game."

EDIT: Why is the on-field reporter wearing headphones while she files her report?
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Showing off Apple Products.
 
Oh god, enough already.

I love video games. I love MLB the show. That's in my wheelhouse.

But I do not need them discussing player ratings of the guys in this game as if it's some serious barstool debate topic.

JUST CALL THE f***ING BASEBALL GAME!
 
If this is Apple's attempt to demonstrate their deservedness to broadcast more baseball they're doing a poor job of it. The production value is bush league and the commentators are tremendously unpolished and awkward.

I don't understand spending the money they would've had to spend on the rights and being OK with how rough and cringey this is.
 
I hate this broadcast. Guys talking about everything EXCEPT for the game, and they even showed highlights from other games while a scoring playwas happening and relegated that scoring play to a small box off to the side with no play by play. Really amateurish.
 
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Is it though?
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Yes. That, terrible star wars references, context-free probabilities in the corner masquerading as actual statistical analysis, and things happening when the broadcast is focused on inane things not relating to the game at hand are all vitally important parts of giving fans the best possible experience.
 
"Rengifo hustling out of the box turned that into 2, see he's hustling around 1st(as we get a shot of him still near home plate), actually he's kind of going slow there, *cuts to Tapia butchering the play*, yeah he probably would have got there anyway, had he hustled he might have actually gotten to 3rd, which shows while hustling like he did matters so much"

Ummmmm, what?????
 
Bring back youtube broadcasts

There's a thing called RBI probability? Apparently it's 19% here

Can't wait for xRBI. If his RBI probability is 17% and you factor in the odds of a HR bringing 2 RBI's it would probably be around 0.2 xRBI?
 
Canada4Gold said:
Bring back youtube broadcasts

There's a thing called RBI probability? Apparently it's 19% here

Can't wait for xRBI. If his RBI probability is 17% and you factor in the odds of a HR bringing 2 RBI's it would probably be around 0.2 xRBI?
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The stupid thing is that the probabilities they're giving don't seem to scale in line with what you might expect. Like the count gets worse but the probability goes up. Which leads me to believe it's not a real probability but rather something like a historical success rate for that player given the context of the situation (ie how well he hits in an 0-1 count with a runner on 2nd vs an 0-2 count in the same situation.) which is NOT probability.
 
Here's a good example.

Lourdes on 0-0 count, probability to reach base: 33%
0-1 count: 19%
0-2 count: 23%
1-2 count: Don't remember the number but it went down again.

How are you more likely to reach base from 0-2 than 0-1, but then you get a ball and improve the count in your favor and the % goes down again?

It has to be Gurriel's career averages from various counts instead of a real "probability".

This is the kind of stupid fake-stats broadcast that will give anti-stats people ammuntion to show how stupid statistics are even though the bad "stats" are the fault of terrible people and not representative of statistics on the whole.

I'd be like judging the entire Jays lineup on Tapia's performance.
 
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pretty bad, might not be quite as bad as that youtube broadcast but this is just as horrible.

cutting to random shit and missing key moments of the game
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The youtube broadcast had awful commentary but the visuals and stats and whatever were fine (and when stats were used, at least by that one commentator, Sarah Langs I think? they were fine too)

This one is just bad from top to bottom. I'm sure some people are going to like the minimalist graphics package but the production is just total amateur hour.

Case in point here: This is their own broadcast presumably with their own camera crews and producers and whatever. It's not them just talking over another team's video feed. And yet they can't even time up the commercial break cuts so that the commentary guy can finish his line heading into the break before he gets cut off. And that's happened multiple times so far.
 
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