ESPN plans seven-man announcing crew for Pirates-Dodgers game
By Dan Zinski
When ESPN broadcasts Sunday night’s Pirates-Dodgers game their on-air broadcast crew will include seven – count ’em seven – members. Not all jammed into the broadcast booth because that would be silly, but sprinkled around the ball park to give the fans different perspectives on the action.
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Because that’s what fans really want. More guys talking from more locations all around the ball park.
ESPN’s overkill crew will be put together as follows: Karl Ravech and Barry Larkin in the booth, Buster Olney from the press box, Eric Wedge behind home plate, Mark Mulder in the Pirates dugout, Aaron Boone in the Dodgers dugout and Doug Glanville in the right field pavilion.
You could watch that clusterbleep of morons, or you could find a stream of the Dodgers local broadcast and listen to Vin Scully call the game all by himself. That’s not even a choice. Seven dildos yammering from all over the ball park or Scully calling the game in his silken tones from his traditional perch.
ESPN, seriously, what are you trying to do? Create a new benchmark for the most annoying baseball broadcast of all-time? Stop it with this nonsense. Just give people what they want: a baseball game. Mix in a little analysis and some stats. Station some cute blonde in the stands to do little interviews.
Thank goodness for the mute button, is all I’m going to say.
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