Today we pause to thank TBS for allowing us some brief, apparently live, moments of the final game of Thursday’s Yankees-Guardians playoff game.
Until those brief final moments, it was palpable — whatever that means — whether TBS had any idea what was happening on the field, as the national network was immersed in clearing the stands to provide close-up views of the fans. many with their eyes closed, deep in spiritual devotion praying or at least meditating on behalf of the team in their chosen religion.
Pick a praying fan! Pick 10! TBS found results to choose from!
Yes, standard, live sports television with major events of the 21st century. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing it as a mindless habit, like sitting on a bench holding a “Wet Paint” sign just because.
Gaming networks buy for billions of dollars to be televised exclusively? No!
Show everyone else in the park seeing what we tuned in to see. Indiscriminately use all the TV cameras we’ve brought along to fractionalize your attention! Best seat in the house? According to the pre-game design, it is no longer in your house.
But sports and TV now meet at the corner of Discomfort and Bloat.
Thursday’s wild finish featured three current or former closers, rather than the standard two, regardless of how the designated eighth inning pitched.
Now Yanks closer Luke Weaver and former closer Clay Holmes allowed four hits, one home run each.
Cleveland Lights closer Emmanuel Clase, brought in early as a desperation case, allowed three hits, two of them home runs. Thus, another record for a single postseason game: Three “hitters”, all allowed at least one home run.
Cleveland eventually sent in Pedro Avila, the official winner. He allowed two walks in his inning. He had replaced Andrew Walters, who had allowed no base runners and hit Juan Soto, so Walters had to leave.
But that is another matter. Mickey Mantle’s World Series records and totals have all been erased, according to MLB’s buzzing television partners, from what 21st century players have compiled starting with the wild card games!
Or as an ESPN graphic once read, Bobby Thomson pitched “to win the 1951 NLCS.”
Thursday’s Yanks-Guardian game, at least what we were allowed to see of it, was one for the ages. So was the TV broadcast: The Stone Age.
You can’t avoid Spike no matter how hard you try
Reader Michael Mattice knows Spike Lee as an attention-hungry “sports fan,” front-row Bozo-equipped NBA and now WNBA games compulsively seen to make a scene on postseason telecasts. The Yankees who…
“I just opened my mailbox and Spike Lee jumped out! He is everywhere!”
Some of the TV slapstick recalls the 2012 episode in which Lee recklessly posted the Florida address he thought was the residence of George Zimmerman, who was arrested in the shooting death of 17-year-old African-American American Trayvon Martin?
What was Lee’s motive? Was Zimmerman shot by vigilantes or did his house just burn down?
Either way, Lee distributed the wrong address nationally. This selectively blind advocate for racial justice, who creates fear among the greedy media, had targeted an elderly couple, the McClains.
Where you and I would have been widely condemned, our careers ended for what Lee did, Lee walked away with an “Oops” and an undisclosed resolution. Then it was back to screaming “racism” and his self-proclaimed spoiled front row presence at nationally televised ballgames.
Not that it mattered to Lee, but Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder.
I guess what we can’t miss would be too invisible to mention on the air, but Cleveland first baseman Josh Naylor, listed as 5-foot-11, 250 pounds, even by civilian standards, is thick. But the truth will not be told.
It reminds us of ESPN’s treatment of the Georgia football team’s two-year crime spree — at least 25 arrests, one for vehicular homicide. Given that Georgia is an ESPN business partner through ESPN’s ownership of the SEC Network, ESPN is playing extremely dumb — even for ESPN.
Now that Peyton Manning endorses just about anything — he now appears in TV commercials tossing Bush’s baked beans — he’s primed to endorse a bloat-reducing product.
Local NFL TV assignments for Sunday:
Eagles-Giants, 1 p.m. on Fox: Chris Myers, ∫. Jets-Steelers, 8:20, NBC: Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth.
Like Charles Barkley blowing up after endorsing Weight Watchers (Barkley, an admitted problem player, appeared in commercials luring young people to play sports) and ESPN’s Chris Berman endorsing weight loss elixirs while starring in commercials for Applebee’s Three Cheese Chicken Penne.
Then there’s “Blackish” star Anthony Anderson in a heartfelt, solemn public service ad on behalf of the American Diabetes Association, also seen in commercials for sugar-enhanced Smirnoff vodka.
Abu Dhabi, Knicks? Really?
Jimmy Dolan’s Knicks will take the blood and oil money for sports washing to wear “Experience Abu Dhabi” patches on their various Third World-made uniforms this season.
Yes, by all means, experience Abu Dhabi.
But perhaps, given the UAE’s consistently rotten record on basic human rights – arbitrary arrests and detentions, women as subservient servants to men and homosexuals as personna non grata – it might be better to given to this Islamic monarchy linked to an ancient oppressive theocracy. look away pass.
But the altruistic NBA and its biggest stars — including the kneeling, do-it-all justice LeBron James — will choose TV money and Communist Chinese goods and Arab oil and blood money over true altruism pro-democracy. every time.
And now that Red China prepares its invasion of democratic Taiwan, what is Adam Silver’s plan? Whose lives don’t matter?
Mendy Rudolph come back to us! What I miss the most about how the NBA and college teams ignore traveling (steps) and ballhandling (downhill dribbles to make it easier to cut to the basket or beat strong defenses) offenses are the signals. of hands, almost all from the report.
Palming was shown as it was – dribbling from below or too far to the side. The trip was signaled by swinging the arms while rotating at chest level.
The invisible term for it is “bridge jumpers” – those who place large bets on favorites with odds of showing a return of 10 or 20 cents for every two dollars bet.
In the Oct. 5 four-horse $100,000 Chllingworth Stakes at Santa Anita, Sweet Azteca went 1-9. Because of the short field, there was only profit and place betting, but how could a bridge jumper pass up a big bet on a barrier favorite?
Sweet Azteca, the sure thing, finished fourth – last. Country horse Irish Wahnie paid $74 to finish second in a four-horse race.
I’m going to share this with you, and only you, because you’ve read this far:
I know a guy who knows a guy who says the key to the Jets’ game Sunday is that their defense “has to get off the field.” Remember: Just between us.
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