Comments on: The dream pre-game

By: msb

msb — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:02:54 +0000

The problem is, they have no tools.

or too many Tools.

By: Oolon

Oolon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:19:16 +0000

I never watch the pre-game show but I often do pretty much what Derek is suggesting by going through the Game Notes from each of the teams involved in the game. They’re free and on the mlb.com site here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/presspass/index.jsp

These Game Notes are the same as the ones distributed in the press box before each game.

They often have a lot of very interesting information about the players and the teams. Worth checking out.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:34:26 +0000

I don’t think most fans want to examine the upcoming game and consider the actual likelihood of winning.

I think most fans just want to be excited and cheer for their team.

If the pre-game came out and said “this team is way better than us at everything”, no one would watch the game.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:35:22 +0000

The problem is, they have no tools. They could be asking those questions, but they have no idea how to go about finding the answers. What does the other team do well? You’d just get the same inane unrooted blather you get now, because they have no clue what “do well” or “do poorly” means.

Which reminds me: the crew doing the postseason on The Baseball Network make me want to pound sharpened pencils into my ears until they touch in the middle.

By: the other benno

the other benno — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:54:14 +0000

While I’d love to see a real and informative pre-game show, I think what the networks see the pre-game show as is a way to get a lot of advertising money versus minimal production cost. It seems like they go to commercial about every 3 minutes whenever I do watch a pre-game regardless of network or sport.

By: great gonzalez

great gonzalez — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:39:16 +0000

I never watch the current pregame show. I would watch the dream pregame Derek describes.

By: jzalman

jzalman — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:41:41 +0000

“In the year three thousand and thirty,
Everybody want to be a producer…”

By: Joe C

Joe C — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:16:27 +0000

Did it ever cross your mind that they’d rather do their 547th interview with Raul than actually try to figure out why the team sucks because they are trying to improve their ratings in a bad year? I have a feeling that if they were to show more detailed analysis, they’d teach the fans exactly why the team stinks and even less people would watch the game.

By: msb

msb — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:14:06 +0000

It really is awful and I pray it’s upgraded for the next year.

especially as this year they sank to New York Vinnie and Nicole and her Zaloumis.

By: bakomariner

bakomariner — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:02:07 +0000

I am torn…I usually watch it, but I hate it. Bill is TERRIBLE…sounds like a friggin idiot. But what else is there? As Derek pointed out, it’s one of those “if it ain’t broken…” typed deals. If people are watching, why change it.

It really is awful and I pray it’s upgraded for the next year.