And while we're on that subject, who was the idiot who came up with the idea
of turning up the field mike just as the pitch is being thrown and then back
down again.  It sounds so stupidly unatural.  Lou
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: another freeby possibly going away


> I would _never_ try to catch sports on television, anyway. I'd rather go
> without than try to fill in the blanks that the so-called play-by-play
> announcer leaves because describing something to somebody who is using a
> visual medium is...well, pretty stupid, if you think about it. It's either
> radio or nothing for me where all sports are concerned and that's been my
> rule for a lot of years. In addition to the lack of any meaningful
> description, television sound engineers could take a lot of lessons from
> radio sports broadcast engineers where crowd noise is concerned. I've
never
> yet tried to listen to any sporting event on radio where the crowd totally
> blotted out the announcers, but this happens all the time on television.
> It's just not worth all the hassle.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Olver" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: another freeby possibly going away
>
>
> yah, but I bet it'll be on Sirius.
>
> Fred Olver