Somebody at NESN got paid to inflict stupid idea on viewers

While he may have too much time on his hands, this is a detailed and humorous take down of NESN.

The real take home message is great:

"NESN should work on trying to show every pitch of the game - which it consistently fails to do, even tonight - before adding any bells and whistles." Mastering the basics should be the first step. And NESN remains a long way from graduating from that class.

PLEASE tell me that's a photoshop...

"He's fat and bad at baseball" Heh.

I get that this shit drives purists insane, but for most people, baseball is fucking boring. They've done some things to speed of the pace of play, but shit like the pitcher pacing around the mound for 30 seconds, getting back on the mound, staring in for 15 seconds, and then having the hitter step out of the box...this is the "drama" that purists love (or tolerate) but drove away many. Eventually purists die and you're left with no one. The World Series has by far the oldest viewing cohort.

I agree that the execution is poor in some regards, but this isn't much different than the Xfinity sidebar thingie that people seem to really like. Coincidentally, most improvements to telecasts over the past 15 years have actually improved the experience: the straight-on camera, pitch zones, listing pitch counts, etc. Showing only the game only caters to the dying off purists, while making the constant downtime between plays less boring caters to everyone else. The league needs "pink hats" too in order to sustain the league past this generation.

Constantly answering questions that nobody asked.

"Hey, this Don Orsillo sucks, can you force days off on him before eventually getting rid of him?"

"I don't want to see live footage of this Aaron Hernandez verdict, how about an informercial instead?"

You watch other RSN's when their games end up on MLB Network, then you see NESN, and you wonder how such a valuable franchise can make such cheap-looking television sometimes.

Also, I don't have a widescreen TV, so I saw like half the stats display on the left, and I would have had no idea that there was news on the right if this hadn't been posted.

That's when broadcasts of Red Sox games were worth watching.

What drives me nuts is them making this whooOOOM whoom noise every time they change a graphic or show a replay.

It's a bit ironic that the writer calls out NESN for supplying unrelated information, all while having a bunch of 9/11 Truth links off to the side of their ostensible Red Sox blog.

I agree with everything said in the article, but still. That made me laugh a little bit.