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Posted By: warshawlaw

Fox's coverage of baseball is the worst suck ass coverage I have ever seen of any major sport. Every damned pitch, they show a close-up ("CU") of the batter's face, CU of the pitcher's face, CU of some clown in the stands, CU of the coach or someone on the bench, CU of another clown in the stands, then the pitcher halfway through the delivery to the batter. If the ball is hit, they may follow it; if not, right back to the nose hair portraits. Where the hell is the baseball game? To the casual observer, there is no one on the field. Ridiculous. What makes it even more insulting is that 90% ofthe CU's are not of well endowed women Honestly, it's just unAmerican to subject us to multiple CU shots of ugly people. I bet replacing the directors at FOx would boost the ratings 10% overnight.

As far as McCarver goes, I agree 100%. As irritating as John Madden on his worst, most cliched and obvious day ("now, on that at bat, the pitcher threw strikes and the batter tried to hit them"; no kidding). Try this: turn off the tv sound and listen to the ESPN radio play by play. Way better commentary.