Cubs VS Indians

[pangaia]

Great Series so far....


Except for the camera work. :&gt ) As usual..
-close up of pitcher's beard and ear, zzooooommm in,, eeeeiiiiiiiiEEIII TOO BIG !!!
-close up of the batter adjusting his gloves DUH!! No shit!!
-close up of batter 'concentrating'
-close up of pitcher peering in
- close up of batter scratching nuts
Ah shit, missed the pick off!!

Where are the outfielders playing?
Where are the infielders playing?gap. CLOSE UP of the ball ... Look how good I am with the zoom button !! But where the fuck are the runners????
throw to third.. close up of the ball THE BALL !!!

Over and over and over and over. Every pitch exactly the same hour after hour..year after year....
Do these people have ANY idea about the game of baseball? NO ! None. nada.. ZERO.... I swear, these are the same idiot directors who do live streaming of symphony orchestra concerts...



BTW, Hendricks' curve ball is just filthy dirty... :&gt )

[pangaia]

1. Ok, I'll rec and reply to my own ignored thread.

Did you see that freaking outside corner two seamer?

[TheDebbieDee]

2. The WS just isn't as interesting when your favorite

team isn't playing in it! But it a lot less nerve-wracking to watch!

[pangaia]

3. Oh thank you thank you..

Now I feel more loved.



My team isn't in it either I just love baseball..

[TheDebbieDee]

4. So u r getting ur last fix to get u thru winter!

My team played in the last 2 WS after missing post'season entirely for 29 years... But I gotta tell you, those guys were SO worth the wait!

Enjoy this Cubs fans and Indian fans!

[pangaia]

5. Right.

The greatest day of the year isn't New years. or Christmas, or July 4th.
it is PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheDebbieDee]

9. February is right around the corner...

[GWC58]

32. 33 years here, and counting!

I've given up of ever seeing my team in the Series. Maybe they do need to get rid of Buck! He does not know how to handle a pitching staff. Zach Brittain should've pitched in that w/c game & didnt! 😡😡

[Gabi Hayes]

7. fox cannot cover sports. just horrible, and joe buck.......lord

turn on AM 670 during the seventh inning. bill murray will be singing take me at the stretch. dunno if it's streaming, but I live in Chicago, so have it on.

was there a phantom exchange at second on the faux double play they tried?

not even a replay to see how close it was!!!


just wretched coverage

and almost no strike/ball replay, even though they have the overhead to see clearly if the ball was inside/outside/on the plate

pathetic

that home plate umpire is the worst I've seen.....just horrendous calls in the first inning, particularly, against the Indians, and I'm a rock hard cub. so there

[pangaia]

10. All networks have the same camera work as far as I can tell.

But, yeah, FOX is the worst..

Phantom exchange.. no-- in the interest in protecting the pivot guy, they are unofficially allowed to be off the bad as long as it looks like they COULD HAVE BEEN on it..

Hirshberg, though, to his credit, has been pretty consistent.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. they've been instructed NOT to allow this for years, and I've seen it reversed many timesq

the fact they didn't replay it makes me wonder why.....it sure looked to me like the phantom foot happened that time

here's espn radio stream....WAY behind the tv:

http://tunein.com/radio/ESPN-Chicago-1000-s21297/

WSCR am 670, doesn't appear to be streaming it....but I'm still checking

if AM 1000 is, they should be able to

[pangaia]

14. I didn't know that about the pivot...

[Gabi Hayes]

16. I know more than the umpires! believe me! I have the best angles! everybody says,

lots of people say, I'm not saying, that I know more about baseball than anyone. all the players LOVE me!

[pangaia]

18. I believe you.!!!

[pangaia]

20. DOUBLE PLAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHEW!!!!!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Legal Pot, a human being set foot on Mars, Time Traveling Cyborgs even

but I never thought I'd see a World Series at Wrigley Field. For reals.

[pangaia]

11. gorgeous place... on my bucket list..

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. FOX? They do the same crap when covering college football games.

Maybe not to THAT extent, but I don't like not seeing more of the field of play.

I'm convinced that their games take longer too due to commercials.

[pangaia]

12. Exactly, when the QB goes back to pass, the camera should zoom OUT

so you can see the receivers.....

[Gabi Hayes]

15. ALL football coverage, all levels, ALL networks, do it that way. completely static.

ridiculously terrible

even the replays are often likely to follow the quarterback, not the receiver's route

the failure to not pan back is my biggest gripe, though, among myriad others

[pangaia]

17. Like I said,

same thing in symphony concerts.. close ups of trumpet valves, the cute young violinist's fingers, trombone bell.. blechkkkk

It can be the end of the Mahler 1st with both timpanists playing fff and what do they show? Yet another shot of the 1st violins...

(former timpanist, btw)

[Gabi Hayes]

19. ha;hahahaaaaaaaaaaa. me too

night trip to rio!

on the high school radio station

too funny

double play....cubs!

another phantom pivot?

no replay again!

[pangaia]

21. HA HA !!!

You and the phantom..
gabi, it's gonna be a long night

[Gabi Hayes]

22. jah! mit the unhittable miller looming

not looking gut for my cubsters

[pangaia]

24. ooppsss that was quick

Mets fan here, sort of..

But GO CUBS !!!!!!!!

[pangaia]

30. FOX CAMERAS SUCK...

Missed the runner going to 3rd arrgghhhhh

zoom in on the ball. The ball is WHITE with little red sewing on it.
We all know that !!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

31. They just went to commercials with only two outs in the 7th!

If there's no pitching change or something, it's the same ol' FOX extra-commercial coverage that I see in football too.

EDIT: Okay, the Cubs indeed changed pitchers.

[a kennedy]

23. Brewer fan here.......but so happy the Cubbies are in it.....

Go Cobs Go. Doesn't that sound odd??? Go Brewers Go. Sounds so much better.

[pangaia]

25. Of course GO COBS GO sounds odd.

[a kennedy]

26. ok, ok......GO CUBS GO.....

and I agree GO COBS GO......

[pangaia]

27. Chicago Corn Cobs...

Mets fan here....But also GO COGS GO !!!

[gratuitous]

28. About time we had a decent game

Two wire-to-wire games of 6-0 and 5-1 were boring. Game 3 is a little more dramatic. Good pitching and good fielding, both teams getting out of jams, and it's scoreless in the top of the sixth.

Let's see who responds to the pressure, and who wilts.

[pangaia]

29. Even though the first 2 seemed one sided,

I thought they were still good games... To me they felt tight regardless, especially the first one.. 3-0 until the very end.

But you're right.
This one is really good.. dead man walking curve balls and dirty 2 seamers all over the place..

[gratuitous]

33. AGAIN - no lead changes

The Royals had come from behind twice by this time last year.

Definitely more interesting than Games 1 and 2, but still: Chicago's inability to get a hit when they need one is becoming the story of the Series.