Did Fox just cut off half the screen on Obama's pitch on purpose?

[Botany]

They must have 30 cameras there and they can't show Obama's pitch crossing the plate?

I might be nuts but that was no accident.

[Thrill]

1. Yup. Murdoch orders. That was straight bullshit

Never seen that before. EVER

[SeattleGirl]

3. Me either. Usual angle is behind and to the right of the pitcher.

That way, you can see the pitch AND the catch.

That was bullshit.

Guess it could have been worse, though. They could have showed only the catch, and not the pitch.

[BlooInBloo]

2. It's hard to imagine how anyone would think that would be a USEFUL angle...

for what everybody was interested in on that particular pitch.

[Botany]

6. The most important part is seeing where it crosses the plate

that was no accident

[MadBadger]

4. Talk about ridiculous conspiracy theories

Sometimes a bad camera angle is just a bad camera angle

[Botany]

8. T.V. has been covering baseball from 1947 .....

.... I think they know where to get the shot from. Like from behind the pitcher to the catcher not from the side of the pitcher
with a hand held camera.

[Uzybone]

9. Its ridiculous yes, but the FOX director is either a novice or a dumbass

a sports director knows the essence of the broadcast is to see the action. Which means they should have followed the pitch.

[Cha]

18. KO might have some enlightenment

on this.

[Cha]

17. Oh yeah?

ruggerson (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-14-09 08:53 PM
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11. It's already on CBS Radio that Fox deliberately did not show his pitch.

Either that or they're dangerously incompetant.

[MadBadger]

20. Oh yeah. DUers automatically think that anytime any branch of Fox "wrongs" them its a conspiracy

Not all Fox's are the same. Fox News is not the same as Fox TV, Fox Sports, etc. But some DUers just dont get that.

[Cha]

21. They reported it on CBS

radio.

[MadBadger]

25. Do you have a quote from CBS Radio?

[SeattleGirl]

23. No, it's not Fox news, but I think it's still owned by Murdoch.

His evil tendrils have a mighty reach.

[MadBadger]

24. He does, but that doesnt mean he exerts his influence on those branches

Otherwise Fox TV would have failed years ago.

[BlooInBloo]

29. You're likely right, but did you watch it?

[MadBadger]

30. Yeah, and if anything, Fox Sports looked like a bunch of amateurs.

[BlooInBloo]

31. Ok.

[AllieB]

5. Apparently it was a good pitch.

Did you hear some of the boos? People were overwhelmingly cheering though. It wasn't like when Cheney went to Yankee Stadium.

[krawhitham]

12. some Boos dues to White Sox jacket in a NL park

[senseandsensibility]

15. That's how I saw it too

But the camera angle was no accident.

[Cha]

27. Exactly..my

thought..not that there wouldn't be any die hard repukes there.

[Pirate Smile]

28. That is what I thought too. There is no way to know how many were Republicans and how many were

booing the Sox jacket.

[Thothmes]

32. little short of the plate, would have been a ball

[ellisonz]

7. Agreed. They seemed fixated on showing him from ground up.

[Avalux]

10. It was a great pitch, right across the plate.

Of course Fox didn't want a good shot of it. It'll be out there on highlights, youtube tho.

[ruggerson]

11. It's already on CBS Radio that Fox deliberately did not show his pitch

[Thrill]

13. That seemed planned to me.

[Stephanie]

14. Here's YouTube with better angle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cItvgbXUOn8

[Uzybone]

19. Thanks. Its not a better angle, just a wider TV

but yeah...it was a no doubter of a pitch. Smack into Pujols glove.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Wider TV really doesn't explain it. I don't have a wide screen,

and normally, I see both the pitch and the catch in baseball games.

[wantoutnow]

16. I was waiting for the (R)

after his name being put up by fox. Maybe if he would have thrown a bad pitch they would have.

[Jakes Progress]

22. Of course they did. Are you surprised? nt

[Balbus]

33. If so, they did him a favor.

It was a terrible pitch.

[PVnRT]

34. One, they showed it later

while he was in the booth, from the more traditional over-the-shoulder view you see during the broadcast. The pitch bounced a couple of inches before the plate, as, frankly, most first pitches do (it looks short on the TV, but step onto a major league diamond sometime - it's a hell of a lot longer from the mound to the plate).

It could simply be they were declining to show the end of the pitch so as to avoid showing it bounce.