Game 116 Afterglow Thread

Arby’s plus extra.

Hopefully, we get some Avila or Miggy action.

Or Guillen. No offense, Carlos.

But he just doesn’t LOOK like a home run hitter.

we like inge. he does well enough with enough spectacular plays that he still contributes.

I don’t like seeing him hurt, but he and skip wouldn’t have him in the games if it were a bad idea, I don’t think

but don’t DL him or anything. His glove alone is to valuable to this team.

I don’t see him going anywhere soon. Although I agree that this may hurt them in the Stretch

is 1000 times better than any other healthy third baseman.

…but then they use up their quota by the time the actual games start.

watched most of the game, then switched to the tigers with the lions down 9 with five left to go…

they just have these canned questions every night. no wonder Jimmy looks surly so often.

This is what I did for a living in the past life after all.

“Talk about” is a lazy way to do an interview, and typically used when leading in the direction of a storyline you’ve got in your head. For that reason, it’s a favorite of TV guys who want that 15 second quote without much work. You’ve got the highlight, you need the reaction that fits in seemlessly, lead them into it and there you go. TV folks are doing stories, they’re just doing replays. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve got friends in TV and sometimes they do ask insightful stuff. Just seems like you never see it on postgame for pro sports.

Postgame is often a bad time for quotes, anyway, yet people expect to hear them. Athletes were living in the moment, coaches just don’t care to give good quotes quite often, and were of course living in the moment too. There’s not a lot of time to think back about it and put together a nice crisp quote, and they just want to get it over with and go on with their day anyway. The people asking the questions know that, too. So you’re gonna hear a lot of cliches and boring stuff out of both sides. The worst quotes will typically come from asking for them to talk about a specific moment. The best come form open-ended questions and finding a theme.

The theme is what gives the newspaper guys the ability to build a better story. You come at it from a different angle and it works better. Like say it’s the improved fielding. You don’t go “talk about brandon inge’s big play in the third inning” if that’s the game-turning play you want to hang your hat on. Ask what fundamentals make inge a good fielder, etc. Of course over the course of 162 games, you’re gonna be hard pressed to keep it fresh.

But anyway, yeah, I agree, I don’t really listen to postgame interviews on TV. I like the features that occur between games to really get the information from.

By the way, the only journalism class I ever took was the history of journalism, and i’ve got awards for my work from the state press association. It’s a craft, you don’t need to learn it in school, despite what they claim.

I was wondering about that too

isn’t the rook backpack pink now

srs bsns

what he wants is a beer with his team mates
(and he had a backpack on while on TV)

is somewhere in there, I think

I think it’s great to see these kids, but I wonder if being on ESPN isn’t too much pressure for some of them.

But mostly it’s depressing to see how many 12 year old kids are taller than I am. My nephew is 4 and a half – I figure I’ve got another seven years, at most, to be taller than he is.

heheh

so I just turn down the sound :)

I have it, but I couldn’t figure out how…

I’m still here, kind of, thanks to asshole neighbors who won’t shut up.