The Bible, Fanshots and Howie’s posts.

What are things that I hardly ever read?

Goodman is considered one of the best television critics today. His reviews of shows are very good and extremely well-written, even if I don’t ALWAYS agree with him (he didn’t like Firefly, for example… The bastard.).

Yup, that’s how I felt too. The article is more lamenting the fact that Kruk is forced into too much color commentary due to shitty producers.

Yeah, I agree, Kruk is waaaaay too into pitching around guys with an open base. I really hate that strategy. There are times for it, but not every time there’s an open base.

Tim Goodman is a TV critic and by nature more of an artistic personality than a sports fan personality, but even so, when the Giant’s bats are flaccid the entire broadcast can be tedious, not just the fanshots.

I have found the DVR replay on the +1 speed is the best way to watch the games anyway, when I am not there. When see something I back it up and watch at normal speed, and then move on again. I can get the game watched in about an hour or so that way.

Yeah. I’ve always liked the fun Kruk and Kuip have commenting on ball dudes, funny looking people and parents trying to deal with their their kids (maybe it’s not as much fun for non-parents). A great example was a game last week where a baby’s knit cap was pulled down over its eyes and the parents were oblvivious. Kruk and Kuip were having fun with “Can I get a little help here? I can’t see anything!” I’ve also enjoyed when Kruk eliminates people/things (like Larry King’s Dodger cap).

What I don’t like are the shmaless plugs for different vendors. Yeah, you can build a bear at the ball park. We get it.

I’ll always like Tim Goodman because of how he championed Arrested Development.

They had an entire inning where they were basically ogling girls in the McCovey Loft. Kruk eliminated the guys who were there with them and everything. It was pretty good.

The surprising thing for me is how different the tone of each one is. The responses in the Fanshot are much more “Goodman’s being stupid about this,” while the resonses here are much more “Goodman’s fairly criticizing the broadcast itself, and not being particularly or unfairly negative to either Kruk or Kuip.”

It seems to be one of those cases where duplication results in a varied response.

I do agree that the Fanshots aren’t proving very effective for stories like these. They seem to be doing fairly well for videos and photos, though.

I think you actually got a pretty good amount of commentary in the fanshot.

And putting it down there because you don’t personally having much to say about it was the right move. You’re actually utilizing the system the way it was designed to be used!

It was good stuff.

He might not have every listened to Miller on the radio. Miller on ESPN doesn’t really (get to?) do the fun stuff.

Is actually a rabid Giants fan. Don’t know how much he gets to watch/listen, because he has to watch other shows pretty much all the time for his job. Man, I’m glad I don’t have to watch TV for a living! =(

My suspicion isn’t that Tim was saying KnK digress but Miller doesn’t as much as the style of Jon’s digressions probably don’t grate on his nerves as much. I think it’s a different experience broadcasting the game on the radio than it is on TV, so the radio digressions don’t seem to blatantly obvious and annoying.

Like I said, I like Kruk and Kuip, but they do digress a little too often. I don’t think it’s necessarily their fault, as much as the broadcaster’s fault, though.

I like Goodman’s writing a lot, but comparing Kruk and Kuip’s work for a local broadcast aimed at Giants fans with a national one aimed at baseball fans in general (which is what Jon Miller does on ESPN radio/TV) is kind of a jury-rigged argument. They’re totally different in their pacing and their information, and the assumptions they place on the viewing audience.

That said, the fact that Jon Miller works so well in both settings really speaks to how good a broadcaster he is.