i totally love the camera angle they used for the game. it looked pulled back and you could see all the movement in the pitches. particularly fun when oswalt is throwing that slow curve.
Doug Mansolino. He hung Pettitte out to dry a month or so ago, sent him home from second on a single to LF. AP was out by about 75 feet. Did the same to Lamb, trying to score from 1st on a 2B. Was waiving him around 3rd *as the cutoff man was catching the ball.* Against the Dodgers, he got Lane thrown out by a mile going 2nd to home on a hard single to RF. Those are the *WHAT THE **** are you DOING!?!?* moments that jump out to me. He's agressive, which I usually like, but he's overly so much of the time, and the distance by which he's had some guys thrown out this year pretty much evidences that. Then again, I didn't have a real problem with the Biggio play last night. Wilkerson made a perfect play; if he doesn't turn immediately and doesn't make a perfect throw, Biggio beats it, or at least makes it damn close. I'm curious how you arrived at this conclusion.
At first, it took some getting used to (after all, about 99% of the other stadiums use practically the exact same camera angle)... but you really can see both the movement and pitch location much better from the "dead-center" cam. ESPN tried this with their sunday night broadcasts a couple of years ago, but I guess not enough people could make the transition. If everybody did it, it would benefit most people (it doesn't give you the skewed angle on many ball-strike calls that look way off the plate, or look like strikes when they really aren't). OF course, nothing trumps games in HD... any of them happening this weekend???
yeah i remember espn doing that a while back but in minute maid they couldn't put a camera dead-center so it ended up looking similar to the regular broadcast. i have yet to see an HD tv game of any sport and i know i must be missing out!
I was suprised at how nice RFK stadium was for baseball. It is missing some modern conveniences, don't get me wrong, but it felt good to be in there. By the way, they did not show one Astro highlight on the scoreboard. That was really annoying. But 35,000 for last nights game is pretty amazing. I saw one McGrady jersey for good measure.
Washington announcers said that was the longest HR they've seen at RFK all year. That is definitely huge... Morgan is a big-time RBI guy. I remember Bagwell always able to get on base with 2 outs and nobody on, but we rarely did anything with that. Now, this is twice in the last week that Morgan has come thru after Berkman draws a walk.
If Lane can get hot, we might just need to shore up middle relief before the deadline. A bat would cost us multipul major prospects and or Backe, Burke or Lane, and that is probably to much - even for Dunn.
Dang, wished we had saved some of these runs for Brandon or Wandy. Oh well, Brandon can generally generate some run support of his own.
Great game. What did the stros eat for lunch?! We certainly know what they had for dinner.......I know....that's really cheesey. We outscored the Pirates in that series IIRC, 36-8.....we are on route to do that again to the Nats.
