inning begins? This has been happening for years. Can you imagine how people would feel if football broadcasts missed the first couple or three downs of the next series after a timeout? It would not be tolerated. Certainly it is a very easy fix. Then again, it is such a little thing, and we all know the little things don't really matter do they?
Is it asking too much that the baseball radio network return before the next
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I've e-mailed, and sent text to Ellis, Gregory and Stricklin and they refuse to do anything about it. It's a damn disgrace. In Saturday's game they missed a double play and a 2 run double.
The difference is the baseball clock has no reguard for radio broadcasts. The umpire doesn't always wait the entire 90 seconds between innings before asking for the hitter. In football, a guy stands out on the field and holds up the game until radio is ready.
I'm not involved with it in any way, but I have made the effort to notice when at the games to try to figure out why. I imagine it's a difficult situation to try to avoid. About all they can do is go to break as quickly as possible at the end of an inning instead of taking another 15-20 seconds to finish their thought.
The pitching change breaks for short mound visits are quite annoying, though. It's almost always at an important juncture in the game.
I'm not involved with it in any way, but I have made the effort to notice when at the games to try to figure out why. I imagine it's a difficult situation to try to avoid. About all they can do is go to break as quickly as possible at the end of an inning instead of taking another 15-20 seconds to finish their thought.
The pitching change breaks for short mound visits are quite annoying, though. It's almost always at an important juncture in the game.
Just curious. Has anyone sampled other team's broadcasts?....
It seems to me that if this is related to the lack of harmonization between broadcasting requirements and game management it should be a universal problem. It can be done because it was done several times in Sat's first game due to TV. The batter got into the box, pitcher had the ball, everything was ready but everyone just stood there for 15-30 seconds until the TV broadcast was ready to go.
The difference between FB, basketball and baseball is simply financial. Large amounts of it are handed out for TV thus for FB and hoops the game is purposefully managed around media breaks. No such $$ exist in a regular college baseball broadcast so there is no incentive to hold up the game until the advertisers are satisfied on the radio and fans can hear the first couple of pitches in the inning.
It seems to me that if this is related to the lack of harmonization between broadcasting requirements and game management it should be a universal problem. It can be done because it was done several times in Sat's first game due to TV. The batter got into the box, pitcher had the ball, everything was ready but everyone just stood there for 15-30 seconds until the TV broadcast was ready to go.
The difference between FB, basketball and baseball is simply financial. Large amounts of it are handed out for TV thus for FB and hoops the game is purposefully managed around media breaks. No such $$ exist in a regular college baseball broadcast so there is no incentive to hold up the game until the advertisers are satisfied on the radio and fans can hear the first couple of pitches in the inning.
This is on Jim Ellis and no one else. All you have to do to confirm this is listen to Bart Gregory call inning 4-6. Bart gets STRAIGHT TO THE BREAK. He never misses a pitch and generally returns while the pitcher is still taking warm up pitches. Meanwhile Jim stammers and recaps entirely too long at the end of an inning and is the reason they come back late. And yes..there are commercials that need to be read. But Bart chooses to do it AFTER the break as well as in between pitches upon return, allowing no action to be missed. This is a Jim problem and I don't understand why he hasn't been made aware of it.
We have already established that Jim Ellis simply talks too long after the inning. It does not happen when Bart is calling the game (maybe he's an avid reader). Jim Ellis is a pro at calling baseball and one of the best in the business, but he can't seem to fix this problem.
I disagree about Ellis being a pro at calling baseball. He is good in some respects, but as many have pointed out, he causes the broadcast to be late coming back way too often. Also, you can listen to damn near the whole half-inning without hearing the score (happened to me after a tennis match the night we played Central Arkansas in the 2nd regional title game).
As far as the first point - is that Ellis's fault? If there is a minute commercial break and play resumes at 40 seconds - what can you do?
Completely agree! Jim almost always takes too long going to break. You give runs/hits/errors & inning number and then cut to commercial. There's no need to elaborate on the final play of an inning if it's going to prevent you from hearing the first play of the next inning.
No it doesn't happen to other broadcast. Ole miss, lsu and others I've never heard it on their shows. Jim Ellis frankly should retire. And it happens to Gregorys broadcast too. He missed a double play to end an inning and came back and went to another commercial where he missed the first three pitches of the next inning. As others have pointed out, it's been going on for years. Where is our athletic director, once again no leadership in the ad department.
This can happen on a trip to the mound that's short and that's understandable.
However, this should never happen at the end of an inning. Again, all the guy who is calling innings 1,2,3,7,8,9 has to do is listen to how the guy calling innings 5,6,7 does it. Not hard.
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If you drag *** and run your mouth instead of getting to the break, you can miss the action because the commercials are set. It's a "Jim Ellis likes to hear Jim Ellis talk" problem...nothing more, nothing less