Best of The 2011

Tonight's telecast between the Cardinals and Phillies at Busch Stadium was our best telecast of the 2011 season for many reasons.
We aired our best replay of the year. This replay showed Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee almost being killed by a line drive. Lee obviously didn't have time to react and the ball hit him near the stomach. He reacted and threw the batter out at first base. When the play occurred, i held my breath. I even uttered "wow" because this situation was so remarkably dangerous.
This play was included when we aired a video segment titled "A game of inches."
This video sequence included a bang bang play at 1st base, a close play at 2nd base on a steal, a double play with a bang bang outcome (out) at 1st base, and the Cliff Lee dangerous play. These angles were all shot from the super slo-mo camera.
This telecast was one of those shows that just clicked.
All TV sports production personnel know telecasts of this type.
Every one of us in this business looks forward to a telecast of this sort.
It seems that when plays are covered during these telecasts in a high quality, more plays are offered by the game and the coverage of these plays are of an even higher quality.
The best become better.
The telecast grows and grows in quality.
The action on the field rewards us in the TV truck with more and more wonderful plays to cover and the coverage becomes better and better.
Tonight's game/telecast was the best example of the type of game that rewards the telecast for it's coverage.
No doubt this was our best show of 2011.
Thus far.