Thursday, September 1, 2011

Fun.....Again

The Cardinals beat the Brewers 8 - 4 in 2:57 today to complete a three game sweep and thus keeping their slim playoff hopes alive. The Redbirds are now 7 1/2 games out with 25 to play.
As I wrote in my book Cutting The Game, Inside Television Baseball From the Director's Chair (now available on the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes and Noble Nook), cutting the homerun is great, great fun for a baseball TV director.
This game had seven homeruns!
Homeruns are a good deal more fun to cut when the production team is not in the back end of a dual feed as we were today, but cutting the homerun is still fun indeed.
With 7 homeruns and 23 strikeouts, the pace of the game will suffer. This most certainly accounts for the 2:57 time of game.
I worked with a TD (technical director) for the first time and he was excellent! I especially liked his Minnesota Twins cap.
All in all, this was a pleasurable day in the director's chair.
That's right.....cutting a baseball game was fun.....again.

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