Respecting

The Cardinals season is slowly coming to an end.

They are 10 1/2 games out of first place with 21 games to play.

As the season continues to move to the "meaningless" games stage, the telecasts become increasingly difficult to direct. Cutting meaningless games becomes tougher to do because, like the team, the telecast crew can lose the "edge" needed to deliver a quality product.

As I write 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) the TV baseball director, in order to deliver a quality product, must respect the game, the players, the fans, and the TV crew.

By respecting these different facets of the telecast, the director is able to maintain that edge to a certain degree.

Just as the best players in the Major Leagues are the ones with the highest respect for the game, their teammates, and the visiting players, the most successful TV baseball directors are the ones with the highest respect towards the aforementioned facets of the telecast.

This respect is absolutely needed as the baseball season winds down and the games become meaningless in the win/loss column.