Thursday, December 03, 2009

Season Wrap

I suppose it's about time to wrap the season and put it to bed. Actually, I should have done this sometime in September. My season was a wash. It was June before I watched a full broadcast, largely depending on Baseball Tonight for season's progress.

It's possible to reconstruct a game fairly accurately by comparing the line and box scores. Most newspapers outside major markets don't waste the column inches though. This season, as with most, was all about who can beat the Yankees? One by one the prospects fell. Towards the end I thought the Dodgers would be an interesting match, if only because of Joe Torre, not to mention all that historic rivalry between the two teams.

My other great disappointment with the World Series is the broadcast team. Joe Buck is flat, and clearly not that interested in baseball. Fox is actually superb at the technical coverage, but shouldn't be allowed top take cameras on the field during the games. We don't need that POV of the home run trot from third to home.

Only 4 months until spring training.