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SI.com: What is your best suggestion to make baseball more television friendly and why?Keith Law: Some of it is about the game itself
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on this. But I think the main contributor is commercials—the number and length
of commercial breaks. Between innings, sure, but do we have to go to commercial
for every pitching change? I understand that commercials provide revenue for the
broadcaster, but in a world of seemingly infinite choices, commercial breaks
prompt people to change the channel, leave the room, fold the laundry, etc. They
interrupt the flow of the viewing experience—you were wrapped up in the game,
oh, yeah, let's bring in the specialist reliever to face one batter, next pitch
is in three minutes. I can get a lot done in three minutes
Breeland Speaks Jersey Elite , none of which involves sitting there and watching commercials.This may be specific to me, but I also find there's too much uninformative content in a lot of game broadcasts—stories that don't relate to the action or
the teams on the field, clichés in lieu of analysis, clips that cut away from
the action. If I were producing a game broadcast, anything that makes the viewer
miss even a single pitch would be a cardinal sin. (Not a Cardinal sin, which
would be the Best Sin in Baseball.) If you don't have anything informative to
say, say nothing. I have only done a few games as a color guy, but I really try
to follow that one rule. I'm here to share what I know with the viewers, and it
should be stuff most viewers don't know already or might not have noticed on the
field. I will say, however, that it's not easy, when you're talking live on air,
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SI.com: What elements are needed for a successful baseball studio show, regardless on medium, and why?KL: I think the era of the highlight show is over. We all get highlights through other media now, whether it's on Twitter or Facebook, or
directly through a sports league's app. MLB At Bat/MLB.TV are unbelievable
products, and they deliver more information and video to the consumer, faster,
than ever before. When CB Bucknor botched that game-ending third strike (he
called it a foul tip, even though the batter didn't come within 12 parsecs of
the pitch), I jumped into the app, went to the video stream, backed up just
enough to watch that sequence four times, and posted a screenshot
Authentic Bud Norris Jersey , all in a few minutes. So seeing that play on TV an hour later doesn't do a whole lot for me.That means that the entire concept of a baseball studio show has to change. It needs to be either analysis-driven—here are things that happened with
explanations why; here's why this team made this move; or theme-driven, thinking
topically (but, please, no hot takes). The key driver here is the same as it is
for color commentary on games: You must educate the viewer about the topic at
hand. It can be a debate, on a topic with multiple reasonable viewpoints, or it
can be one person explaining something (like I've done, with the help of my BBTN
producers, in “Law School” segments), but it has to give the viewer something he
or she didn't already know, or something to think about going forward.
SI.com: As someone who offers political thoughts or forwards politically oriented material on Twitter, how, if at all, has that
impacted your interactions with readers and viewers on social media?KL: I try to focus on two areas in that sphere—science issues and civil rights. The former has always been an interest for me. I
remember my dad had a chemistry text in the house when I was a kid and I would
read it like it was a novel . I find it appalling that
Cheap Jonathan Cooper Jersey , say, the House Committee on Science is chaired by a climate-change denier and whose religion refuses vaccinations. The
conclusions of science should not be subject to approval by politicians. I stand
with science and will continue to do so, just as I will continue to stand up for
equal rights for everyone—women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with
disabilities, anyone who wasn't born into the same kind of privilege I was as a
straight, white, cis man.Yes, that does attract some negative feedback on Twitter, and occasionally on my personal site. I employ the mute and block functions heavily on Twitter, have
banned many people from my personal Facebook page, and even blocked a few
commenters on the dish
http://www.losangelesramsteamonline.com/john-kelly-jersey , for using bigoted language, profanity, or, my favorite, telling me what I can
and can't do with my personal accounts and blog. You have the right to think
that vaccines cause autism (they don't) or that being gay/transgender is a
“lifestyle choice” (it isn't) but I sure as heck don't have to listen to you.
And if this means I lose a few racists as potential
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