Curt Schilling - really????
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Lol.... Sorry to break up the hate with a positive. Please continue.
redhotcoach
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Cannonball
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I was reading your quote and so, transposed names. Regardless, the point was that most teams play a standard depth per their defensive speed. In most cases, their still remains these triangle areas on the field that can't be covered unless one gives up the power gaps and anything medium to deep. In my experience, most of the teams I've seen take the hit away like that get burned a large percentage of the time. However, that is just my observation.
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More like "Thank God we can watch baseball knowing that Schilling is off doing softball somewhere." The man is unlistenable. If people watched baseball games based on the announcers, the Giants would have the highest viewership in baseball (Jon Miller). I wonder how much softball viewers would appreciate Schilling making weird jokes about his sex life:
Curt Schilling: "Ask My Wife ... Not Pleasurable But Consistent"
JJsqueeze
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He won me over when he asked about how the umps are selected...."so Uh...Jessica, where do you get these morons to call the game, the OKC drunk tank?" i'm paraphrasing of course but that is what he meant....
I didn't recall him saying 'What could they be talking about?' as if he had no idea. I interpreted it as him saying, 'Hey, Michele, you've been in this situation, you're the expert, you're actually a softball pitcher, unlike me, and unlike baseball, the whole infield is in this pow-wow, what's do you think they're saying? Is it strategy? Is it just more about maintaining the right frame of mind? Keeping everybody focused?' Schilling's role was partly that of a fan, a baseball guy, the one watching the WCWS that you're trying to attract as a fan of the sport, grow the game, etc. That's what that kind of fan might be thinking. You could view the question as idiotic, but also as deferring to the expert, kinda humble like.
Instead of acting like some kind of "macho man know-it-all", Curt was doing the right thing in asking leading questions that Smith and Mendozza would.....and should answer. While the leading questions might sould idiotic to you, they were great leading questions to ask for the average viewer, especially the 10 - 14 year old girls that play softball. Schilling knew the answers to just about every question he asked.
Cannonball
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In fact, he asked the bold several times. He asked it about a conversation between the next hitter and a coach. (I pointed that out yesterday.) He asked it about what was being said in the circle between players. He asked it about a conversation between pitching coach and player.
You mention a "humble approach," however, I lost track of how many times he used, "I" in the broadcast. He constantly referenced what he would do. Softball and baseball are two different games. One example, was when he stated he would throw a pitch up and in and the pitcher threw a change and got a ground ball to 3B. For me, the "I" references were really annoying. BTW, did anyone notice that a few times with these types of questions, those in the booth didn't answer or changed the subject. One example was when he asked how the umpires were chosen.
Several of you continue to assert that the goal of ESPN was to bring baseball people to appreciate softball. Where is your evidence of this? I'd submit to you that softball people were the ones watching and baseball people were watching the baseball options be it college or pro.
