Matthew HaugheyI can’t explain why listening to a baseball game on the radio instead of watching on TV is much more fulfilling but it is
Todd Vaziri@mathowie it's so magical
sayrer@mathowie you don’t have to watch baseball. even if you go, you can just sit there. Now, soccer, you have to watch that…
ErgonWolf@mathowie The patter of the announcers is entirely different and is much more telling of a story instead of filling in gaps where the picture is slow. When I was going to a bunch of Diamondbacks games while living in phoenix, I'd see guys who would be in the stands with portable television sets tuned into the game they were attending and also with an earphone listening to the same game on radio. They wanted to be in the park where it was happening, but they wanted the stats and close-ups from television, and wanted the patter from radio.
The local station that carried the ball game there had a 5.1 surround sound that they did the game in, with the center speaker being the announcers and the rest of the surround picture being the actual sound of the ballpark. I used to tune into that and turn off the center speaker and just sort of virtually be at the ball park if I couldn't be there in person.
This has been my TED talk on how sound and baseball can be weird.
Jeff Atwood@mathowie it's even more boring that way is my working hypothesis
@codinghorror shots fired @gknauss
Jon Maddox@mathowie Because baseball doesn’t require your full undivided attention, and you can do other things while taking it in, and you are.
Roadskater, Ph.D.@mathowie Baseball on TV is a play followed by three or four replays from different angles. Same with the next play, and the one after that. Etc. Sux.
Stephen Baker@mathowie
AM Radio was one of the reasons that the StL Cardinals had such a big following. The games were broadcast on a Clear Air Station that after sundown could be heard for hundreds of miles. People in rural communities throughout the center of the United States would sit on their porches listening to the game late into the night. It was the Great American Passtime. …until management decided to switch to FM and cozy up with subscription streaming services. #enshittification
AM Radio was one of the reasons that the StL Cardinals had such a big following. The games were broadcast on a Clear Air Station that after sundown could be heard for hundreds of miles. People in rural communities throughout the center of the United States would sit on their porches listening to the game late into the night. It was the Great American Passtime. …until management decided to switch to FM and cozy up with subscription streaming services. #enshittification
SpaceLifeForm
Hm… I’m skeptical@mathowie good play-by-play announcers are special. A good one that covers hockey is like audio LSD