So we finally got our first (complete) game in… and it turned out to be an amazing success! Cleveland turned out to be an amazing city and Progressive Field is a very nice and energetic place to see a baseball game. More details after the jump:
So unfortunately, our game got rained out in Pittsburgh, so no podcast/review tonight. We are currently in Cleveland now, so hopefully the first review will occur afterwards. Time for bed though, so keep tuned in!
So apparently posting a voicememo from an Iphone into a format that WordPress recognizes (without it costing me 6 bucks a month) is tricky, but consider it accomplished. This above is the first podcast that my Dad & I did, previewing our trip, where we are excited to go, etc. Enjoy!
So as I mentioned in the last post, I’m doing big things with this blog. One of the primary reasons I chose to resurrect this blog is that this is going to be the primary place (aside from twitter: @GregYoung3) that I am going to blog about my adventures this summer. An explanation after the jump:
Wow, so its been 9 months since my last update here, which was almost entirely forced by my ASUM (Associated Students of the University of Missouri) internship. Since they are technically a “non-partisan” organization, this blog & my liberal leanings, which I’m pretty open about, needed to relax for awhile. But, the internship is now over, so I’m back and ready to roll!
I do have some big changes in store for this blog though, more details later today.
I really need to cut down on referring to myself in third person!
Anyways, apparently the Missouri Democratic Party might want to hire me for some type of internship in the fall. Now might be an excellent time to say how I love them and how they do a bunch of critically important work around the state. Yay Democrats!
I’ve always found the intersection of media and sports (two huge interests of mine) a fascinating process. So I feel compelled to recommend ESPN’s Ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer’s criticism of his own network regarding the “The Decision” (the program where LeBron James revealed his team of choice.) Particularly, I want to highlight this section:
Despite ESPN’s intention, the network did not have “total editorial control” in the James announcement. Yes, ESPN reporters confirmed on their own when the announcement would take place and the network reported it. Yes, reporter Chris Broussard — quoting what he considered very reliable sources — reported early on the morning before “The Decision” that, barring the unforeseen, James was going to join the Heat. And yes, Michael Wilbon, an ESPN NBA analyst and co-host of “Pardon the Interruption,” conducted a lengthy, straightforward interview with James after Gray had completed his questions.
But even so, if the interviewee also brings along his own interviewer, you cannot protect the integrity of the broadcast. According to ESPN, the understanding with Gray was that he would ask James “a few questions” before LeBron announced his destination. That “few” turned into 16 questions. And on a live telecast, when an announcer who doesn’t work for your network gets to questions 7, 8, 9, 10 … well, there’s nothing the producers can do. They can’t kill his microphone; they can’t come out and pull him out of his chair; they can’t even fire him because he’s not in their employ.
One frustrating aspect is the control that ESPN ceded to James and his handlers. The reality is that James didn’t have many other places that he could have gone for a program like this, so ESPN could have dictated the questions and the interviewer (along with the actual length of the program.) Instead, we were left with a lengthy amount of puff-ball questions from Jim Gray.
