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Around SBN: Celtics Need To Get In The Zone

Announcing and Score Keeping at the Coliseum

by Shed on Sep 5, 2011 2:36 PM PDT

Seriously, it's been getting progressively worse over the last few seasons:

Yesterday's infraction:

De La Santos pitched to 3 Mariners and never even got displayed on the pitcher board. It literally went straight from Cahill to Outman. We also had a bunch of pinch-hitters and pinch fielders only get announced 1 or 2 at bats after they were on the field.

In previous games this season, counts often wrong or late. The game I went to a couple of weeks, they had Suzuki at Catcher until Landon Powell finally got to hit.

Has anyone else noticed this, have they just given up as well, am I just becoming a crumudgeon (sp?) or does nobody really care?

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Yes, you are right

Not that hard. Happens on broadcast visual summaries as well. Minor league

by Alvin Dark on Sep 5, 2011 7:28 PM PDT reply actions

The other day

when I was there, the radar gun was off by 2 mph

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by OptimistPrime on Sep 5, 2011 8:00 PM PDT reply actions

Well - I am glad you had your radar gun there to keep track.

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by Berry Jo on Sep 5, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions

OP didn't need to bring it.

He could tell by the eye test it was off.

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by Tutu-late on Sep 7, 2011 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions

One time, I used the ladies restroom

and no one said or did anything.

by Leopold Bloom on Sep 6, 2011 4:12 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

The people in front of me moved.

Two whole seats over. So they could see better. The usher didn’t do a thing. Sheesh.

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by skigurl on Sep 6, 2011 7:46 AM PDT reply actions

I heard that you can take a large beer that's not completely full and pour it into a small beer cup.

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by mikev on Sep 6, 2011 8:24 AM PDT reply actions

Actually it was that you can take a full large

And pour it in the small. It made the national news last year as one of the biggest concession scams in sports.

by athletics68 on Sep 6, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions

noticed that too

Actually, I think the pitcher board went from Outman to Fuentes, skipping De Los Santos. They definitely are getting sloppy on the announcements, making scorekeeping tough, not that I keep a perfect scorebook anyhow.

by vk on Sep 6, 2011 3:45 PM PDT reply actions

Yes you're right...

Sorry described it wrong. It had Outman’s pitches just go up and De Los Santos might not have existed. Regardless it’s just plain sloppy.

by Shed on Sep 6, 2011 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions

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