Fox will formally announce Wednesday that its Major League Baseball playoff coverage will include what it bills as a TV first: Cameras zipping over the field of play.
Says Fox Sports President Eric Shanks: “It’s a video game view of baseball for the first time.”
The idea is to use one camera per game that will move along cables and be controlled by operators who are supposed to keep those cameras away from fair and foul territory until pitches cross home plate.
Then the cameras, like the cable-cams that now routinely hover over NFL games, can roam over the field at altitudes ranging from about 12 to 80 feet above ground.
Says Shanks: “It’s like the football cable-cams, they can hover all over.”
Like hover over bases to give new overhead views of close plays. (Which, if it works, might factor into discussions of bringing instant replay to MLB.) And, Shanks says, they will hover over managers talking to their pitchers on the mound: “But we’ve agreed with MLB to not put microphones on the camera, so we won’t listen in to conversations.”
Wait a sec….
Which begs the obvious: What if a ball in play hits a hovering camera?
Brosnan says MLB doesn’t “have the ground rule just yet” about what would be called if that happened. And, he says the placement of cables over the field will be handled “on a case-by-case basis” to account for each ballpark’s layout. But overall, he says, MLB wants to keep cameras out of the way: “In our thirst to bring fans closer to the game, we still can’t intrude on the competition.”
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1. Walt Davis Posted: October 01, 2010 at 01:33 AM (#3652413)We'll have instant replay to see whether a ball hit a wire or camera.
And in Tampa, if the ball hits the camera and bounces off and hits the catwalk, how many bases does the batter get?
iF you're referring to life-sized dancing baby, that was just Arod.
Depends on how many Blerns there are.
What happens if the ball lands on a bird's back and he carries it into foul territory but then is attacked by a larger bird who grabs the ball and drops it over the fence? Is that still a homerun?
Of course, it's Fox, so they'll play up the gimmick and do stupid things like use it for live shots (confusing the viewers), rather than sparingly show replays where the new vantage point adds to the viewers' understanding of what happened. But overall, I think most innovations like this are net positives.
I'm thinking it will be used to see show us the Eagle they have circling the stadium with red and blue feathers and a FOX logo on its ass.
So where do they keep the cameras? Earth Prime? Chronosynclastic infundibulae? The Twilight Zone?
And I'm trying to figure out if post #10 is most like "Talk Talk" by Talk Talk, "Bad Company" by Bad Company, or "Titus Andronicus" by Titus Andronicus.
Not a chance. Those shots are "dramatic" and "make things more personal for the fan" and "distract us from how boring baseball is" and lots of other stuff too!
Pretty sure that's an advanced case of syphilis. Explains his drop in production and sale of his bachelor pad.
I figured hovering drones, too. The cable plan will provide cool shots - and, really, this is what Fox should be doing, playing with how to show the game better rather than how to show distractions better. But, yes, I expect problems.
John Lackey in HD is where boners go to die.
What they really need are these things.
Nah, it's more like "Iron Maiden" by Iron Maiden, "Motorhead" by Motorhead, or "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath.
Which is why you try it out in, preferably, spring training games or, short of that, regular season games between teams not likely to make the postseason. Bringing it out for the first time in the playoffs raises the risks a lot with no increase in potential payoff.
I don't think anyone is saying this won't be cool if it works. But if that cool shot comes at the cost of a series to a rightful winner, don't you think it'll be too high?
I don't think that most people in this thread have problems with the idea. It could be really useful. However, it should have been tested on random regular season games to work out any issues and as was mentioned previously, it's Fox. They are going to use it to get us overhead shots of whatever actor/actress from the show they are pushing this year they have planted in the stands or some other obnoxious ########.
off of the album, "Bad Company"
Indoor stadium; problem solved.
African or European?
Television has always had a pretty loose definition on what intrudes on the competition in all sports.
Only if all the players in the dugout leap up and run around the bases backwards.
And yes, my god, when MLB and Fox get together all kind of stupid breaks out.
Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden is also off the Iron Maiden album.
Except for A-Rod, who cuts across the pitcher's mound.
The same is true for Motorhead and Black Sabbath. So any other examples people can come up with? Self titled song on a self titled album.
All will be forgiven if they deliver downblouse shots of Emily Deschanel.
Too easy really. But are there any solo performers (preferably under their real name) who've done it?
The best i can do is "White Queen" off the album Queen II by Queen. But that's kind of a stretch.
Does King Diamond count?
Depending on how you want to read the collected body of Proust, maybe In Search of Lost Time. To paraphrase the Monty Python All-England Proust Summary Competition, the books is basically "Marcel by Marcel"
"My Name is Prince", by Prince, off the album that was titled as his new symbol name.
Hey, cool, a double escape. That is interesting...
The same is true for Motorhead and Black Sabbath. So any other examples people can come up with? Self titled song on a self titled album.
Public Image, by Public Image, on the album Public Image.
Major DJ pet peeve. The word you want is eponymous.
Following the pattern of self-published and self-edited, self-titled means he/she/they made up the title. Whenever I hear "That was from X's self-titled album," my reaction is "What are their other albums - agent-titled? focus group-titled? elf-titled?"
And while you're at it, get the hell off my lawn, you delinquents!
Wikipedia says you're wrong and I should have hyphenated.
I just gotta say I happened to see the old video for "Gett Off" on TV the other night and that jut has to be the horniest video ever made. I'm not saying that there aren't other videos that are smuttier or show more skin, but in terms of raw horny, this has to be the king.
Never heard him play.
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There's probably a music database that would make this a simple query.
Music-Reference.com?
Purchased!
A quick google turned up this list (see also comments), most of which have been mentioned.
Outrageously, a similar list was deleted from Wikipedia for being not important enough.
Okay, I'll do it. Then you don't know Diddley.
Post-apocalyptic Metalcore band Carnivore*, with the song "Carnivore", off the album with the same name!
*Lead singer was Peter Steele, who later put Type O Negative together and who died earlier this year, making me feel old.
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