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It was for sure a drag that Steven Matz was a little off in his return to the rotation, and that after the Blue Jays managed to dig themselves out from underneath of all that, Patrick Murphy gave up a three-run home run in the top of the tenth. But the drag that was such a drag that it occluded all other drags on this night is that, rather than the pretty-much-peerless excellence of a Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez broadcast, or the good-natured easy vibes of a Buck Martinez and Pat Tabler one, this game was the MLB YouTube Game of the Week, or something, so we were visiting by the absolutely nonstop nattering of four people for whom I did not care on a broadcast designed, I think, for smarty-pantses? Posting run expectancy tables and speaking in darkly sarcastic tones about singles? What? Why? For who(m)? I am as FanGraphsed-up as the next person, I have been Bill-Jamesed for decades, and this was so absurdly heavy-handed that it kind of made me hate analytics for a little bit there, so what are we trying to achieve here? It was super, super annoying. And so incessant, like you couldn't even really hear the game for all their chattering about stuff they seem to have half-understood from the pages of Baseball Prospectus. As a national game, it also had that bothersome aspect about it wherein none of the people talking knew anywhere near as much about the teams they were calling than even the worst local broadcaster would, and so, much like a World Series broadcast on Fox, the commentators end up talking about everybody's contracts, which, during the actual game, is the lowest possible level of discourse. We muted it and had a pleasant enough time after doing so but golly. Where is Hazel Mae to tell me about the latest roster moves? What happened to Arash Madani and glacial pace that you kind of can't believe even as its happening? Guys, come back!
KS
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