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| a broken bat doesn't have to be a metaphor but it also doesn't have to not be a metaphor |
"It’s easy, and it’s seductive," Toni Morrison once wrote, "to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another.” Surprising no one, Toni Morrison has perfectly articulated the reasons why Apple TV+'s baseball broadcast stinks, and is bad. Luckily, the little "real-time probabilities" they constantly post in the corner of the screen are such a ridiculous parody of actual analytics that they are funny to me (haha) and I am not at all upset about them (haha) or bothered to distraction (haha). Heroic FanGraphs lifer Ben Clemens has gone into the specifics here with admirable thoroughness and specificity, and I invite you to peruse his findings at your leisure (he doesn't even get into the problem that, earlier in the evening, plagued Milwaukee Brewers viewers specifically: the Apple TV+ score overlay blocks out beloved Brewers superfan Front Row Amy completely [imagine a Blue Jays broadcast that obscured Home Plate Lady, or Geddy Lee]). So, even before Lourdes Gurriel kind of booped a ball over the fence with his glove for a Mariners homerun (like *boop*), or Sergio Romo gave up the eleventh-inning three-run home run that ended it, this one wasn't a whole lot of fun to watch. Another nice start for Ross Stripling, though!
KS
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