Thoughts on the Trop

Hey gang, Jax in FX--

World Series Game 1 wasn't exactly what I hoped for with a Phillies win, but there were some things I appreciated.

1. The angles. One good part of Tropicana Field is that the camera that shows the mound and home plate is shot from so high in center field that it has a downward angle--blocking all the jerks on their cell phones behind home plate. Not only that, but the scoreboard banner that Fox uses on top blots out the entire front row of seats, leaving just baseball and a single ad banner to the left of home plate. It's great. Nobody's waving their arms franticaly or delivering $10 hot dogs, it's just baseball. It kinda reminds me of the Houston Astrodome with the turf and everything.

2. Pass the mic. Also, I liked how they had a mic on Rays Manager Joe Maddon during that balk. He yelled "That was a balk, that was bullshit," and a few million people heard him.

3. I think Tim McCarver is a jackass.

4. Fox Trax. It's that strike zone graphic they show to review pitches that looks like the K-Zone on ESPN but more ghetto. Anyway, I liked how the graphic showed balls that were called strikes and strikes that were called balls. Eat that, QuesTec.

5. Curt Schilling got it right on his blog. Phillies 1, Rays 0.