Effectively Wild Episode 2097: How to Direct a Baseball Broadcast

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the implications of Shohei Ohtani ’s unprecedentedly deferred contract structure, whether the Ohtani signing and Juan Soto trade portend MLB imbalance driven by the bursting cable bundle (21:42), whether the Dodgers will ever be bad again (28:06), media hang-wringing over Friday’s false reports (35:58), and the Tyler O’Neill trade (42:57). Then they talk to John DeMarsico , SNY Mets game director and cinephile, about how he’s applied his affinity for film to baseball, the behind-the-scenes mechanics and rhythms of baseball broadcasts, what makes baseball so tough to televise, innovative technology and techniques, showing more of exciting plays, copying and being copied, Gary, Keith, and Ron, the use of stats and graphics, baseball movies, and more (47:45). Audio intro : Ted O., “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Audio outro : Josh Busman, “ Effectively Wild Theme ” Link to Fabian’s Ohtani report Link to more from Fabian Link to Ben on Ohtani’s deal Link to Lindsey on Ohtani’s deal Link to Baumann on Ohtani’s deal Link to Becker on Ohtani’s deal Link to Becker’s contract math Link to Tim Dierkes on Ohtani’s deal Link to Rob Mains on Ohtani’s deal Link to Tom Verducci on Ohtani’s deal Link to Adam Morris on Ohtani’s deal Link to FG MLB payroll page Link to L.A. Times on Ohtani Link to Jack Harris tweet Link to Clemens on the cable bubble Link to Sheehan on the cable bubble Link to info on Dodgers RSN Link to Ben on L.A. in 2015 Link to Nightengale on the media Link to “Vivaldi” tweet Link to Dodgers Nation post Link to flight-tracking info Link to Wired on flight-tracking Link to Baumann on O’Neill Link to EW Episode 2033 Link to EW Episode 2035 Link to Rangers-Rays play Link to Sam on the play Link to Díaz entrance video Link to Showalter/Tarantino video Link to SNY pitch clock video Link to SNY “ghost runner” video Link to SNY BTS “ghost runner” video Link to NYT on DeMarsico Link to Newsday on DeMarsico Link to NY Mag on DeMarsico Link to DeMarsico on Letterboxd Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Twitter Account EW Subreddit Effectively Wild Wiki iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source