Chris Singleton...maybe you had me fooled.

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Originally Posted by metsguy234

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about the episode of Baseball Tonight where HGM was the head analyst, thanks for reminding me.

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So the fact HGM has no professional baseball experience or connections to ESPN and the ESPN family(which is all that gets on air nowadays) makes him unable to talk about announcers?

LOVE that logic.

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Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989

So the fact HGM has no professional baseball experience or connections to ESPN and the ESPN family(which is all that gets on air nowadays) makes him unable to talk about announcers?

LOVE that logic.

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Yeah...really...:confused:

And I did a blog, but I'm too lazy to update it often so I stopped.

Well, HGM, you wouldn't be able to do half the job that the BT guys do...

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Well, HGM, you wouldn't be able to do half the job that the BT guys do...

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I wouldn't be able to run a TV show better, probably not, because I don't have much in-person charisma, and I'm not a good public speaker....but in terms of analyzing players, I think that myself along with COUNTLESS other non-TV personalities could do a much better job.

That's because ESPN doesn't choose their "analysts" based on their ability to...oh...I don't know...analyze. They choose their analysts based strictly on their on-screen persona. ESPN employs many people that would give much better analysis than the people they do parade as their "expert analysts", but those people rarely appear on TV, doing mostly internet work (Keith Law, Rob Neyer, Jerry Crasnick, etc.).

It's actually basic news strategy in this day and age to put you're most attractive, good personalities on camera and the people who actually know things behind it.

I'm taking broadcast television production 301 and we discussed whether this was quality journalism or not.

i said no. it's not but it gets ratings so it's smart journalism.

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i said no. it's not but it gets ratings so it's smart journalism.

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Actually, that'd be smart business. I say it's stupid and intellectually limiting journalism.

But that's what the media is nowadays, a business, and little more.

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Actually, that'd be smart business. I say it's stupid and intellectually limiting journalism.

But that's what the media is nowadays, a business, and little more.

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Oops your right that's what I meant to say.

Media has always been a business. Since the 1920's. Yellow Journalism rules.