Did Fox just cut off half the screen on Obama's pitch on purpose?

They must have 30 cameras there and they can't show Obama's pitch crossing the plate?

I might be nuts but that was no accident.

Never seen that before. EVER

That way, you can see the pitch AND the catch.

That was bullshit.

Guess it could have been worse, though. They could have showed only the catch, and not the pitch.

for what everybody was interested in on that particular pitch.

that was no accident

Sometimes a bad camera angle is just a bad camera angle

.... I think they know where to get the shot from. Like from behind the pitcher to the catcher not from the side of the pitcher
with a hand held camera.

a sports director knows the essence of the broadcast is to see the action. Which means they should have followed the pitch.

ruggerson (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-14-09 08:53 PM
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11. It's already on CBS Radio that Fox deliberately did not show his pitch.

Either that or they're dangerously incompetant.

Not all Fox's are the same. Fox News is not the same as Fox TV, Fox Sports, etc. But some DUers just dont get that.

His evil tendrils have a mighty reach.

Otherwise Fox TV would have failed years ago.

Did you hear some of the boos? People were overwhelmingly cheering though. It wasn't like when Cheney went to Yankee Stadium.

But the camera angle was no accident.

thought..not that there wouldn't be any die hard repukes there.

booing the Sox jacket.

Of course Fox didn't want a good shot of it. It'll be out there on highlights, youtube tho.

but yeah...it was a no doubter of a pitch. Smack into Pujols glove.

and normally, I see both the pitch and the catch in baseball games.

after his name being put up by fox. Maybe if he would have thrown a bad pitch they would have.

It was a terrible pitch.

while he was in the booth, from the more traditional over-the-shoulder view you see during the broadcast. The pitch bounced a couple of inches before the plate, as, frankly, most first pitches do (it looks short on the TV, but step onto a major league diamond sometime - it's a hell of a lot longer from the mound to the plate).

It could simply be they were declining to show the end of the pitch so as to avoid showing it bounce.

Yup. Murdoch orders. That was straight bullshit	Thrill	Jul-14-09 08:47 PM	#1
Me either. Usual angle is behind and to the right of the pitcher.	SeattleGirl	Jul-14-09 08:49 PM	#3
It's hard to imagine how anyone would think that would be a USEFUL angle...	BlooInBloo	Jul-14-09 08:48 PM	#2
The most important part is seeing where it crosses the plate	Botany	Jul-14-09 08:50 PM	#6
Talk about ridiculous conspiracy theories	MadBadger	Jul-14-09 08:49 PM	#4
T.V. has been covering baseball from 1947 .....	Botany	Jul-14-09 08:51 PM	#8
Its ridiculous yes, but the FOX director is either a novice or a dumbass	Uzybone	Jul-14-09 08:51 PM	#9
KO might have some enlightenment	Cha	Jul-14-09 09:00 PM	#18
Oh yeah?	Cha	Jul-14-09 08:57 PM	#17
Oh yeah. DUers automatically think that anytime any branch of Fox "wrongs" them its a conspiracy	MadBadger	Jul-14-09 09:03 PM	#20
They reported it on CBS	Cha	Jul-14-09 09:04 PM	#21
Do you have a quote from CBS Radio?	MadBadger	Jul-14-09 09:08 PM	#25
No, it's not Fox news, but I think it's still owned by Murdoch.	SeattleGirl	Jul-14-09 09:06 PM	#23
He does, but that doesnt mean he exerts his influence on those branches	MadBadger	Jul-14-09 09:07 PM	#24
You're likely right, but did you watch it?	BlooInBloo	Jul-14-09 09:18 PM	#29
Yeah, and if anything, Fox Sports looked like a bunch of amateurs.	MadBadger	Jul-14-09 09:21 PM	#30
Ok.	BlooInBloo	Jul-14-09 09:23 PM	#31
Apparently it was a good pitch.	AllieB	Jul-14-09 08:49 PM	#5
some Boos dues to White Sox jacket in a NL park	krawhitham	Jul-14-09 08:54 PM	#12
That's how I saw it too	senseandsensibility	Jul-14-09 08:57 PM	#15
Exactly..my	Cha	Jul-14-09 09:17 PM	#27
That is what I thought too. There is no way to know how many were Republicans and how many were	Pirate Smile	Jul-14-09 09:18 PM	#28
little short of the plate, would have been a ball	Thothmes	Jul-15-09 06:25 AM	#32
Agreed. They seemed fixated on showing him from ground up.	ellisonz	Jul-14-09 08:50 PM	#7
It was a great pitch, right across the plate.	Avalux	Jul-14-09 08:52 PM	#10
It's already on CBS Radio that Fox deliberately did not show his pitch	ruggerson	Jul-14-09 08:53 PM	#11
That seemed planned to me.	Thrill	Jul-14-09 08:56 PM	#13
Here's YouTube with better angle	Stephanie	Jul-14-09 08:56 PM	#14
Thanks. Its not a better angle, just a wider TV	Uzybone	Jul-14-09 09:00 PM	#19
Wider TV really doesn't explain it. I don't have a wide screen,	SeattleGirl	Jul-14-09 09:08 PM	#26
I was waiting for the (R)	wantoutnow	Jul-14-09 08:57 PM	#16
Of course they did. Are you surprised? nt	Jakes Progress	Jul-14-09 09:06 PM	#22
If so, they did him a favor.	Balbus	Jul-15-09 09:21 AM	#33
One, they showed it later	PVnRT	Jul-15-09 09:28 AM	#34