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ESPN announcers miss Yankees injury
Sure, watching the Yankees on YES or listening to them on the radio is essentially a love fest. Watching any sports broadcast on FOX is an exercise in torture and futility. But ESPN straight up misses stuff. There comes a point in every Sunday Night Baseball episode where the game no longer holds Jon Miller's attention and he'll bring up some current events. Now, it's the crew's job to support what they're doing - if they talk about Andy Pettitte, the director calls for a shot of Andy Pettitte and a camera man gets the shot, the technical director makes the switch, so on. So you can't really blame anyone for not watching the game and paying attention to what's going on accept the 2 guys who are getting paid to do commentary on the game in question.
Joe Morgan and Jon Miller were asleep again at the switch last night. You can read about Jose Molina's hamstring injury here, but we didn't hear them say a word about it during the game. We're not saying they should have noticed he hurt himself sliding into home plate - we missed that, too. But when he singled in the 8th inning and barely made it to first base, it was clear he had an injury. But no, they chatted on about nonsense that no reasonable baseball fan cares about.
But, we'll say this for ESPN - at least they showed the entire game.
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