More examples of Fox murdering what could've been baseball

"There's another emerging habit among baseball casters that Buck Saturday displayed. It's the authoritative declaration of pure guesswork as absolute truths (see: ESPN, Joe Morgan). In the ninth, Miguel Cairo leaned back from a Wagner fastball that appeared to get plenty of plate and was called a strike. Cairo then looked back at the ump. "Cairo thought it was high and tight," Buck firmly stated. Maybe. Buck had no way of knowing. Cairo might have looked back for any of hundreds of reasons. Buck didn't know for sure because he couldn't know for sure - but he told us that he knew for sure, anyway. And speaking of bad habits, Fox, late in close games, now regularly loses focus in favor of finding close-ups of fans in all manner of dramatic anticipation, including distress and prayer. Saturday, top of the ninth, the Yanks have closed to 4-1, bases loaded, a 3-0 count to Kelly Stinnett . . . . . . and when Wagner threw ball four to force in a run, we never saw it. Fox instead had us watch a close-up of a fan watching Wagner throwing a 3-0 pitch with the bases loaded." from the New York Post, Phil Mushnick

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