Missed calls. Delayed commentary. When broadcasters stay home, calling baseball can get ugly quickly.
The troubles on MASN and the Angels’ broadcast highlight two phenomena: the complications of calling a game off a screen vs. live at the park and the way regional sports networks are hoping to use new technologies deployed during the pandemic to cut costs.
At the park, Anderson would normally look at outfielders to help gauge a flyball, for example. “My eyes can travel 300 feet in a split second,” he said. “But on the monitor, batted balls can look like a foul ball. You can also use your ears at the park, how the ball sounds off the bat. That’s one thing I really lost — how it sounded and how the player reacts when he hits.
For most teams, travel became less of an issue last year. Vaccine doses were widely available, and going on the road was safer than during the 2020 season, when everything was remote. Most announcers remained grounded, but Berthiaume described a sense of desperation among some. Some radio folks, he was told, drove to away cities.
That production technology, while improving all the time, is far from perfect. The Angels tried to send a feed from Texas to California to New Jersey back to California before it went out to viewers with announcer commentary.
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