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primeideal) wrote2021-07-20 11:05 pm
primeideal) wrote2021-07-20 11:05 pm
Baseball
Today MLB had its first all-women broadcasting crew for a game. It was part of their "YouTube game of the week" series which I'm not super familiar with, and involved the Orioles (who are terrible), but I had to watch. (I usually follow the Cubs, who have had a women "sideline announcer"/"let's go to Taylor for some backstory on XYZ." Which is fun, especially because she's close to my age and sometimes trolls the oldsters about their being old, but sometimes feels like a pigeonholed "men do the real stuff, women do fluffy backstory pieces. For Mothers' Day weekend they had a woman as part of the main crew, though.)
Anyway, part of the YouTube shtick for "making the game cool and hip for the youth" is micing people up, and the clips of random players talking that they compiled after the game were pretty funny. If it's originally in Spanish they put written translations in as well. So there was one conversation about "All those Tampa Bay players look huge on TV but in person, they're tiny. I had no idea Wander Franco was that small. But they have big hearts for playing baseball," d'aww. And "did you know this is the first all-women broadcaster crew?" "Today?" "Yeah, dude, I heard about it on MLB Network." (Nice product placement!) "Well that's important, it's good that women are carving out these opportunities." "Yes, especially because they're all smarter than us anyway." hahahaha. In the postgame show the announcers were like "it is pretty weird that the players are commenting on us and we're being asked to do interviews, usually it is the other way around." But IDK, I think about my second-grade self with her articulation difficulties and baseball nerdiness and how cool it would have been for her to hear that. It's good to know these opportunities are on the way and even though they were the first team, they'll be far from the last. <3
Anyway, part of the YouTube shtick for "making the game cool and hip for the youth" is micing people up, and the clips of random players talking that they compiled after the game were pretty funny. If it's originally in Spanish they put written translations in as well. So there was one conversation about "All those Tampa Bay players look huge on TV but in person, they're tiny. I had no idea Wander Franco was that small. But they have big hearts for playing baseball," d'aww. And "did you know this is the first all-women broadcaster crew?" "Today?" "Yeah, dude, I heard about it on MLB Network." (Nice product placement!) "Well that's important, it's good that women are carving out these opportunities." "Yes, especially because they're all smarter than us anyway." hahahaha. In the postgame show the announcers were like "it is pretty weird that the players are commenting on us and we're being asked to do interviews, usually it is the other way around." But IDK, I think about my second-grade self with her articulation difficulties and baseball nerdiness and how cool it would have been for her to hear that. It's good to know these opportunities are on the way and even though they were the first team, they'll be far from the last. <3