Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Has any one noticed that during games on Fox and on ESPN the announcers will often give out an "award" for player of the game before the game itself has ended? This past Saturday on the East coast Fox game of the week Joe Buck declared that Kelly Johnson was the clutch player of the game. Now there is no problem with this and he ended up being the clutch player but to say this in the 8th makes no sense. On June 30, 2000 at Shea Stadium [a game I was at], the Mets scored 10 runs in the bottom of the 8th. In sports, anything can happen. You never know. They should stop trying to rush information. Waiting until the end whether it goes 9 innings or 16 makes more sense then having to change who the "award" goes to. (Which I have seen before.)