The World Series on Fox, continued

In Richard Sandomir's NY Times column yesterday he quotes Peter Macheska, the coordinating producer of baseball for Fox, on why they were late showing Koltan Wong being picked off first by pitcher Koji Uehara for the final out, based on the Fox "philosophy"  of showing anxious faces to heighten the tension!  Macheska said "Baseball isn't the quickest sport; if we stay on the field and don't give all the reactions, it's not as exciting as when we do."  So instead of seeing the beauty of the game itself, poorly televised as it is, we get endless shots of the fans and the teams in their dugouts!  This is as condescending as the canned laughter of sitcoms that make them so unbearable for some of us; network executives having said that without canned laughter many viewers would not know when to laugh, though perhaps the lack of genuine humor in most sitcoms might be part of the problem. In any case, some of us know that baseball can be at its most beautiful when nothing is happening and Fox and other networks should work at capturing that beauty instead of showing endless reaction shots of the spectators.