The Red Sox have barely performed on Thursdays this 12 months. Along with the numerous scheduled off-days they’ve, there was even a rain out on a Thursday!
There was additionally a sport that solely lasted three innings in opposition to the Cincinnati Reds earlier than rain pressured it to be resumed the next afternoon. Then there was that weekend in Washington with a rain delay, albeit a brief one which didn’t drive the beginning pitchers to go away. And, as quickly as Wednesday’s finale in opposition to the Rockies was completed, the Sox grounds crew put down the tarp. And, sure, it’s raining proper now.
Rain has been an element this 12 months, because it normally is. No, the Crimson Sox don’t want a dome, that’s loopy discuss. Baseball doesn’t really feel proper indoors. However they do want some innovation in rain delay progamming. It’s time.
And I’ve now had extra time to consider this than I’d like, so let’s discuss what the Crimson Sox and NESN ought to do with rain delays:
- Why not restart the printed? That is principally for bizarre delays just like the current one in D.C. That delay was so brief that Dave O’Brien may’ve made a rapid announcement to say “Hey, in case you joined late we’re simply re-airing the primary couple of minutes of this sport throughout a quick delay. Overlook ‘Sox in Two’ you possibly can catch up proper now!” For those who’re streaming the sport, that’s higher than lifeless air. It additionally offers us the chance for OB to interrupt in with “and now we rejoin the Crimson Sox already in progress” prefer it’s the Eighties.
- No matter else you do, DON’T AIR ANYMORE CHARLIE MOORE OUTDOORS. No mad fisherman, please. Actual query: does anybody truly watch NESN content material that isn’t the Crimson Sox or Bruins? The meals present? The Boston vs New York poker present they’d again when pokermania was sweeping the nation? Crimson Sox courting? At the very least a few of these have been actual reveals, I swear.
- Interviews. It is a little difficult as a result of I’m certain they like to do in-game interviews, nicely, in-game. However the 1975 night time in opposition to the Reds would’ve been the right time to do extra. That they had Sox legends at Fenway Park proper there, able to go. Might Dave O’Brien actually not have executed a couple of minutes with the visitors who have been already in the home? Or carry Tom Caron over? These guys have extra to say than a one inning hit permits. Wouldn’t which have been enjoyable? This wouldn’t be an each time factor, but when you are able to do an interview with guys who, I assume, aren’t all the time on the town, why not reap the benefits of that?
- Flip to a traditional sport. Persons are tuning out anyway, however why not stick on a traditional sport from the archives? Give us both a superb sport from the present season or one thing folks will know from the previous and other people would watch.
- NESN specials? We all know they do particular work across the varied World Series wins. There are canned interviews somebody may string collectively only for a rain delay. YouTube is crammed with The Better of Don and Jerry. Now, I do know that Don Orsillo is a sore level for the group. However as a substitute of pretending he would not exist, think about if the Sox go into rain delay and also you get a clip present of “right here comes the pizza” or “dentist Don” or “Stuffy McInnis” or the lamp? I may go on eternally.
- Simply go away the digital camera on. This additionally most likely presents some points, however I’m considering extra of a screensaver kind ting. Set the digital camera, zoom in, let the rain noises do their factor. We have already got the pretend model of this with Baseball Zen.
If it does rain tonight and also you get your Thursday again, will you really need it again? Or do you wish to watch half-hour a few pizza being thrown at Fenway Park? Let’s do higher.
