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Come for the Broadcast, Stay for the Mets Game

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The Diaz trot to the mound as his signature music blares [0] and deGrom, the best pitcher in baseball, warming up to his [1] are worth viewing in full. When used sparingly these cinematic shots add something really special to the fan experience. Us Mets fans are blessed with the broadcast quality as a whole.

[0] https://twitter.com/snytv/status/1556420701392969728

[1] https://twitter.com/SNYtv/status/1556377324496502784

Can't overstate how great the SNY booth is. It has gotten me to continue watching blowouts or when the Mets are just not playing well, purely for the commentary, insights, or just goofing around they do. I've come to realize how nice baseball is to have on in the background, especially when you have a nice mixture of the sounds and almost play-by-play calling Gary does to you know when something is happening or to pay more attention.

Edit: Just wanted to add that was a nice compilation video, especially the recent triple frame: batter and pitcher on top, wide cinematic view of pitcher to batter on the bottom. Well done.

they are fantastic and in fact are carrying on a Mets tradition.

i grew up listening to Mets hall of fame quality radio announcers like Bob Murphy, Gary Thorne, Gary Cohen call the Mets games (mid-80s when the Mets were still broadcast by an AM country music station - i believe 1050 - before they moved to 660).

to say they breathed life into baseball would be an understatement. you were at the ballpark, inside the player's and manager's heads.

NY baseball fans are extremely fortunate - you don't necessarily know it until you hear other teams (some of which are of course also awesome, but not all are).

I also grew up listening to those guys. In fact I actually still prefer the radio broadcast (as you know it's now on WCBS 880). Gary, Keith, and Ron get most of the much-deserved praise on the TV side, but truly Howie Rose and Wayne Randazzo are at the top of their craft on the radio side.

Edit: LFGM

i still prefer the radio as well #PIITB LFGM

As a Braves fan, I enjoyed seeing some of these new-to-me angles and features in games I saw on other broadcasts. I wish the Bally Sports South crew had some more playful takes like this. The Buck Showalter hit-by-pitch feature is pretty dang funny https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-t536p141B8

So, care to explain the inside baseball bit that makes this "pretty dang funny"?

I just see a guy shaking his head at the (assuming) dumb ass pitcher for hurling a wild through and putting a man on base for free. Whatever the rest of the video FX are doing, I don't know the point.

It references Beatrice Kiddo/ The Bride in the Tarantino films Kill Bill. I'm foregoing the spoiler warning for a movie from 2003, but the same music/red color is in the film whenever she recalls Bill killing her groom and bridal party, and shooting her in the face, leaving her for dead.

In 2022, the Mets were (are?) by far the team most likely to get hit by a pitch. It's a commentary on past trauma.

Hernandez is a huge bozo. Wonder if the Times will publish something like this when the Mets return to their bottom of the standing hopelessness as they are often?

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