Ted Lily put on a clinic on How Not To Pitch to Lefties. In the bottom of the first in Philly, he has two outs with Rollins on third and the Flying Hawaiin on second. He throws a fastball off the outside corner to Raul Ibanez, bringing the count to 1-2. So of course Ibanez starts to cheat over the outside corner. Instead of busting him in and maybe getting the called 3rd, he goes back to the well with a fastball on the outside corned. It get deposited 430ft over the centerfield fence. If you are a southpaw, YOU NEVER THROW A LEFTY BATTER TWO STRAIGHT FASTBALLS ON THE SAME PLANE IN THE SAME SPOT IN THE ZONE. Unforgivable. The first pitch reminds them to wait and keep their front shoulder in. The second pitch is their payoff for not being retarded. Absolutely horrifying. This resulted in my second swearing warning at the EAC. FYI, explaining this fact to the old lady on the treadmill next to you will not take the look of disgust off her face.
Okay......With the release of this EA peep hole video , I think now is a good time for me to explain my love and appreciation for her besides the obvious. I am a huge broadcasting snob and hate bad reporting/coverage. I also will go overboard for great color guys and go out of my way to watch their games. I watch White Sox games just to hear Steve Stone talk about pitching. Erin Andrews is the best sideline reporter in the business.
EA is disciplined enough and/or cares enough about the viewers/her craft to never ask questions that start with "Tell me about......" or "Talk about......" Nothing pisses me of more than lazy garbage like that. Watch a NBA game and all the sideline reporters will ask "tell me about Kobe in the last seven minutes", "talk about your defense", "talk about how you made an adjustment." These clowns have unbelievable view of the action, overhear sideline huddles, have the benefit of pregame meetings with the staffs, and have watched hundreds of games in the past year, it is unforgivable that they can't turn their brain on for two seconds and stop being lazy slapdicks.
EA gets up next to the coach or player and sticks the microphone right in their face. And she asks pointed questions based on what she heard earlier in the day or what she watched. She is the 3rd best thing on ESPN college football's coverage after Todd Blackledge and Jesse Palmer. Herbstreit is still good when he snaps after Brent finishes his 7th Knob Creek on the rocks. If this video sidetracks her, I will be so pissed off. She should be getting ready to make the jump to superstardom. If her talent ends up being wasted like Lindsay Lohan's, I am going to cry and spend a month living like Martin Sheen in the beginning of Apocalypse Now.
EA is not the only good female on ESPN's football coverage. Susie Kolber is only a tick behind Trey Wingo as the best point person on NFL Live and she does a great job moderating the Draft stuff. I would pay an extra $200 a year for cable to replace Berman with her and Wingo for all football coverage.Wendi Nix does a great job on the desk for Saturday's studio show. She is direct with the highlights and does a nice job setting up Palmer.
Besides the pregame shows, I think ESPN does a phenomenal job of their football coverage and can't wait to resume 18 games a weekend. Hell, I can't wait for Todd's Taste of the Town. Its basically a bootleg version of Guy Fieri's Triple D.
One Idea: How about having EA going to the bars the friday night before like a pared down version of E! Wild On? Who would not watch this?
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