Lots of people watched yesterday’s game
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Apr 07, 2009 
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This from The YES Network:
Yesterday’s Yankees-Orioles Season Opener on YES (4:15-8:00 pm) generated a 5.84 average TV Household Rating (541,000 Total Viewers), making it the highest-rated weekday daytime sports event ever on a New York regional sports network.
The telecast peaked at a 7.6 average TV Household Rating (679,000 Total Viewers) from 7:00 to 7:15 pm. The previous highest-rated weekday daytime sports event ever on a New York regional sports network was the July 4, 2008 Red Sox-Yankees game on YES which generated a 5.20 average TV Household Rating.
This is just the saddest, saddest thing. Via Hoch’s blog, I clicked on Olbermann’s blog. To find out his mother died on Saturday. He writes about the Knobby was horrified by it all, but it made Keith’s mom famous.
http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/
So sad.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a.....joba1.html
Too bad it was a total poo-fest of a game.
That July 4th game was a riveting Rasner-Beckett matchup. We lost 6-3 I think.
“I don’t think he necessarily needs to do anything more than he did in spring training” — Girardi (on Brett Gardner).
Hit .379 with an OPS of 1.067 and project for 24 HRs, 96 Runs, 56 RBI and and 40 SB?
That’s all
“Santana seems to have better damage control ability than CC.”
No pitcher will have damage control ability when he can’t locate his fastball within 2 feet of the target. Santana’s damage control is different… he went from being a mid-90s fastball, changeup, slider guy to a high 80s/low 90s fastball, changeup pitcher. He physically can’t throw as hard, and doesn’t dare try to throw the slider. CC still has the ability to throw all of his pitches at a high level, but yesterday he just couldn’t find the mark. It happens to every pitcher now and again.
Strange thing was that I watched this game and I was nervous, upset like it was a playoff game. So many chances to win that game and it ended up being a microcosm of 2008. It was just 1 game of 162 but I think it was because of the errors, bad base running, lack of timely hitting, and poor pitching that I got so upset – too many reminders of 2008.
m,
Thanks for that post re Olbermann’s mother.
My grandmother made me a Yankee fan. I’m greatful she did.
or grateful. either way.
wow. bummer for Keith. I met him on the 4 train after the Friday night cubs game. He seemed a bit subdued. Very nice guy though.
There was no Net in the way either!
William Buckner,
I bet your grandmother was a loyal fan. The ladies usually are.
Keith’s mother went to Yankees games for 60 years. Try to digest that.
I had heard the story about Keith’s dad boycotting the Yankees before. How many bad starts by CC before people start boycotting the 2009 Yankees?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a.....joba1.html anyone care to comment on this?
Dan
what’s it about? I don’t blindly click on links I usually like a hint as to what the article is about.
dan,
What’s there to say? Didn’t they say it was a clip from Reno 911?
vito,
i relate.i felt like it was a game 7.they played bad baseball yesterday.THEY WILL GET ALOT BETTER.
Tyler Kepner: “After his trainer left him to work out on the bike, Rodriguez put on headphones and set to work pedaling while watching the Yankees’ game on the television monitor in front of him.”
Glad to see that Alex is keeping up with the games.
Dan,
Um, no. It’s an old story. Move on.
How’s that for a comment?
Guseppe Franco didint you go under? hows about them apples?
its jobas arrest video, its worth a look rather than people screaming about yesterdays loss, ha
Dan,
Why do you post the same link three times and insisting people comment on a story that’s five months old?
It’s not hard to understand. Nobody cares.
Michael Kay has spent the last hour talking about the NCAA championship game.
BTW – After seeing those Wolverine commercials 46 times I refuse to go see it now.
ok guseppe, you shut in stuck in moms basement with your puter and beef jerkey, you rule the board here
Mike Fran having a good interview with #6 Roy White
We commented on that story months ago… you can check the monthly archives for the discussion(s).
Imagine the outcry if A-Rod said that about NYC? But Joba did, so its ok.
not the story, the video, the video is there
geesh man,
Dan,
Yeah, that’s original.
Find some insightful material people want to discuss and you may get the attention you so desperately seek.
I was soo mad yesterday when I got home and the game was blacked out on ESPN…then I realized it was blacked out because I’m in a MASN area (Richmond, VA) and the game was on there! It’s been too long of an offseason!
Anyway, I’d be curious what the TOTAL number of people watching the game yesterday was. I’m sure I could find it somewhere, but I don’t have the patience for such things.
dan
April 7th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
not the story, the video, the video is there
geesh man,
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BUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
The alarm on your deep fryer just went off. I’m not paying for overcooked fries from you, Ronald,
Well, I’ll comment on the video. Didn’t look too drunk to me. Very respectful to the officer and not belligerent at all.
As for the “dialogue” where he trash talked New York? That’s from Reno 9-1-1.
ha ha ha funny stuff, a man named gusieppe franco offering critiques on attention getting,,,,how will you make it tomorrow night? you better hope mom payed your cable bill while you keep saving for smokes from the piggly wiggly
GB7
Mike Fran just interviewd Roy White – pretty good.
They usually have them availble for replay.
He has a book out “And then Roy said to Mickey, the best Yankees stories ever told”
All of C.C.’s 24 teammates will put him back together again.
I don’t care what their ratings are, all I know is that Randy Levine and those fatcats along with YES engineers had better figure out a way to better present Yankee Stadium come opening day than shooting through that protective net, or I will refuse to watch a single Yankees home game this year if that is not fixed. Would rather listen to the game than watch that amateur, bush league presentation of a game to the fans. YES loves to tout themselves about this and that award I notice, yet they can’t get a decent camera shot, that shows the beauty of the new stadium from behind home plate.
As one fan exclaimed, I am sure I am not the first, nor I will be the
last to complain about the new stadium home viewing situation. I have been a Yankee fan for 45 years and always look forward to the spring and the start of another baseball season. So when I sat down
the other day to watch the first televised game from the new stadium, I was immediately disappointed.
The camera is
behind the SCREEN! All you see is the SCREEN!. Every infield
play the camera has to refocus past the SCREEN before it picks
up the play. On every home run, all you see is the
SCREEN, and as the camera follows the ball, more wires are
seen. There are wires all over the place. It’s completely
UNWATCHABLE! I guess when the engineers and architects
designed the new stadium, they anticipated all the players and
fans needs and catered to their whims. Except they forgot one
segment of Yankee fans-THE HOME VIEWERS!
I guess we’re not that important to you. I mean all we do is buy all the crap that is advertised, and boost your ratings so you can
charge more for commercials. I don’t understand how this screen problem was omitted from the new design. Every game now will look like a spring training game.
The old stadium screen was draped over the fans so that the mezzanine camera was above it. Why wasn’t that done now? Oh, I forgot,THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE HOME VIEWERS,
WE’RE INSIGIFICANT. Whoever is responsible for this atrocity
has already ruined my enjoyment of Yankee baseball
for the year. It looks like now I will be watching only
road games and listening to home games on radio. I know no one
is going to answer this letter. Anyway,
THANKS A LOT YES AND YANKEES.
You’ve ruined a once proud tradition in the Bronx.
I’m not trying to knock the Yankees as I am a Yankee fan myself. But the weather had to play a big part in the ratings.
wow everyone come back off the ledge, buy some guiseppe franco, and chil the f out
“Cal
April 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I don’t care what their ratings are, all I know is that Randy Levine and those fatcats along with YES engineers had better figure out a way to better present Yankee Stadium come opening day than shooting through that protective net, or I will refuse to watch a single Yankees home game this year if that is not fixed. Would rather listen to the game than watch that amateur, bush league presentation of a game to the fans. YES loves to tout themselves about this and that award I notice, yet they can’t get a decent camera shot, that shows the beauty of the new stadium from behind home plate.
As one fan exclaimed, I am sure I am not the first, nor I will be the
last to complain about the new stadium home viewing situation. I have been a Yankee fan for 45 years and always look forward to the spring and the start of another baseball season. So when I sat down
the other day to watch the first televised game from the new stadium, I was immediately disappointed.
The camera is
behind the SCREEN! All you see is the SCREEN!. Every infield
play the camera has to refocus past the SCREEN before it picks
up the play. On every home run, all you see is the
SCREEN, and as the camera follows the ball, more wires are
seen. There are wires all over the place. It’s completely
UNWATCHABLE! I guess when the engineers and architects
designed the new stadium, they anticipated all the players and
fans needs and catered to their whims. Except they forgot one
segment of Yankee fans-THE HOME VIEWERS!
I guess we’re not that important to you. I mean all we do is buy all the crap that is advertised, and boost your ratings so you can
charge more for commercials. I don’t understand how this screen problem was omitted from the new design. Every game now will look like a spring training game.
The old stadium screen was draped over the fans so that the mezzanine camera was above it. Why wasn’t that done now? Oh, I forgot,THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE HOME VIEWERS,
WE’RE INSIGIFICANT. Whoever is responsible for this atrocity
has already ruined my enjoyment of Yankee baseball
for the year. It looks like now I will be watching only
road games and listening to home games on radio. I know no one
is going to answer this letter. Anyway,
THANKS A LOT YES AND YANKEES.
You’ve ruined a once proud tradition in the Bronx.”
Quoted for Truth! God Bless you Cal, that net was horrible. I’m still waiting for Pete’s story about how much people hate it and now the Yankees are going to fix it!
“Quoted for Truth! God Bless you Cal, that net was horrible. I’m still waiting for Pete’s story about how much people hate it and now the Yankees are going to fix it!”
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo....._loss.html
Noted Yankee hater Bob Raisman wrote about it in the Daily News. It’s about the only time I was happy to hear him comment on the Yankees. It doesn’t sound like Levine or any of the YES people seem to think its too big of a deal to fix.
The text I posted above was from another frustrated long time fan who just feel insulted that YES presented the two Cubs games with that net and wiring all over the camera shot and you never got a feel for the stadium, its dimensions, the field from that vantage point at home. Nets and Wires were all over the camera shots.
What is more troubling is the words coming from Randy Levine
“We had the choice: fan safety or a tiny difference in that high home shot for YES,” said Randy Levine, the Yankees’ president. “We did this after consulting with a lot of experts.”
Levine said the netting was not a consequence of the $1.5-billion stadium’s design, but entirely about protecting fans. “The netting is a safety issue that has nothing to do with the premium seats,” he said. “The netting would be the same with inexpensive seats.”
He added: “If the netting were lower, it wouldn’t be safe for the fans behind it.”
A lot of experts he said, this guy just never gets it.
Even the YES spokesman seem to have gotten his step in line orders
Some dude named Erich Handler ““We’re looking at everything and trying to be as creative as possible.” The home plate camera position was shifted from one that was originally higher and showed cables and wires.”
According to a sports historian the old stadium along with Fenway Park used to have the best home plate cameras in baseball
“The old stadium had, with Fenway Park, the best in the big leagues’ home plate camera,” Curt Smith, a sportscasting historian, said by e-mail. He said the old position was low enough to make viewers feel like a “participant, not a spectator, and unimpeded by the backstop screen.”
That is no longer the case for us humble home dwellers.
What is more troubling according to a report is “During Saturday afternoon’s Yankees-Cubs exhibition game at the stadium, YES seemed to avoid using the camera shot as much as it normally would. The team and YES have until opening day on April 16 to try to ameliorate the problem. But the layout of the stadium, well known since 2006, seems to argue against the likelihood of any possible alteration.”