[Questdog]

Just had my .179 hittin' catcher with 5 career home runs hit a 430 ft. broken bat home run....

Am I the only one, or is there anyone else who wishes the derned text would make some sense....

"He hits a rocket.... this will be an easy play...."

"He comes chargin' in on that fly ball....it's OUTTA HERE!!!"

"This is any easy double play...." (Well, if it's so easy, then why wasn't it?...)

"This should be automatic.....Wow!....It doesn't get any closer than that...stellar play!!...."

"Grounder to the shortstop...Here's the throw to first....he's in under the tag..."

"Ground ball to second.....it'll drop for a hit..."

"Grounder to short....Smith slams his bat down in disgust, he knows this should be two....throw to second...out!....throw to first....Smith beats it out....he really hustled...." (Taking the time to slam your bat should insure that it WILL be two...)

"That pitch is a strike...Wait a minute, the ump's called a balk!" (Well, he wouldn't have called the pitch a strike, if he's calling a balk)

"He fumbles it and just eats it for an error...that will be a two base error" (Did he literally eat the ball? How else could you get two bases?)

"That's a fly ball behind the plate....the second/third/first baseman is there" (Fly balls are only to the outfield. Pop ups are behind the plate and those are caught by the catcher...)

"Here's the throw to third...not in time!...he's out!" (I guess they mean the runner's not in time....)

"He got all of that one....the leftfielder is there for the catch..." (If you get ALL of a pitch, no one can catch it....)

And zillions more....

Anyway, unless descriptive text is truly descriptive of the action then it's just annoying. Often, I don't even know what's happening ("That's a flyball....Wilson ranges for the catch..." Where's Wilson??). And all the little snippets of wisdom ("That's poetry in motion!") and attempts to build suspense get old fast when you play out every game (after a week, you'll know exactly how the play will end up as soon as the sound byte begins....) At least they could be things a real announcer would say and not some hokum schmokum... I would prefer to have just a plain vanilla explanation of the action that would sound more professional, be more specific of what is happening, and be more tolerable over the long season and let my own imagination provide the color commentary.