A’s Superfan Network: California 20, Washington State 17

Posted at 12:48 pm on Sunday, November 11, 2007, in A's Superfan Network, Podcast.

Last weekend, the A’s Superfan Network made an attempt of broadcasting a college football game in Berkeley at the Cal-WaSU game. My alma mater ended up holding off the Cougars in not-so exciting fashion. The level of difficulty in broadcasting between baseball and football is stark and steep. In baseball, one can sit back and comment on the game while a play pretty much goes on. In football, there are twenty-two players doing something at once.

For example, in baseball, a play-by-play may go, “Johnson steps in, Miller on second, Johnson is hitting three thirty-three on the season, doubled his last time up, and the pitch, ball one, low and away, Johnson leads the team in RBI and is second in all of baseball with thirty doubles, and the one-oh pitch, a hard line drive to left-center, that may go to the wall, it does, it gets by the centerfielder, Miller rounding third, he will score easy, Johnson is into second with a stand-up double, three to two Blue Jays.”

And in football… “Wilson under center, third and seven from their own forty-two, they need a first down to keep the clock moving, James split out left, he has had a record day, eight receptions for a buck twenty-two, Davis comes in motion from the slot, five seconds on the play clock, Wilson takes the snap, fakes the hand-off, play-action left, sees no one open, rolls to the right, now he has got to move, oh what a block, Wilson still back there, waiting for someone to come open, and now he decides to run, makes a cut, gets hit, fumble, the ball is free, someone’s got it, who will it be, the defense is saying they’ve got it, the refs haven’t made their call, and the defense has it, Smitty comes up with it, what a hit by Fielder on Wilson, knocking the ball free, the defense comes up with the loose ball, first down Wildcats, they need a touchdown to tie, three minutes twenty seconds left in the game. Oh my.”

You see what I mean? If not, you will after listening to the podcast…

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