Speaking of the YES Network,
fuck those guys. I assume it's their broadcast team producing the television feed from YS for our matches, and the feed yesterday was just godawful.
It was clear that the camera operators and the TD were completely ignorant of the idiom of televised soccer. All the framings were too tight so you could barely see a third of the pitch at one time and you had
zero sense of how the teams were shaped or when runs were being made or if a particular pass was dangerous or just a bloop into no-man's-land. It was way over-edited, destroying any sense of the rhythm of play, constantly cutting to close shots of specific players wandering around the field. And this was the alternative to the A camera shot whipping back and forth across the pitch unable to follow the action.
On Treats' dangerous free kick, the TD had the closeup of Treats up both during the runup and after the kick, not cutting away until the ball had pinged off the crossbar!
I was so disgusted and distracted by what a horrible job the production team was doing that I could barely pay attention to the game for most of the first half.
So, for me, one important aspect of getting our stadium is installing a TV production team who can do justice to the sport. I watched this match sandwiched between Everton v Chelsea and Cincy v Timbers and the contrast in quality was glaring.
