THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Great read there.

The worst thing about FoxTrax was that it didn’t let you see the actual puck. I don’t have any problem following the puck on TV, unless it is obscured by a giant blue/red fuzz ball. I don’t want to follow an approximation of the puck, I want to follow the puck. If they would have avoided overwhelming the puck with their graphics, I would have been ok with it.

For some reason, it’s not a problem when a baseball is hit to the OF, and all you see is the outfielder.

You don’t follow the puck all-the-way (just as needed), but you follow the players all-the-way.

I was just thinking on sunday when in the Metrodome how fans think routine flyouts are homeruns off the bat.  The problem is that they are watching the ball instead of the player.  If they watched the outfielder (and in some cases, the batter) they’d know right away if the ball had potential to be an XBH.  I wonder if they did have an angle on tv that showed the flight of the ball all the time if fans would get similarly fooled, or if they’d start to be able to tell off the bat.