Electric Josh

So now we're all excited and haven't a hope of getting to bed anytime soon. But more importantly, what are they going to do with this sign on westbound Storrow Drive now that it's been done?
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Only Fox, the network that made the NFL unwatchably blinky, could make baseball, the slowest, least flashy of all possible sports, into a friggin music video of fast cuts between extreme closeups of guys looking around, AOL logos throwing footballs out of sunbursts with whooshing noises, wide angle shots of Tony LaRussa milling about the dugout, pitchers doing something unidentifiable because the cut was too fast, extra jittery shots of randoms in the crowd, all made doubly annoying by the fact that there's a half-second delay on the normal view from center field over the pitcher's right shoulder, the view that actually tells us what's happening in the game, and the one that they often don't cut to until the pitch is on its way to the plate, or already there. Replays are indistinguishable from live action. Oh, and Tim McCarver is babbling unendingly. Saving the day are the mute button and the fact that for an inning or two we've been able to enjoy the usual temporary Red Sox fan's conceit that they might actually win.
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