Cherished sportscasters do their best work in blowouts, and YES producer Troy Benjamin and director Dan Barr did that in the Yankees’ game Thursday.
It may be worth the retelling that in 1781, when Gen. Cornwallis surrendered the British army at Yorktown, the legend persists he had his fife and drum corps play a song called “The World Turned Upside Down.”Consider that the annual Sports Emmy for “outstanding live special” is often awarded to the network fortunate enough to own the rights to a memorable event, especially one with a close ending.
Thursday night, YES producer Troy Benjamin and director Dan Barr, if you could make it to the end of a game the Yankees were losing 11-1 , rewarded the die-hards, stir crazy and those with restless leg disorders with a fun-filled top of the ninth.Corey Sipkin for the NY Postand ballpark food-taster Paul O’Neill in the booth, the truck found footage of O’Neill as a 1987 garbage-time reliever for the Reds.
But the good stuff wasn’t over. Kiner-Falefa was hit hard, but didn’t allow a run. As he walked off the mound, he headed to the home plate ump with his throwing hand and glove both palms-up. Smiling, he wanted to be inspected for “sticky stuff,” like a real pitcher, but was given a pass. Yet recently we read that ESPN’s owner, Disney, is in the process of eliminating jobs — 7,000 throughout the corporation.
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