![]() ![]() Picture Follows Sound, for OnceĬleary says the success of having live mics on multiple ballplayers in the outfield during preseason broadcasts suggests that baseball will sound very different this year. Moments like that and the one when Boston’s Kiké Hernandez was ruminating on two Bronx Bombers in scoring position and then bolted to catch up with a line drive, will be part of the network’s Sports Emmy Awards submission for this year. “We had Buster Posey asking Evan Longoria about dyeing his hair on live TV during a game! How much more interactive can you get?” “This is a game-changer, no pun intended,” says Kevin Cleary, remote operations specialist, ESPN. The topper, though, will be the integration of social media with the diamond dialogs, with fans and others able to pose questions to the ballplayers through ESPN’s #AskSNB Twitter channel, with the announcers serving as interlocutors. In-game interviews with headset-wearing team managers will also be a staple of the season’s sound. Now we know.”The miked outfielders will be speaking both with the booth announcers and with each other, a multipart conversation that’s more complex than last year’s one-on-one exchanges. ![]() ESPN’s Kevin Cleary: “Everyone always wondered what talk about out there during the game.
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