A brief how's-this-going-to-work thread on calling games in a pandemic...as you know, we'll be in a studio with lots of monitors. The biggest one will show us what's called a neutral or clean feed, which is what the other team's crew will produce when the Jays are the visitors.
They'll add in their graphics with their announcers for their show, we'll add in ours for our show. Each home crew has been instructed to shoot a 50/50 game, meaning show the other team's players as much as you show yours so that the visiting team's show sees its players too.
In addition to the clean feed, each visiting team will have 1 camera for its own purposes, like showing one of its own players if the other team's crew is telling a story about one of their players that is going on quite long. Our director can cut to it at any time.
We'll also have access to other cameras that we will see in smaller monitors to the side of the big one - the scoreboard in the ballpark, a wide shot of the field to see defensive alignment, bullpens, etc, all to try to give us as much info about what's going on as possible.
We did a dry run tonight. Games may not always look and feel exactly like they do during a normal season, but thanks to a ton of hard work by our crew, and collaboration between all teams' crews, it's going to be pretty close. And hey, it's baseball on TV. Just happy it's back.
