This *was* going to be another celebratory post about how the Yankees suck, and going down 2-0 at home is the greatest thing since the waffle iron, but since the left field wall in Yankee Stadium isn’t about 3 feet higher (specifically, right to the left of the foul pole), and home plate isn’t about 85 feet closer to first base, as Jacque Jones apparently figures, I’m left to bitch about ESPN.
Technology and sports is a cool thing. ESPN gets a plus for the “over the field” camera they have during NFL games, and whoever invented the first down line kicks ass, too. But ESPN’s “K-Zone” during baseball games is just plain annoying. Even though umpires anymore are for the most part terrible, do we really need to take a second look at ball four, and because the inside edge of the ball *just* touched the strike zone, lament for a half-inning how out of control umpires are? I don’t think so. The only thing the K-Zone is good for is to throw up a finger at the screen when one of the twelve billion crowd shots of a whiny-ass Yankee fan comes on, complaining that the pitch which almost hit the dirt behind the other batters box should have been strike three. Bitches.