The dramatic outdoor drone shots gave the broadcast a fresh different look. Excellent camerawork, commentary and coverage IMO.  

Everytime the announcera say there’s a sellout I look at those empty “action seats” behind home plate.  This evening there are several empty seats.  I cant believe that these seats were sold, and people are “no shows”.  I suspect the seats behind home plate are too expensive.

Remember this is Toronto.  Those seats are all or mostly corporate.  You can tell because you see a lot of people on their phones and have no idea if Mickey Mantle or Mickey Mouse is playing.  I would LOVE to sit in those seats.

mace wrote:

The "Official" seating capacity of the Rogers Centre is 39,150. However, the announced attendance for the three Giant and first two Yankee games were in the 41,000-42,000 range. How can this be? Standing room is considered part of paid attendance. The Cubs, Red Sox and Phillies also have plenty of space for standing room fans. MLB team owners only care about how many tickets are sold not how many bums are in the seats. These are the attendance figures reported in the newspaper box scores. The Chicago White Sox, who have been dreadful for several years, may have an announced crowd of 9,000, which is pitiful, but the actual crowd would be hard pressed to reach 3000. Like all other professional sports leagues, the only thing that matters to MLB team owners is the bottom line.

Last night on the broadcast they said  paid attendance was a bit over 42,000 (can't remember the exact number).  Probably means that seating capacity and paid attendance are two different things.  The various new bars do have some seating but a lot of standing room so you can move about to mingle and schmooze.  These new sites at the Rogers Centre could easily hold another 2500-3000 fans, mostly standing or walk up bar.  

Besides the Yankee's starter, Schittler, the Jays' starter was Scherzer. Dan Shulman had a bit of hesitation in pronouncing those names in a live promo the game before.

newsguy1 wrote:

If you think Cam Schlittler's name is a nightmare for sports broadcasters think of what his school days were like for him.
Hey, come over here ya little schlittler!
I don't give a schlittler what you think!
Or even, Heil Schlittler!

 

There's a player with the name Aaron Bummer with the Atlanta Braves. Imagine going through life with that name?