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8/6/08 Brewers (Suppan) at Reds (Bailey): 11:35 AM CDT

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tristarscoop

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Well I officially hate you a ton jflick - I couldn't believe I got so far in the process - they said a couple of hundred people applied and they even talked about having 3 of us do it, instead of just 2 of you. I literally just missed out. Very cool for you, though.
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It's strange today watching the Red's Broadcast...they're doing some promotion with no commercials. No real reason for this post, just thought it was interesting.

ugh, I am annoyed by this. They aren't showing any game shots between pitches. Still, seems like a really good cause so I shouldn't complain too much I suppose.

 

 

That part is strange I agree. But I can't complain getting all the games out here.
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Toby, I do the Gameday stuff for 1/2 of the Brewers games, which means my mistakes have some of you swearing at home during the game http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif. Anyway, the reason that you see it's so inconsistent is that it's up to the person doing the game to determine it, by simply putting a + sign after the code (ie 43/G+). Some guys see a rocket shot, and just forget, some will probably not do it as much as others, etc.

Wait a second. How did you get this job? Sounds pretty interesting. Care to elaborate on the whole process a little more?

You apply through MLB.com and go through an interview process and take a very in-depth test on how to score a game and then interview some more. There is a manual full of codes that you use to score each pitch and play. You train for awhile on taped games and you need to learn a lot of the coding so that you can score the game as quick as possible. When you're watching gameday and there's a pause, it's because whoever is scoring doesnt know how to score it - either it's a weird play, or a complicated code or the official scorer hasn't made a decision - the program won't advance until you enter a code - so you can't go on until you're scored the play before.

 

I am assuming you have to be at the ballpark in order to do this, correct? Sounds like an awesome job. Props to all those who have it.

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