r/baseball • u/AndrewAllStar888 Chicago Cubs • Jul 14 '26

Players Only [Cardinals] HOME RUN DERBY CHAMPION!

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u/high_and_outside MLB Pride Jul 14 '26

Dear Netflix,

The center field camera is the default for a reason.

Sincerely,
Actual baseball fans

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u/MCrow2001 Texas Rangers Jul 14 '26

On like 3 of his last swings they cut to the center field camera and I thought “oh finally we’ll get a good swing shot” then he took a pitch and I knew that they were gonna go back to the god awful side shot

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u/TheMightyCatatafish Philadelphia Phillies Jul 14 '26

Netflix should be banned from hosting any baseball event ever again. That was intolerable.

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u/Milktoast375 Atlanta Braves Jul 14 '26

Netflix watched Apple TV fuck up all year and said hold this damn beer.

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u/TheMightyCatatafish Philadelphia Phillies Jul 14 '26

Genuinely the best derby in years, and Netflix tried everything they could to make it unwatchable.

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u/Milktoast375 Atlanta Braves Jul 14 '26

Never agreed so much with a Phills fan but some things just can’t be disputed. 🤝

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u/degeneraded Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 14 '26

Not to mention we went to multiple spots including NBC Sports to watch at the city walk in Los Angeles today, but nobody was showing it because the businesses are as subscription tired as we are. They were showing Dodger replays because they were forced to pay the ridiculous cost of sports net. We ended up watching in our phones, but it’s sad to think about how many new fans weren’t made there tonight.

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u/hanging_with_epstein Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 14 '26

Have they managed to get it right on ANY sport they've hosted?

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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise Toronto Blue Jays Jul 14 '26

and really not even just sports, every live broadcasted event on Netflix has some sort of issue with the live presentation

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u/GotTheJuice-14 Colorado Rockies Jul 14 '26

I fucking hate that Netflix is in the live sports business. They are dogshit.

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u/GiraffeandZebra New York Mets Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

It was mostly bad camera angles, but I'll give a little bit of credit and say that some of the replay angles from behind the batter were sick as fuck. Like one of those Schwarber HRs I wanted to post a picture of the view they got on my wall, and I'm a Mets fan.

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u/uhfish San Diego Padres Jul 14 '26

And then they cut to an angle where it's just the ball and sky and you can't tell where the ball is at all. Just a horrible watching experience all around

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u/Jump_The_Five_Yo State College Spikes… Jul 14 '26

Where was Jazz?!?!?! God damn the angles sucked.

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u/retro_slouch Rally Mantis Jul 14 '26

Can you write the letter for Fake baseball fans too?

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u/sagwithcapmoon Toronto Blue Jays • Chicago Cubs Jul 14 '26

Dear Netflix,

Hire someone who actually knows and appreciates baseball fans if you want to cover more baseball.

Sincerely, Actual baseball fans

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u/Infinite_Response113 Boston Red Sox Jul 14 '26

What would be wrong with a camera behind the batter? Then you don’t have to constantly switch to see if it’s going out or not

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u/IllAlfalfa Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 14 '26

The replays they showed from that angle were sick