It just got me thinking as I was driving home and turned on KNBR (the Bay Area sports radio station) that as I expected to hear the Giants' spring training game, I instead got the Golden State Warriors. Completely understandable, especially considering that it was a regular season game.
But what I also noticed was that, well, I can't really listen to basketball on the radio. It's tough to imagine and keep up with every bit of action on the court, except for maybe the baskets in which case I still can't exactly visualize what happens, I can merely just update myself with the score, which is also a problem because you'll have to refresh your mind every bucket to keep up with the score.
Thinking more about it, baseball is really the only sport that I can tolerate on radio. Football would probably be the next closest, but again the thing I love about football is the visuals alongside it. I prefer it on TV over live already, and that's because of all the cutaways and replays that they include, talking about the last play in a very "visual" way that can't be replicated over radio. I haven't tried hockey, but I feel like that's also much more of a visual feast too.
When listening to baseball however, I feel like I'm primarily getting the whole experience. I know my Giants by stance and what they would do in a situation, how a pitcher's slider looks, how far off the plate a ball is thrown by how Jon Miller tells it, etc. There's enough downtime to keep up, and there are enough limited placements for the ball and the fielders to go within their vicinity to visualize what just happened. Plus it's just very refreshing.
So what about you guys? I'm assuming there are a lot of people here who listen to football on the radio, but when you watch the highlights after is it like watching a movie adaptation to a book after you read it, that nothing really was as it sounded on radio aside from the end result? I don't know, I just can't see myself being engaged or true to reenacting what happens in any other sport on radio than baseball.
But what I also noticed was that, well, I can't really listen to basketball on the radio. It's tough to imagine and keep up with every bit of action on the court, except for maybe the baskets in which case I still can't exactly visualize what happens, I can merely just update myself with the score, which is also a problem because you'll have to refresh your mind every bucket to keep up with the score.
Thinking more about it, baseball is really the only sport that I can tolerate on radio. Football would probably be the next closest, but again the thing I love about football is the visuals alongside it. I prefer it on TV over live already, and that's because of all the cutaways and replays that they include, talking about the last play in a very "visual" way that can't be replicated over radio. I haven't tried hockey, but I feel like that's also much more of a visual feast too.
When listening to baseball however, I feel like I'm primarily getting the whole experience. I know my Giants by stance and what they would do in a situation, how a pitcher's slider looks, how far off the plate a ball is thrown by how Jon Miller tells it, etc. There's enough downtime to keep up, and there are enough limited placements for the ball and the fielders to go within their vicinity to visualize what just happened. Plus it's just very refreshing.
So what about you guys? I'm assuming there are a lot of people here who listen to football on the radio, but when you watch the highlights after is it like watching a movie adaptation to a book after you read it, that nothing really was as it sounded on radio aside from the end result? I don't know, I just can't see myself being engaged or true to reenacting what happens in any other sport on radio than baseball.
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