SNY's creative Mets broadcasts, led by director JohnDeMarsico, match the excellent vibes of the team itself. joedelessio reports
Scenes from SNY’s Mets broadcasts. Photo: Screenshots via SNY In the seventh inning of the Mets’ August 9 game against the Reds, Cincinnati pitcher Joel Kuhnel drilled outfielder Mark Canha with a 95-mile-an-hour sinker. The Mets have been beaned more times than any team in baseball this season, and their manager, Buck Showalter, was understandably peeved. As Canha took his base, the cameras of SNY, the Mets’ cable network, focused in on Showalter.
DeMarsico, who started working at SNY right out of college, learned under the station’s legendary baseball director Bill Webb, who also directed 17 World Series for Fox before his death in 2017. This year marks DeMarsico’s third in the director’s chair, but he says it’s really the first in which he’s had the chance to get truly artistic.
“What I saw taking place as deGrom was about to take the field felt special,” DeMarsico says. “There was a buzz in that ballpark and every single fan in that building was on their feet. And I kind of went with my gut.” DeMarsico said that thanks to a short rain delay before the first pitch, he had some leeway to adjust the broadcast to include deGrom’s warm-up throws. But later in the game, he opted to skip a commercial break entirely to show the ninth-inning entrance of closer Edwin Diaz, who boasts incredible numbers and an incredible entrance song. Behold, “Narco”:
The approach has already inspired copycats: When Apple TV+ aired last Friday night’s Mets-Phillies game, it also had a camera operator run in with Diaz in from the bullpen.
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