My pet peeve is something that has been happening on telecasts for ages. The batter steps in, takes a pitch. THEN the director calls for a close-up that also shows the player's name and stats - maybe this series, maybe what he has done in the game, maybe both. But it seems that lost in all the babble is that many times the announcers forget to tell us the batter's name until that close -up. With the center field camera(and we can't see the batter's name on the back of his uni), we may never know his name if the he hits the first pitch for an out. The announcers will usually just tell us the name of the fielder. And without a national MLB package, we may never have seen many (if any) games of this team before and would like to know who the f**k these guys are. Why can't they show us the graphics on the first pitch? I'll climb down off my soap box now. Later