On Friday, it was what we might quaintly refer to as a national telecast. Or should we say a globally available stream? Whatever it is called, it was Cardinals at Mets on Apple TV+, which meant the visuals would strive to be evenhanded.
In baseball as in political coverage, bothsidesism rarely satisfies. To illustrate to the audience just tuning in before first pitch that the Mets and Cardinals have played one another before, Apple showed highlights from the 2000 NLCS...Show clips like those, and Apple can rise from my TV all night plus.
That's a connection I could have gone without seeing, but Apple wasn't interested in reaching only me and my fellow Mets fans. Cardinals fans were watching as well. To be fair, they probably enjoyed only half of the intro, too.
The nine innings that followed didn't constitute a very good game...unless you were one of those Cardinals fans, in which case I imagine it came off as a lovely way to pass a few hours, what with St. Louis plating four runs and New York just two.
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