Behind the game casts

The Tribune’s Eric Gwinn had a nice story in Tuesday’s paper about the different game-casting sites and how they’re put together.

I guess I hadn’t thought much about it, but each game is scored by a human being who works for MLB.com or ESPN or whomever. And they track the game pitch-by-pitch, which is actually more intensive than you might think.

The one thing I wonder is why you can’t just listen to the game on the radio? I guess some workplaces are not too tolerant of that. It doesn’t seem to be a problem at my workplace. Heh, heh.