I have to give thanks for the heads up to the Radio Insight Twitter page.
Today during the Minnesota-St. Louis spring training contest, ESPN unveiled its new graphics package for MLB games. The graphics are the same as Monday Night Football, but as you can see below, the scorebox is now located in the lower right of the screen as opposed to a full bar on top.
Personally, I would rather have the scorebox in the upper left corner where it would not be as intrusive. I have never liked the box on the lower right or on the bottom. Radio Insight sent me a link to the picture which came from the Chris Creamer’s Sports Logos Community message board and from member “scarsofthumper“. I wanted to make sure that I give credit.
I guess you can say this was a soft launch for the new scorebox and graphics. The full launch will occur this Sunday during the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game at 8 p.m. on ESPN2.
UPDATE, 3/30/10, 9:10 p.m.: I heard from an ESPN spokesman after I asked him about the scorebox and he told me the following,”We went lower right with the idea of giving more of the screen back to the viewer. Similar to what we’ve done (with the) NFL, NBA and other sports, it’s a migration to the new cleaner look across the ESPN networks. Our studio coverage is also using it.”
Again, I prefer upper left, but we’ll see how this goes.
