SNY Brings In Extra Cameras To Fit Cervelli On Screen

Did you notice anything different about last night's game on SNY?  SNY hopes your answer is no.  Workers for the network spent most of Friday rigging extra cameras around Yankee Stadium so that the broadcast could go off without a hitch.  The reason for all this extra work?  Francisco Cervelli's helmet.

"Cervelli's helmet is eight times the size of a normal man's helmet.", says SNY's Chris Carlin.  "We were noticing here in the studio during the last Subway Series that he was being cropped out the screen of a lot of our viewers.  Thankfully the network is stepping in to fix it."

An SNY camera crew worker explains the process. "We use these extra cameras to create a composite image which gets reassembled in the truck and ends up looking normal on your TV at home.  It's the same technique Hollywood uses to shoot Minnie Driver."

The second game of the Subway Series gets underway at 1:05 this afternoon with Mike Pelfrey facing Phil Hughes.  Francisco Cervelli is not in the lineup.

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