Notes from the Opponent's Broadcast

I liked the way I presented my thoughts in the notes format of my previous post and thought I would do that again.  The Pirates are exactly two thirds of the way through the season. So I decided to watch the Diamondbacks broadcast of this game, just to get a different perspective, and here's what I've noticed so far.

• They are lauding Andrew McCutcheon, deservedly so, as the National League MVP.  They loved his base running in the bottom of the 4th when he snagged both second and third base due to laziness by the Arizona fielders.
• They started calling this game Erik Bedard's finest moment of the season some time around the 5th inning.  That's also pretty accurate, at least so far.  In the sixth inning they said Bedard had "found his happy place."  Later he said, "Erik Bedard has turned into Sandy Koufax tonight." One of them gushed in the 7th, he's pitching like "he's Randy Johnson tonight."  Just as a point of comparison in terms of hyperbole, when Starling Marte gunned down Paul Goldschmidt at second base the announcer said, "I don't think I've ever seen anyone get thrown out by that much."  I guess Mark Grace is a wise ass? Later in the game, as the camera panned over the Roberto Clemente Bridge he posited, "Some thought they would lose 120 games this year."
• The announcers called the Pirates one of the 3 biggest surprises of the season.  Both of them, however, liked Oakland as a bigger surprise, and cited Washington's run atop the NL East as a more extreme surprise.  
• Once the score was 1-0 in the fifth, the announcer started pointing out that you can't fall behind by too much more -- with the way the Pirates have been pitching and playing at home.  Rod Barajas and Clint Barmes (not to be confused with the Killer B's) promptly recorded back-to-back hits to put the pressure on Wade Miley.  When Miley got out of the inning with no runs allowed, after the Pirates had runners on second and third and no outs, they predicted a possibly momentum shift.
• The trivia question was: Name the 5 Pirates who have won an MVP since 1950.  Can you name them...?
• They pointed out, during a Garret Jones at bat, that the Pirates have already slugged 15 more homeruns this year than all of last year.  
• "You can see why they're 15 games over .500 with their [fundamentals.] They're hustling, they're pitching, hitting,"  one of them quipped after Clint Barmes laid down a sac bunt. "This is a baseball town and they've finally got some good baseball to watch."
• They showed a graphic in the 8th inning highlighting the Diamondbacks worst record in the league in 1 run games and the Pirates best record in the league in 1 run games.
• At lesat twice the cameras showed Pirates players on the basepaths flashing the Z sign (McCutcheon and Travis Snider), yet the announcers failed to explain.  It's possible I missed an earlier explanation, who knows...
• "Is that the look these days, to tuck your ears in to your hat?  I missed that in my days..." Grace quipped after pointing out how well Josh Harrison had played at third base.