The Sandblast

From The Rogue's Baseball Index

The Sandblast is a phenomenon that has emerged from The Sports Media Industrial Complex, describing the machine-gun-like rapidity with which a panel of highlights is delivered by any of the prominent sports recap shows. The Sandblast highlights are delivered so quickly, with so few pauses, that no single detail can be recalled mere seconds after the jump to 20 minutes of in-depth analysis of an NFL preseason game between the Chargers and the Dolphins. In other words, after a Sandblast, nothing sticks. The only remaining psychological remnant is the general impression that some baseball was played somewhere between several teams.

The experience can also be likened to that of watching a Bourne film wherein the impression of serious action is relayed via violent shaky camera work and superfluous, rapid-fire cuts every 3 seconds.