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FOX Sports covering two games in Philadelphia on same day?

KML0224

KML0224

Something I thought about today with the sports coverage on FOX in Philadelphia:

The Eagles were home at 1 pm ET against the Falcons (NFL Football).
The Phillies were home at 8 pm ET against the Giants (MLB Baseball).

Anybody who's been to South Philadelphia can tell you that Citizens Bank Park (Phillies) and Lincoln Financial Field (Eagles) aren't all that far apart from each other. Just head out from the north side of the stadium after the Eagles game and walk past two huge parking lots and cross Pattison Avenue. You would now be at the home of the Phillies.

My question is this: Could FOX use the same production truck from the Eagles NFL game for the Phillies MLB game? (Assuming it was strategically positioned between the two stadiums, parked on or near Pattison Avenue.) ???
 
They could. My guess is they probably won't since union rules would require separate crews for each game and the costs for two set-ups were in the budget long ago. On top of that, the truck would have to be set up for cameras and mics coming in from Lincoln Financial Field and then reconfigured for feeds from Citizen's Bank Park (with a tight schedule to set up and check everything).
 
Hypothetically, Eagles-Falcons could have been a national (early) game on Fox if Dallas and Minnesota weren't playing each other today. In that case, Joe Buck could have done both that game and the baseball game in primetime. Of course we wouldn't want to overwork Mr. Buck, would we? It'd probably be a little tough calling separate sports in the same day though.
 
Well they did use the directv blimp for both games. It was only in Philly to begin with because of the Phillies game, so I guess they figured why not get some aerial shots of the eagles game too.
 
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