What if a baseball broadcast could look like Spielberg? What if a baseball broadcast could look like Coppola? What if a baseball broadcast could look like Spielberg?

John DeMarsico directs games for the New York Mets .

He mixes in homages to the Hollywood canon during those listless evenings battling the Phillies .

Some of his homages spread through the internet like wildfire this week .

When angled correctly, a showdown between a batter and a pitcher can look a whole lot like quickdraw duels in The Good, the Bad , and the Ugly.

SNY has included some genuine cinematic homages in the game broadcasts.

One of the shots you directed that went viral mirrored a famous scene in Apocalypse Now , where a G.I. ’s head is blended into a sunset filled with helicopters.

SNY 's Bill Webb was able to take chances and take chances without repercussions.

Baseball is cinema, and at SNY, we take that very, very seriously, he says.

I have a bigger problem with the further mechanization of baseball when it comes to robot umpires.

There’s one thing that I’ve tried to do for years and never gotten it to really work: The dolly zoom.