Gameday: One More Thing

I noticed today on mlb.com's Gameday that the center batter view is totally movable. This is really cool, but I keep messing up because the click-drag interface is a little awkward for me.

The problem (and I don't know if this is generalizable to people other than me) is that the drag is moving the camera, not the batter. I suspect that modern operating systems have conditioned me to drag the object that I click, so when I use Gameday I expect to move the batter rather than the camera -- and since these two directions are at total odds, I'm having serious trouble.

What I'm finding interesting is that when I just float the mouse (drag with no click), the camera behavior seems normal to me. This really leads me to believe that the click is setting expectations for me on how the system should work, which are then violated by the implementation model. Moving the camera is the predominant mode in 3d programming (I think), so this probably seemed completely reasonable to whoever created the application. However, most people are not 3d programmers!

Anyway, this is a kind of neat cognitive dissonance thing; even though I know what's happening I still keep messing up. I encourage you to fire up a Gameday page for yourself and see if you encounter the same issue.

[Edit: So far, 3 other people agree that it doesn't feel intuitive. Maybe I'm not crazy after all!]

[Second Edit: To get to an actual Gameday broadcast, you have to click one of the tiny baseball diamonds in the left-hand scoreboard panel on the mlb website. Sorry I didn't make that clear earlier!]