I defended Fox a few minutes ago and I stand by the defense. TV is harder than you think and while an AWFUL lot of the stuff that surrounds the game is fluff at best, annoying and assaulting at worst, no one ever died because of poor sports programming decisions.
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But it is fun to point and laugh sometimes. Like at this bit before the game last night when Joe Buck sauntered into the American League Clubhouse and acted like he owned the place. Watch as Miguel Cabrera, Mike Trout and Derek Jeter look at him with “really, dude?” expressions. Then watch as Jeter tells him to get the heck out of there, they have a game to play:
Fox has baseball rights for years and years so it’s not likely to change. But if someone ever wanted to turn baseball broadcasts into stripped-down affairs that focused on, you know, the baseball game and focused less on “covering the living hell out of this thing in an effort to both justify and glorify our access,” that’d be swell.
(thanks to Anthony for the link)
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