In real baseball too. I....hold on, I'll get back to this in a bit, in saying this stuff, my mind went to the MLB Channel and I've got something I have to get off my chest.
I've been watching the MLB Channel a lot for the last couple of weeks. I'm already sick of it.
It just shouldn't be that way!
Here I am, a devoted baseball fan, a fantasy player, a life long baseball dope and I'm sick of the channel that is baseball 24 hours a day.
I take part of the responsibility. I watch there 'live air' shows more than others.
I've had it up to here with Millar, and Reynolds, and Ripken, and Byrnes, everyone!
And I didn't know why till today. These guys are too close to the players. They cannot say a bad thing about any of these players! That's plain stupid!
What fun is that?
An error becomes 'unfortunate'.
Striking out with the bases loaded 'could happen to anybody'
A bonehead play becomes 'a lapse in judgment'
C'mon, Man!
They give every player a hall pass.
Carte Blanche.
They can do no wrong.
This network needs the rising of Howard Cosell.
For you younger folks, back in the day, sports announcers would sugar coat most athletes. They were people to be revered. If Babe Ruth went on a drinking binge or Ty Cobb beat up a black man, the papers would not scream headlines like today. In fact, they'd do their level best to hide it.
Howard Cosell burst upon the scene with his catch phrase of 'I just tell it like it is'.
Cosell was brutally honest when it came to athletes and the public warmed to it, much like Simon on American Idol a few years back.
Now, the MLB has hired players with the players code in that they do not bad mouth their brethren.
That's nice, but it sure makes for boring tv!
To a man yesterday, every employee said they were tired of talking of the Red Sox September.
Omigosh!
Fear the negative!
...And that Beckett and Lester are going to be leaders. And that Carl Crawford looks great....sheesh, we get enough of this crap from the roto news, don't we?
They don't call Zambrano volatile, they call him 'fiery'.
They don't call Hanley selfish, they call him 'slow to the challenge'
Seriously, I wanna puke!
Get somebody on MLB without the slick hair and smoothe delivery and without an attachment to every other baseball player on the planet!
I don't want to hear softball questions like what is their 'go to' song on their Ipod.
I want to hear how they're going to be a better player this year, and what was done differently to prepare, and are you working on a new pitch or swing.
But no, we know what his 'go to' song will be.
Sorry, I'll have another post with the original point of the post later.
Something that just made me snicker quietly....Shawn Childs is having a chat this Sunday night, if we had even one of the MLB folks here, maybe they could ask Shawn that burning question, the question that is first and foremost on every one of our minds....
Shawn, what is your 'go to' tune on your ipod?
