I am trying to think of something in the history of sports broadcasting on television more lame than what Fox has been trying to manufacture with what they call "The Wash".
I suspect that the rest of the nation was not quite as enthralled with the cute in-story of the Giants season last year, and the endless recounting of the "torture" of it all. I still have nightmares about those stupid monkey and inflatable noise sticks the Angels used when they beat the Giants in 2002. Probably most years the networks try to find some angle on the WS that they over hype ad nasueum. But in most of those cases there is something real underneath it, even if it gets blown up and exaggerated and then exploited and ruined by the money machine. I can accept all of that. But in this case, Fox has, as far as I can tell, completely invented a faux phenomenon, and then gone out of its way to pimp it. It is not just annoying, it is embarrassing. I guess network announcers did the marcarena at some WS in the 1990s, but this would be as if the network made up the macarena specifically to hype their coverage, and then tried to get as many people as possible to start doing it, and pretend it was a pre-existing national craze. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
