However, this assumes that all viewers know the inside baseball. If you don't know that, and all you see is Joe Buck mocking them for leaving early, you're thinking, "Hey! What the hell?"
What I'm saying is that if you want to go after the machine, then for heaven's sake, go after the machine. You want to mock Fox for the whole idea of flying in nine stars from Glee and New Girl, putting them in primo seats, and then showing them, that's fine (I might have done that during the fourth-inning look in). In fact, according to TMZ, he pumped them up for "staying" during the fourth. http://www.tmz.com/2011/10/24/zooey-deschanel-new-girl-world-series-joe-buck-cardinals-seats-video/ As Deschannel noted, she had a plane to catch. Does that matter to Buck? Does Buck even know why those seats were empty? Hell no! He just figures it's a chance to make fun of someone. In this case, the walkaway is that he's not going after Fox, but rather those nine. And that's where I have the issue. Yes, I'm sure Deschannel has people who can defend her just fine, and I'm sure that this thread is probably one of about eight places that this topic is still going on. But if I came into my office tomorrow morning and discovered that I was the butt of a joke from someone because I was lazy for "leaving early" when I had to (for instance) visit a friend in the hospital, you can bet I'd be at that person's desk/cube as fast as humanly possible and unlikely to use my inside voice. If Buck doesn't want to go along with farce, then stand up and refuse to read the initial promo. Stand up in a production meeting and say "what if we did something awesome like give those seats up to nine inner city baseball fans who had absolutely no chance to go to the game, but we gave them those tickets". But don't act like you're defending the little guy by taking a shot at someone else when you're really going after the machine. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:28 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can't go with you there. I like Zoey, and I don't think anyone called her a > jerk. I don't begrudge her singing the anthem (I like her voice). If she had > just sung the anthem and then left to catch her plane nobody would have > cared (or even noticed). But Fox (and other networks) regularly put stars of > their primetime shows in prize seats, then take time from covering the game > to show them, pretending somehow that it is not a commercial. I don't mind > if they show someone like Ben Affleck or George Bush in the crowd, attending > because they really are fans. But the farce of showing random semi-TV stars > at the game to pimp their schedule is annoying. I respect Buck for not just > kissing the network's ass and going along with the farce. -- 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
