On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have tried for a while now to reconcile what became public five years > ago today and Ms Andrews' career after that, and I've never been > comfortable with where I end up (and I'm not sure if it's a calculation > error on my part or not). > > I rarely watch Fox Sports (because they don't carry anything I'd actually > watch), and I know she was in the dugout tonight during the Derek Jeter > Memorial Baseball Game. Has she, in any way, gotten better? > I think she is a bit better in that there is less reliance on fetching hair flips, and she seems more comfortable. In her interviews with players she seemed to know relevant facts that came up apparently spontaneously. I don't think she handled the emergency interview with Adam Wainwright very well - or maybe better, she handled it just the way Fox Sports wanted it handled. Wainwright had told reporters after leaving the game but while it was still going on that, in reference to the pitches he threw to Jeter "I was gonna give him a couple pipe shots. He deserved it" - seemingly implying that he had given Jeter easy pitches so he could get hits and look good in his last All Star game. Fox reported this, then rushed to Andrews "interviewing" him, which played more like Andrews giving him a chance to rehabilitate himself, and walk back a comment that threatened to overshadow and undermine Fox's main storyline of the broadcast. Wainright basically said he was joking, but Andrews did not press him about it at all, and instead commiserated with him about the evils of "social media" (which of course she has been a vicim of herself). It was not clear to me how credible Wainright's version was; apparently there was no video of him making the original comment to use to judge his intent there, and Andrews did not see fit to interview any of the reporters who had been there for their assessment. Wainright threw 2 pitches to Jeter, one bouncing on the plate, the other in Jeter's sweet spot. In any case, Andrews came off looking like a shill, which I guess only means that she wound up looking like just about everyone else who works for Fox Sports. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
