Oh good: A.J. Pierzynski to be a part of Fox’s World Series coverage
Oct 3, 2011, 8:25 AM EDT
Sometimes I wonder if Fox is involved in a grand experiment to drive baseball fans into insanity. The latest reason: they’re going to announce today that A.J. Pierzynski will part of their World Series coverage, helping host the studio shows with Chris Rose and Eric Karros.
Maybe he’ll be good. I don’t know. But with Pierzynski, you’re starting with a player that fans around the game widely loathe and who was recently named other players’ least-favorite player in all of baseball. I suppose a sports broadcast could be improved with a heel, but it strikes me that people should, you know, like the people who bring the baseball into their living rooms each night.
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- drmonkeyarmy - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM
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Who in the hell watches the studio shows anyway?
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- drmonkeyarmy - Oct 3, 2011 at 10:01 AM
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So people do watch the studio show? Why do you guys watch the pregame studio show? Serious question by the way. I don’t watch it because I don’t care what guys like Chris Rose and Eric Karros have to say about what has happened and what they think might happen.
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- purnellmeagrejr - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:41 AM
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I don’t know much about this guy either but the fact that he is disliked by the other players is actually a plus – means we’ll hear less stuff like “We’ll just have to take it one game – one pitch at at time” “He’s good in the clubhouse” “A real team player” and all the other assorted bromides that pass for commentary.
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- bcopus - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:43 AM
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Maybe they’ll go old school WWF this year. Reminiscent of the Brotherly Love show.
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- kopy - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM
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I don’t know, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m not a Pierzynski fan at all, but if he’s entertaining and offers insight of a unique point of view instead of spouting cliches, it will be a refreshing change.
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- kopy - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:52 AM
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*insight and a
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- Francisco (FC) - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:55 AM
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I suppose a sports broadcast could be improved with a heel
It will make the other guys look good by comparison.
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- kander013 - Oct 3, 2011 at 8:59 AM
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Fox baseball coverage has a lot bigger problems than adding AJ-how about Chris Rose and Joe Buck?
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- Lukehart80 - Oct 3, 2011 at 9:20 AM
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“It strikes me that people should, you know, like the people who bring the baseball into their living rooms each night.”
Fox has never followed this philosophy before, why start now?
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- adenzeno - Oct 3, 2011 at 9:48 AM
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I hope he is nicer to the studion guys tahn he was to SF newspaperman(if what I read is true…)
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- adenzeno - Oct 3, 2011 at 10:38 AM
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OK -THAT was some BAD typing- My apologies
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- cur68 - Oct 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM
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People watch Howard Stern do stuff. They’ll tune in for AJ out of much the same ethos. Lowest common denominator and all that.
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- aaronmoreno - Oct 3, 2011 at 11:34 AM
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Hope they got an 8 second delay on the broadcast.
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- contraryguy - Oct 3, 2011 at 12:12 PM
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checking the byline to see whether Michael Barrett ghost-wrote this one. ‘widely loathe’, really? That’s ascribing an awful lot of presumed attention on a second-tier catcher.
