From the ‘It happened last week and nobody cares anymore but I’ve been on vacation and wasn’t near a computer and I just gotta complain’ Dept.
Fuck NBC!!!
I hope they never broadcast another All-Star game. Christ, what are these people thinking about!!!
O.K…deep breaths…It still makes me mad…
What I hate about NBC’s coverage is their baffleing habit of interveiwing people in the dugout WHILE THE GAME IS GOING ON!!! Jim Grey(schmuck) is in the dugout asking inane questions while action is going on on the field. At least 2 at bats were missed entirely because of it! He actually asked ‘What was going through your mind when you hit that ball?’ Asshole!
Attn NBC: The game matters. What individual players think about their participation in the game does not matter.
Why do they interview ballpayers anyway? Remember that scene in ‘Bull Durham’ when Costner taught Robbins about stupid baseball cliches? His cliches were brilliant compared to what ballplayers always say in interviews.
“It’s just an honor to be hear with all these great players.” “This guys such a great competitor.” " I was just looking for a pitch I could drive". “We’ve got a great bunch of guys who go out there and play hard every day.”
I love baseball and watch it whenever I can. It infuriates me when NBC pulls this shit. If they do it during their post-season coverage I’m going to have an anurism!!!
Just be thankful they’re not trying to pull the same bullshit CBS did when they got the NCAA basketball tourney. Remember the split screen fiasco? Six games on the same screen at once. Each score was in a 10 pt font.
Every time network TV gets a sporting event (other than football) they fuck it up. Hockey on ABC, the Olympics and the All Star game on NBC, the glowing puck on FOX, ad infinitum. They ought to leave it to the sports channels, at least they know how to do the coverage.
The networks should just go off and felch a dead bloated water buffalo that was previously felched by a syphillic hippo.
I started watching the game, cause I was so pleased that my boy Jeff Kent was rightfully voted onto the starting lineup, but gave up after a couple innings. The All-Star game is not only unimportant, but boring as hell. The only interesting part is the voting.
EXACTLY!! Wonderful post, Spooje. Those damn interviews drove me CRAZY. Thanks to one of those STUPID interviews, I missed my FAVOURITE PLAYER’s ONE All-Star at bat! Sure, he flied out, but I WANTED TO SEE HIM BAT! I did NOT want to see the idiot NATIONAL LEAGUE’s UGLY PITCHER’s FACE, or listen to HOW HE FELT ABOUT COMING TO THE GAME!
Damn you NBC! May all your executives and announcers die of squicking complications!
And hey, Joe Morgan! The American League team is NOT CALLED “The Yankees.” Believe it or not, the AL is not synonymous with The Yankees. Even though it seems like 75% of the players ARE Yankees, we do not call the American League team “The Yankees.” Even though you and Costas’ pathetic little lives revolve around the Yankees, some of us believe that there is more to baseball than ONE scandalously rich team from New York.
NBC wrongly assumed the viewers tuned in to see something other than baseball. Jim Grey (hemarrhoid in front of the polariod) assumed we wanted to listen to his inane chatter. Jim Grey apparently doesn’t have a clue and will aimlessly wander about asking ludicrous questions.
Bring on ol’ Pete Rose, no lubrication, Jim has gotta take this reaming dry!!!
All that and you didn’t bother to mention what a pickled piece of shit Joe Morgan is. Good player, the worlds worst broadcaster. He comes across like a mentally challenged 12 year old.
The truly unfortunate part is that Costas is a part of this. He’s one of TVs best talents, and should be remembered as a legend one day. The fact he’s working for NBC is a shame, doing Basketball in these weak days of the sport, covering a bunch of spoiled unlikable talents. And NBC’s baseball coverage is terrible because of the inept and ignornant people he has to work with. TV sports needs to move away from putting so many ex-players and coaches in the booths, broadcasters like Costas who actually enjoy the sport are vital. In contrast assholes like Jim Grey who seem to not understand and genuinely hate the sport and athletes need to be shot.
The sad thing is that Baseball is in such great shape these days and most of the star players seem to be genuine and are all very likable. Let NBC get their self-important hands on it and I’m sure they’ll fuck it up.
I agree with you. I’m always shouting at my TV screen ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP JOE!!!’, because he’s always talking out of his ass. But it pains me to speak ill of a member of the Big Red Machine to this day, even he has ripped our hero Pete Rose. My cross to bear.
I have to be honest here- I didn’t watch much of the All-Star game. I saw Chipper Jones (YAY!) hit his homer, and then I caught Gray’s face and decided I could live without both him and the broadcast. Joe Morgan was there? On NBC? Doesn’t he work for ESPN–>ABC network–>the competition?!
I guess these guys will work for whoever pays them. I’ve seen Morgan, Jon Miller, Bob Brenly, Ray Knight(schmuck), Chris Berman and even the great Vin Scully on doing games or analysis for several different networks.
Can’t agree that Bob Costas is any talent any more. he is so wrapped up in himself that he needs to be reminded that he is not a scholar, intellect, historian, nor poet.
10 years from now he’ll be doing commericals similar to the following:
(Drmatic and somewhat sentimental music plays, sounding a bit like a Copeland rip-off while a ontage of bathrooms and outhouses is shown.)
COSTAS VO: It is a tradition in America that was literally brought over on the Mayflower, passed down from father to son and even daughter. It is woven into our national fabric, a part of who we are.
It, of course, is painful rectal itch. Whitman didn’t write about it, but if he had, I’m sure it would have been evocative of the scratchiness and burning associated with painful rectal itch. Did it stem from early use of Sears catalogs for personal hygiene, or is it a product of our over-hyped media age? Perhaps not even Michael Jordan knows for sure.
Yet this much IS known. Preparation H, as American as the great game and painful rectal itch themselves, can provide relief; the kind of relief that is like nothing so much as a cool glass of lemonade on a hot summer day.
Be a part of the tradition, a tradition that goes back to a Babe Ruth, a Tyrus Raymond Cobb, a Honus Wagner, and before. Buy Preparation H, and make painful rectal itch nothing more than a treasured memory of our nation’s heritage.
Thanks, Bucky! My keyboard is now covered with Diet Dr Pepper spewage. Damn, that stuff burns when it comes out of your nose!
I agree - Costas sucks. I hate to watch any NBC baseball broadcast, because I know it means listening to Costas yammer on about the Wankees, er Yankees. And if he isn’t doing that, then he’s babbling out some of his patented self-important pseudo-intellectual crap. Just shut the hell up and show me the game!