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Fox hunt
Published: 10/18/2006 1:36 PM
Last Modified: 10/18/2006 1:36 PM

If you're interested in viewing the worst sports coverage in the history of bad taste, put on the Fox baseball sideshow.

The coverage is inconsiderate, ugly, rude, disconcerting, juvenile, trashy, cheap, boring, irritating, nonsensical and pitiful.

Fox has always gone for flash over substance. Who wouldn't. Look what's on most of the time.

But the policy of showing more idiotic close-ups of fans than baseball action is the network's signature sign of gross incompetence.

This isn't Let's Make A Deal.

Get the stupid camera off people scratching their noses and licking their neighbors and yawning and put the baseball game on the screen.

The Fox hacks have turned the thoughtful game of baseball into an MTV video with its rapid-fire cuts from one insignificant crowd shot to another.

The great appeal of baseball is its subtle nature, the placement of a fielder, the location of a catcher's mitt.

You get none of this from Fox -- sometimes the airhead director cuts back from a senior citizen chewing popcorn to the mound with the pitch halfway to the plate!

Sometimes pitches are missed!

If it weren't for replays, you couldn't always tell what had just happened.

Fox covers baseball as thought the blockhead junior execs found the game to be boring.

Just put a camera behind the mound and behind home plate and go somewhere, Fox.

It takes a real bunch of clutzes to ruin a baseball game.








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