Newest candidate for
“Worst Thing Ever”: Fox Sports’
KidKaster
Yeah...that's right up there with the Holocaust, I'm sure.
As many of you are aware, the bane of my existence is the Children's Choir. While pretty much no Children's Choir can match This Guy when it comes to lousy singing, the regularity with which they're going to be awful is pretty alarming.
Seriously, people. DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK. Your ears will thank you, and not explode.
Where's the fun in that?
I'm a humanitarian. I can't, in good conscience, subject people to that. That guy thinks he's famous for his singing?
I guess that's beside the point. I was introduced to a new terrible thing not long ago while watching a hockey game. Fox Sports brought out a special guest commentator during the second period...a grade school kid whose name was picked out of a hat. The purpose for the kid being there was to provide one-word answers to commentator's attempts at leading questions, leaving plenty of dead air while trying to coax audio from the non-forthcoming kid. Meanwhile, there was a hockey game going on in the background which was being ignored while we learned what the kid's teacher's name was and if he liked math class.
I don't know which Fox Sports studio exec's kid wanted to be on TV, but there can be no other explanation for this sort of thing going on. The commentators are paid professionals for a reason (With the possible exception of the Bruins' and Penguin's commentators. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Jack Edwards.) They've learned how to talk about the intricacies of the game while talking about and identifying players at break-neck speed, all without any gaps or dead air, while remaining interesting. To subject these professionals to babysitting and the torture of trying to make a mush-mouthed grade school kid into good TV seems unfair to them. The result was pretty inhumane to the rest of us.
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