The reaction to Fox Sports’ bizarre Harry Caray hologram got the exact social media reaction you’d expect
Also in Traina Thoughts: MLB people mock MLB’s streaming deals; the truth about that wild Antonio Brown post; Bill Belichick in midseason form and more.Also in Traina Thoughts: MLB people mock MLB’s streaming deals; the truth about that wild Antonio Brown post; Bill Belichick in midseason form and more.I don’t like being cynical, but I’ve been doing this a long time and I just can’t help it.
I fully believe this was a case of what dominates the media landscape today: “Let’s do something wacky to get attention, even if it’s bad attention.” Fox easily could’ve played Caray’s classic rendition ofFox, like Aaron Rodgers with his memorable “immunized vs. vaccinated” defense, is now trying to use semantics to explain what the hell appeared on everyone’s screens during the seventh-inning stretch.
, so it warms my heart when people inside the sport also mock the fact that the sport has made it more difficult for local viewers to consume games. Let's start with Astros skipper Dusty Baker. And here is Mets radio broadcaster Howie Rose on the team’s game being an AppleTV+ exclusive Friday night.I actually reached out to a prominent play-by-play guy last night to see whether he’d record a dramatic reading of Antonio Brown’s statement that went viral Thursday for me to post in today's Traina Thoughts. He politely declined, and thank goodness he did, because it turns out Brown didn’t come up with this surreal piece of work. He merely reposted it from a satire website.
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