I Want to Watch Baseball, Not a Three Hour Taco Bell Commercial

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Fanhouse: Lackey: I Want to Watch Baseball, Not a Three-Hour Taco Bell Commercial
Published 10/26/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Fanhouse: Lackey: I Want to Watch Baseball, Not a Three-Hour Taco Bell Commercial "Nearly 150 million people see a Taco Bell® commercial once a week – more than half of the U.S. population.”....So, thank you FOX! I’ve always secretly suspected that Fox has been slowly trying to destroy baseball telecasts since they took over the playoff broadcasts a few years ago. Their lead broadcast team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver is full of trite cliches and hollow statements that never offer any actual insight. Their radar gun bursts into flames. The in-game graphics beep and sing like ...

FanHouse: Fri AM 'Love and Sports in Michigan' Edition
Published 10/26/2007 by JCN at John Clifford Ness
... I Want to Watch Baseball, Not a Three-Hour Taco Bell Commercial: Their radar gun bursts into flames. The in-game graphics beep and sing like crazy for no particularly reason. Sometimes there are robots. And yet, I put up with all of it. Until now. Starting with ...

A Day Later, Pondering The Leaning Tower Of Matt Holliday
Published 10/27/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
Though Bad Altitude finds some slim consolation in “the Red Sox haven’t had to use any of their vulnerable pitchers — which is every single one of them besides Beckett, Schilling, Okajima, and Papelbon — in a close-game situation yet”, there’s also the not-so-small matter of Colorado’s likely MVP leaving taking the bat out of Todd Helton’s hands in the last of the 8th Thursday night. The Fanhouse’s Pat Lackey, unduly distracted by some marketing nonsense of some sort of another, ...