America needs you, Al Leiter. The FOX broadcasting team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver just isn’t the same without you there.<\/p>\n
Former Cubs third basemen Mark Bellhorn and Bill Mueller are doing well for themselves.<\/p>\n
Why does FOX keep using the music from Requiem for a Dream<\/i> to promote their football, NASCAR, and baseball broadcasts? Is there some hidden meaning on the nature of addiction in the choice of music?<\/p>\n
Any respect I’ve had for Jimmy Fallon I’ve just lost. Fever Pitch<\/i>, Nick Hornby’s memoir of his love of Arsenal, is being turned into a film about the Red Sox, starring Fallon and Drew Barrymore. Well, fuck that. I wasn’t happy with the transplantation of High Fidelity<\/i> to Chicago for the John Cusack film, but at least the film kept the character of Rob pretty much the same–he owned a record store staffed by idiots. Baseball isn’t soccer. The Red Sox aren’t Arsenal. Gah.<\/p>\n
Last year FOX showed umpteen million promos for Skin<\/i>, their drama about the porn industry, and those were some of the most annoying promos I’ve ever seen. This year there haven’t been any truly annoying promos, though if I see Richard Branson one more time promoting The Rebel Billionaire<\/i> I think I might scream. The promos for House<\/i>, FOX’s new medical drama, look interesting, but I wonder why is Hugh Laurie slumming on American television?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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