Like that insecure aunt who has to speak up if it gets too quiet around the dinner table, the Red Sox had to do something today to fill the void left by the Patriots. But instead of announcing a trade, or the signing of a player, they unveiled their latest scheme to cause real fans to flee the team in horror: a Red Sox-themed reality dating show."Sox Appeal" follows a series of three, two-inning long blind dates that take place over the course of 8 televised Red Sox games. The cameras will follow one hero as they meet three romantic hopefuls (one every two innings). The hero will decide in the 7th inning who they will sit with for the end of the game.As I've noted before, the Sox seem bound and determined to turn off all of their die hard fans, replacing them instead with pink-hatted members of "Red Sox Nation." Or at least they assume that those of us who love baseball will tolerate all of this tangential garbage that they feel is necessary to keep the Nation interested.
Watching a game on NESN has been a chore for a couple of years now, with the constant drumbeat of promos for upcoming NESN shows occasionally giving way to baseball. Now we're going to be subjected to crowd shots of loving couples narrated by Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy plugging the show...I'm getting sick just thinking about it.
I'm not sure I can take it.
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