Fox Sports, in general, sucks. Consider that Joe Buck is basically its #1 everything; consider Thom Brennaman has somehow become worthy of calling College Football's biggest game the past couple of years; consider that the Fox NFL Sunday, a pregame show for the country's most popular sport, is nothing more than theater for a handful of loud-mouthed jackasses who are seemingly as concerned with Jillian Reynolds and Frank Calliendo as they are with professional football ... It just sucks. And Fox Saturday Baseball does nothing to help either.
This weekend, the Great Midwest - at least my suburban KC area - was treated to a Rays-Red Sox matinee as our Saturday "regional coverage." Tell me, please, how regional is that? Sure, the AL Central rarely seems to provide the most compelling of matchups, but this assumption that everyone cares about the AL East is getting a bit out of control. I've come to terms with the fact that every Yankees-Red Sox game must be nationally televised; (I think that's been written into Major League Baseball's contract with its television partners.) but we're going a bit too far to think that any Yankees or Red Sox game should be the default game of preference under all circumstances.
Oh, there are plenty of bandwagoners around the country who love this. No doubt about it. The Yankees and Red Sox are almost certainly the two franchises in the MLB with the most national appeal, although the Cubs might fit in the pretty closely as well. But what helped created that popularity, of course, is the exposure that these two clubs have always gotten. That's what built the attraction in the first place for so many fans.
I'm sure it serves as a great reminder to Kansas City Royals' fans that, despite getting off to a first-place start this season, there's a long way to go before achieving national or perhaps even "regional" acclaim.
Fox, thanks for continuing to contribute to the problem again.
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