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January 24, 2007
Love, Baseball, and the Joy of Sox!: A new reality TV show on the way will take place at Boston's Fenway Park, and will combine elements of speed dating and baseball games. What, there wasn't enough angst happening within the confines of Fenway already?
posted by The_Black_Hand to baseball at 09:49 AM - 37 comments
Given how awesome NESN's current crop of original TV is (Be a Bruin, The Jackass Fisherman, etc.), this is sure to succeed. Vegas must be busy setting the line for on-camera date rapes. I hope they can get the people from Cheaters! to work on this show. "Ewe fahckin stahck-up bihtuch! Ewe gawna pud out!"
posted by yerfatma at 10:18 AM on January 24, 2007
I'm so glad I don't have a bad Boston accent.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:53 AM on January 24, 2007
We don't believe you.
posted by SummersEve at 11:16 AM on January 24, 2007
You know, for most people I know, they look at the accent from wherever they're from (Appalachia, Western Ontario, Ohio, Minnesota, New Zealand, wherever) as a "gutter" accent, if only because they associate it with the schmoes they knew from when they lived there, and not the genii who left that place and became internationally known. I'm from Long Island by way of Toronto, and I admit I reflexively flinch a little whenever I hear someone pontificate in a Rosie O'Donnell spitball blare or the beery Bob & Doug Mackenzie croak about anything. (Listen to yourself talk. What the hell could you possibly know aboat anything at oah-wall?) That said, the Boston accent is not exactly the jewel in the elocutional crown either. Would you take datin' advice from someone who talks like Denis Leary? Cah-mahn. Wadaya, retahded? The show itself sounds like Fever Pitch: The Movie: The Reality Series, and my only hope is that it lasts long enough to get lampooned on The Soup. One episode oughta do it.
posted by chicobangs at 11:23 AM on January 24, 2007
Especially now that "Being Bobby Brown" is off the air...Joel and the kids have more time to spare.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 12:18 PM on January 24, 2007
For instance, he suggested there could be a golden years episode with single Sox seniors dating. I thought all the senior Red Sox fans died in October 2004. Scout is still trying to work out details such as whether courtship details will be flashed up on the ballpark’s scoreboards Maybe they could just have Manny make gestures in left field that indicate the relative success of the date. I'm so glad I don't have a bad Boston accent. Well, I read all your posts in a heavy accent. So, yeah, no, we don't believe you.
posted by BullpenPro at 12:56 PM on January 24, 2007
Maybe they could just have Manny make gestures in left field that indicate the relative success of the date. Yeah like a humping motion if things are going well.
posted by jerseygirl at 01:01 PM on January 24, 2007
not like sports already has enough "bad sex publicity" on its own, some schmoe wants this...you're right, one show...pro players now have an excuse, "I'm a victim of the modern media."
posted by bavarianmotorworker at 01:45 PM on January 24, 2007
Huh?
posted by jerseygirl at 01:48 PM on January 24, 2007
Huh? Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, but it expressed a courage that is little seen in this day and age.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 02:40 PM on January 24, 2007
Bavaria must be a wonderful, confusing place.
posted by jerseygirl at 03:03 PM on January 24, 2007
Cheesy. With my luck, I'll finally cop some good tickets to a game at Fenway and I'll have this crap going on in front of me, with cameras and enough cutesy bullshit to gag a horse. Keep the hooking-up action where it belongs: In the bars.
posted by dyams at 03:11 PM on January 24, 2007
Bavaria must be a wonderful, confusing place. I can testify that Bavarian beer is both wonderful and confusing.
posted by tieguy at 03:38 PM on January 24, 2007
I'm so glad I don't have a bad Boston accent. posted by jerseygirl at 10:53 AM CST on January 24 Cave_man quiz: How about a bad Joisy accent?
posted by Cave_Man at 04:33 PM on January 24, 2007
"So how are ya enjaying tha game so fah?" "Good - betta if this fahking Schillin bum would man-up and trow a fahking cutta to a righty more." "Totally. It's a fahking embarassmant. I mean - where's his balls? Were they included in the Arroyo deal? Did I just miss that paht?" "Yeah. Well, we still gaht Manny. I sweah ta god he's jerking off out theah. Right in the behind tha scorebohd between innings. Still - best righthanded hitta of the best fahty god-daym years." "Yeah." ".... So, afta we gonna grab a Sam Adams and fahk, or what?" "Shua." "Wicked." - Now, which one's the woman?
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 04:43 PM on January 24, 2007
- Now, which one's the woman? Schilling?
posted by BullpenPro at 05:17 PM on January 24, 2007
Don't you talk about The Sock like that!
posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:37 PM on January 24, 2007
The one off getting the beers, brutha! AM I RITE?!!
posted by yerfatma at 05:37 PM on January 24, 2007
How about a bad Joisy accent? Not from New Jersey. I wish I never picked this name.
posted by jerseygirl at 05:52 PM on January 24, 2007
You need some more "fahk" in there Weedy. As Matt Damon pointed out on Inside the Actor's Studio, only in Boston can you use a curse word as a conjunction. When i really need to pull it off I think of Will Hunting. ""Totally. It's a fahhhking embarassmant. I mean - fahkinnnnnn - where's his balls? Were they fahking included in the fahking Arroyo deal? Did I just fahking miss that paht?"
posted by YukonGold at 05:53 PM on January 24, 2007
Not from New Jersey. I wish I never picked this name. Me too. C'mon gary, hit up the database and delete the "gold" portion. Also, change jg to "Banhammer"
posted by YukonGold at 05:54 PM on January 24, 2007
I thought you just liked potatoes a lot. Banhammer!
posted by jerseygirl at 07:40 PM on January 24, 2007
I always thought naming yourself after a spud was just a clever way of declaring that you were one of the chosen.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 10:46 AM on January 25, 2007
I like potatoes. Especially those Belgian style frittes. Anyone who lives in NY please bring me some.
posted by YukonGold at 02:00 PM on January 25, 2007
I've always thought it would be cool to have a logo to go with the username.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 02:12 PM on January 25, 2007
I've always thought it would be cool to have a logo to go with the username. The SpoFite formerly known as Ying Yang Mafia but currently known as 
, perhaps?
posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:29 PM on January 25, 2007
We have to call him "mouse holding up a sign that says www.funfilesandsmiles.com" ?
posted by jerseygirl at 02:57 PM on January 25, 2007
I believe this is what she was looking for: 
I too, have made the mistake of linking to images on that site.
posted by MrFrisby at 03:06 PM on January 25, 2007
I liked Mouse Holding Up a Sign That Says www.funfilesandsmiles.com better. Had a very "Dances with Wolves" vibe.
posted by jerseygirl at 03:10 PM on January 25, 2007
Wouldn't "Protests with Mice" be better then? And anyways, I'm the one named after a mouse, not YYM.
posted by MrFrisby at 03:25 PM on January 25, 2007
Hey, I see a banana. But if you see a mouse holding up a sign that says www.funfilesandsmiles.com, I respect your reality. Just don't get any on me.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 03:45 PM on January 25, 2007
Man, here I am jonesing for a good baseball discussion, and there's all these "(11 new)" being promised, maybe some good discourse on the Sox, or at least some decent banter, and I get in here and... Poop. Poop mouth. Poop mouth and mouse with sign. Poop mouth and wiggly banana. I hate you SportsFilter. I hate you. /runs ungainly from the room, crying and screaming something about 21 days and "where's the WBC when I need it"
posted by BullpenPro at 04:03 PM on January 25, 2007
Hey, Bullpenpro! A new comment! Hahahaha, made you look, made you look! p.s. Yang started it.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 05:24 PM on January 25, 2007
I like to think I bring locker room antics wherever I travel.
posted by YukonGold at 05:27 PM on January 25, 2007
Just because you see bananas, doesn't mean you aren't just that!
posted by jerseygirl at 06:02 PM on January 25, 2007
Wouldn't "Protests with Mice" be better then? And anyways, I'm the one named after a mouse, not YYM. That's what you think. The mysterious tradition of the Ying Yang Mafia runs deep. Very deep.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 08:24 AM on January 26, 2007
It's too much.