haplesshobo
09-04-2011, 12:16 AM
I've been very bitter about Fox sports programming. (And, don't even get me started how FOX pulled the plug on Renuion like that).
When Fox bought the LA Dodgers, they ran the organization to the ground- they traded fan favorite and local son, Mike Piazza, who'll go into the Hall of Fame with the Mets on his cap, tarnished the Dodger Way to such a degree that it drove away Mike Scioscia to the Anaheim Angels, and were so desperate to sell the Dodgers to McBankrupt, an even worse owner, that Fox had to loan McBankrupt the money to buy the team.
Fox never really cared a whit about the Dodgers, but just bought the Dodgers to cockblock ESPN from forming a regional sports cable channel in LA that would have competed with Fox's sports channels. (One of the reasons Fox traded Piazza to Florida was because FOX wanted a regional sports network with the Marlins and that trade freed up Marlin's finances to allow that sports network to go through).
And, just when I thought I couldn't dislike FOX sports any more, they pull this kind of stunt:
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201109/racially-insensitive-fox-spoof-tries-ruin-college-football-everyone
It's funny when Jay Leno asks Americans from all walks of life about topics they probably should know -- like what the debt ceiling is. This isn't that. Oschack asks only Asian college students about a topic few students on campus really need to understand -- conference realignment. That's bad enough. But he didn't just interview any Asian he saw. He filmed Asians who are probably not born in this country and struggle at times with English as a second language. The intended joke is on them, and they don't even understand it.
LOL- the joke's on these Asians, mocking them for not speaking English better when its their second language and for not knowing more about SC's football team. Cause the reason these students came all the way across the Pacific was to watch a football team that's just going to win eight or nine games and not to get an education or anything like that. (Yeah, I know we're talking about USC and these students probably didn't know better if they came to USC for its academics notwithstanding last year's US News Report).
When Fox bought the LA Dodgers, they ran the organization to the ground- they traded fan favorite and local son, Mike Piazza, who'll go into the Hall of Fame with the Mets on his cap, tarnished the Dodger Way to such a degree that it drove away Mike Scioscia to the Anaheim Angels, and were so desperate to sell the Dodgers to McBankrupt, an even worse owner, that Fox had to loan McBankrupt the money to buy the team.
Fox never really cared a whit about the Dodgers, but just bought the Dodgers to cockblock ESPN from forming a regional sports cable channel in LA that would have competed with Fox's sports channels. (One of the reasons Fox traded Piazza to Florida was because FOX wanted a regional sports network with the Marlins and that trade freed up Marlin's finances to allow that sports network to go through).
And, just when I thought I couldn't dislike FOX sports any more, they pull this kind of stunt:
http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201109/racially-insensitive-fox-spoof-tries-ruin-college-football-everyone
It's funny when Jay Leno asks Americans from all walks of life about topics they probably should know -- like what the debt ceiling is. This isn't that. Oschack asks only Asian college students about a topic few students on campus really need to understand -- conference realignment. That's bad enough. But he didn't just interview any Asian he saw. He filmed Asians who are probably not born in this country and struggle at times with English as a second language. The intended joke is on them, and they don't even understand it.
LOL- the joke's on these Asians, mocking them for not speaking English better when its their second language and for not knowing more about SC's football team. Cause the reason these students came all the way across the Pacific was to watch a football team that's just going to win eight or nine games and not to get an education or anything like that. (Yeah, I know we're talking about USC and these students probably didn't know better if they came to USC for its academics notwithstanding last year's US News Report).