What Bonehead at FOX Thought Dedicating the Entire Phillies/Mets Pregame to the Yankees/Dodgers Was a Good Idea?
20 minutes until the Phillies take on the Mets in London! Lets check-in on the pregame coverage!
The crew takes a stroll through Monument Park at Yankee Stadium 🫡👏
📺: Dodgers vs Yankees, TONIGHT at 7p ET on FOX pic.twitter.com/Vesr3bH7LV
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) June 8, 2024
Perfect time for a walk through Monument Park in the Bronx.
Rob Manfred talks about how important the London Series is to MLB’s growth and they send their B announce team out to the game and have their TV partners talking more about a game that is 6.5 hours away. I understand the Dodgers and Yankees put asses in seats, but it’s not like it’s Royals vs. Guardians out in London. We’re talking about two top-5 media markets. Major stars on both sides. The best team in baseball! The best pitcher in baseball on the bump! It’s anti-Philadelphian discrimination! We’ve got an entire horse race to get through before that game and the fellas are breaking down Ohtani’s numbers.
People are not happy. It feels like a YES Network rain delay package:
20 minutes until Mets/Phillies on FOX. Great time for a tour through Monument Park! pic.twitter.com/RTuJ3MRvLA
— Kyle Pagan (@CBKylePagan) June 8, 2024
MLB Fox pregame for Phillies Mets has exclusively consisted of glazing the Yankees who play in seven hours
— Philly Sports Sufferer (@mccrystal_alex) June 8, 2024
With all due respect to FOX – because I do enjoy their MLB studio crew – I don’t know whose idea it was to devote this much coverage to Yankees/Dodgers, which is still 6.5 hours away.
Show me London. Show me the inner workings of how this event happens. Show me Mets/Phillies.
— Nick Karski (@Nick_Karski) June 8, 2024
What genius decided that MLB Game Day on Fox should broadcast from Yankees Stadium ahead of a Mets vs. Phillies game??
So effing stupid.
— cind (@dudzmc) June 8, 2024
Is this the Mets/Phillies London Series pregame show on FOX or is it a new episode of Yankeeography?
— John Flanigan (@JohnFlanigan_) June 8, 2024
My wife, the Phillies fan on the Fox pregame show: pic.twitter.com/THljR4EnF4
— Josh Kail (@THATJoshKail) June 8, 2024
We’re 15 minutes until game time and it’s the first time FOX has actually talked about the Phillies and Mets game. What’d they do? A pre-game interview package between Francisco Lindor and A-Rod. A Met? The team you’d barely know was there with how bad their marketing has been around the London Series? This is ridiculous. Who signed off on this? I need these idiots heads to roll. MLB Network has already interviewed Aaron Nola, Zack Wheeler, Jimmy Rollins, and Shane Victorino while FOX is fellating a bunch of dead guys in centerfield.
They threw it over to AJ Pierzynski’s during the pregame intro and his mic immediately didn’t work. Fire FOX into the sun.