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What Bonehead at FOX Thought Dedicating the Entire Phillies/Mets Pregame to the Yankees/Dodgers Was a Good Idea?
By Kyle Pagan
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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.
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com