Fox Sports Net And Fellatio

The A's have been in Anaheim for the last 2 nights, so we have been watching the games on FSN because it's a lot cooler than watching on Gamecast.

I just want to make it clear before I go any further that I love the Simpsons and I am as excited as the rest of the general population that the movie is coming out this weekend.

But Jesus Christ...where does it end???

I know that the "F" in "FSN" stands for Fox. I know that Fox is releasing the Simpsons Movie. I expected the 50 commercials for it between innings. I would have been fine with it if it stopped there.

But it didn't. It seemed like every 3 seconds during the game, there was some kind of Simpsons reference or advertisement. Whenever there was a break between batters, the 2 Angels announcers (whoa re AWFUL, but that's an entirely separate post) had to remind us to watch the post-game show where the two of them were going to get "Simpson-ized". Between pitches and coming back from commercial breaks, a little animated Homer ran across the screen and dumped cartoon yellow paint on everything. Hell, Fox put 2 people dressed as Homer and Marge AT THE ANGELS GAME yesterday!

I was planning on making this just a very short, very vulgar post, but since most of you (I assume) don't like to wake up and see nasty language on your screen first thing in the morning, I've decided to clean up my next statement a bit.

Watching the game last night, I was truly astounded at how hard Fox could perform fellatio on itself. It was difficult to comprehend. I couldn't tell where the mouth stopped and the...fellated organ started.



I'm sorry if that was still a little much for anyone, but I couldn't get across how I felt any other way. I'd say "Screw FSN" but I think that's already been taken care of.


Now I know what you may be thinking: "But Rich, don't you take part in the same gross cross-promotion when you try to get more traffic to your site by advertising it on your livejournal and MySpace accounts?" Now it may seem like I'm the pot calling the kettle black on this one. I have been known to cross-promote my posts here and at Thunder Matt's Saloon (See? I just did it again!) like a quasi-Ryan Seacrest. But the fact is, I was trying to watch a baseball game when all these Simpsons things were forced onto me. Now if you were reading something on ESPN.com or trying to find some good hardcore pornography and ads for my blog started popping up, then it would be the same thing. But since that doesn't happen, I think I can convince myself that I'm not being a total hypocrite for one more day.