ESPN is trying to recreate the Manning-Cast with A-rod and Michael Kay. Wow, what a terrible idea. I have watched about 45 minutes of it off and on, and here is what I have observed.
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Kay and Rodriguez have no chemistry
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A-rod is painfully quiet for stretches at a time. I can tell that Kay is thinking “what the fuck, am I talking to myself?”
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The only time it kind of works is when they are interviewing people.
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The really doesn’t work for baseball. In football, any dead time is filled with game action. In baseball, too much set-up means that there are times that they are just sitting there, staring at the pitcher getting ready to make a pitch.
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Then of course, picked Yankees/Red Sox, which are notoriously long games. They are two hours in, and are only in the 5th inning. They planning on filling up probably 4 hours with this? Yikes.
I see this dying a quick death.