Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was inducted into the franchise’s Hall of Fame prior to Saturday’s game against the New York Mets. A member of the Reds for all 18 years of his baseball career, Larkin had a lot of people to thank for his success during his speech Saturday night. Too many people, if you ask Keith Hernandez.
During the broadcast, the former first baseman who works alongside Gary Cohen as the voices of Mets baseball on SportsNet New York said, “Barry Larkin said everything in his speech, except I thought he was going to extend (George) Bush’s tax cuts.” That’s the kind of line you get out of Keith when Jerry Seinfeld or Larry David isn’t writing his material.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS called Hernandez and Cohen, who joined in on the rant, “condescending and petty.”
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Posted by
Brooks on Jan. 18, 2008, 12:20pm
Ralph Vacchiano of the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS reports that upon hearing a Green Bay TV station would not show Eli Manning’s favorite show, Seinfeld, the day before the Packers host the Giants at Lambeau Field, Sony has “come to the rescue” of Manning.
The ginormous conglomo is shipping “Manning a DVD player and ‘Seinfeld: The Complete Series DVD collection’“ for his viewing pleasure while on the Wisconsin pleasure trip.
Vacchiano: “Personally, I’m always happy to see large corporations come to the aid of the underprivileged like this. It’s a truly heartwarming gesture, don’t you think?”
Now if Sony was really smart, it’d send some arm warmers instead.
Posted by
Brooks on Jan. 16, 2008, 12:56pm
WLUK-TV in Green Bay is undertaking a lame-o promotion doing its part to try to help the Packers in their Super Bowl bid against the Giants on Sunday.
WLUK GM Jay Zollar announced on-air last night that the station is pulling a “Seinfeld” episode scheduled for Saturday because the program is apparently Eli Manning’s favorite TV show. The thought being that Manning will be watching TV in his hotel room in Green Bay at that time (assuming he can get it on his rabbit eared-Hitachi at the Super 8).
Not all that funny or interesting, unless you live in the Bay. But the TV station did give us one measure of amusement in the announcement. The poll to decide which show should take the place of the Seinfeld episode has an Emmitt Smith infomercial for “The Good Feet Store” as an option.
Not surprisingly, that possibility has been blowed up by Green Bay fans.
