http://deadspin.com/comcast-sportsnets-whi...f-the-464898838

 

I really can't believe that made it's way to television.

 

Comcast SportsNet's White Sox Intro Video Is One Of The Worst Things Ever Put On Television And Possibly Harmful To Your Health

 

Most discerning baseball fans go out of their way to avoid local broadcasts of the Chicago White Sox. After all, that's where you find Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, and to voluntarily listen to Hawk is to willingly subject yourself to the threat of severe brain damage. Seriously, you'd be better off huffing Chinese diesel taxicab fumes out of a broken compact florescent bulb.

 

If you hate your brain and want to punish it, then boy howdy do we have something up your alley. Ear masochists might find pleasure in the above, as well, which aired immediately prior to today's Royals-White Sox game from U.S. Cellular. I'm told the music is from a band called Saliva, which ought to give you fair warning that something terrible is about to happen. Saliva belongs in your mouth, not your ears!

 

Most sports network promos are 30 seconds long, perhaps 60 if it's a special occasion (i.e. Opening Day). This one's a full 2:30, and other than the seizure-inducing flash edits to obnoxious Sox fans, it consists entirely of players either lip syncing horribly to the music or standing around looking "tough." This might actually be salvageable if it had been produced by a professional outfit, but that's not the case; I think Comcast filmed the whole thing on a Fisher-Price PixelVision then handed the tape to little Jimmy Jablonski in Belmont Cragin and said, "Go for it, kiddo!"

 

Here are some things people said after the video aired. Mind you, this is only a sample of viewers; most people exposed to this video have yet to recover full cognitive ability.

Edited April 2, 201313 yr by Steve9347

It was so brutal.

 

I wonder which lucky Chicagoland 7th grader made it.

The new intro video at the park is pretty awful too. It's some incomprehensible voiceover that's impossible to understand, I hope it was just for Opening Day.

Damn that was pathetic. Who the hell got paid big bucks to make that?

And instead of playing Thunderstruck when they announced all the players, they played some whack Polka music. Not pumping anyone up.

Damn that was pathetic. Who the hell got paid big bucks to make that?

 

Fred Durst.

What if that video was made for April fools day and everyone took it seriously?

...wait, they changed the opening video at the park from that awesome one with the piratey johnny depp music?! They better not have.

As bad as the video is, I just can't stand that style of writing. Every gossip blog/deadspin article is just the same crap churned over and over. "man this is the worst thing EVER right? I'd rather pour acid down my (std joke of some kind)? blah blah"

Holy god

Haha, I like how the sync the BOOMs up with homeruns, but like a third of them are other players launching them off of our pitchers.

What if that video was made for April fools day and everyone took it seriously?

 

Edited April 2, 201313 yr by witesoxfan

 

I have no words. Please don't ever show this again

Edited April 2, 201313 yr by witesoxfan
changed for request

If the plan is to play that at every home game, numerous people should be fired. That was one of the most awkward things i've ever witnessed (watching live at OD yesterday).

Changed it for ya, although my mind was literally blown like that

Changed it for ya, although my mind was literally blown like that

Hahahaha, I meant never again show the video. I quoted the exploding head because that's how I felt as well.

 

In my 60 years of baseball I've never seen anything that bad....you gotta be bleepin me!!

Hahahaha, I meant never again show the video. I quoted the exploding head because that's how I felt as well.

 

In my 60 years of baseball I've never seen anything that bad....you gotta be bleepin me!!

 

Ha, well the Jackie Chan is a little cleaner anyways.

Please tell me they aren't gonna show that before every game.

 

 

Sure looked like they were having fun though!

What if that video was made for April fools day and everyone took it seriously?

That's an interesting point.

If it was an April fools joke, than it's genius.

 

Hell they should just come out and say it was, even if it wasn't.

If it was an April fools joke, than it's genius.

 

Hell they should just come out and say it was, even if it wasn't.

 

Right, it's the perfect damage control. I'm sure someone involved in making it has checked the interwebs to gauge a response. They could easily bury this thing as an April Fool's gag on their next telecast.

Wait

 

If the He's A Pirate intro is gone before home games for that, I'll riot

The best part was when they showed Don Cooper stepping towards the mic...hahahaha.

Edited April 2, 201313 yr by chw42

I refuse to believe that is for real. It is such poor production value, it has to be a joke