MLB Network’s Reality Show Sounds Swell
Besides the occasional Matt Vasgersian slip, MLB Network debuted at the beginning of the year to rave reviews. If you love baseball, you will love MLB Network … it’s no more complex than that. (Though, they might be wise to embrace VORP sometime this century.)
Sunday, the channel is debuting its first reality show entitled “The Pen,” which focuses on the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen. Some details:
While MLBP has had crews hang around — on the field and off — with the Philadelphia Phillies bullpen since spring training, it also has put eavesdropping microphones around bullpen phones. And it placed in the Phillies bullpen a camera that’s controlled from MLB Productions’ offices in Secaucus, N.J.
On top of that, cameras have also been present for front-office and coaches meetings. Neat. I’ve always been a sucker for these types of shows: it takes us to a place the common fan rarely sees, and it’s not just some sound bites sponsored by Taco Bell during the World Series, it’s countless hours of footage edited down to the real interesting bits.
Unless the Phillies bullpen is full of some real boring guys, I’d expect this show to be entertaining. But more entertaining than “I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!”?
I wouldn’t know because I’ve never seen that show where celebrities compete in the Costa Rican jungle for the charity of their choice, where Spencer and Heidi quit and then came back, Janice Dickinson and John Salley fought, and Lou Diamond Phillips became the first camp leader.
Seriously, I have no clue what that show is about or what’s happened on it so far.
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