melodramatic production by Fox

A question for sports fans resident in the United States: how long has Fox been doing this stupid production thing of making a live baseball game look like it’s on 15-year-old film rather than real-time video? It seems like a phony, sentimental way to monumentalize the present– especially when accompanied by the maudlin pseudo-symphonic soundtrack they’ve chosen to accompany the player introductions. This is unbearable.

This may have been going on for years, for all I know. But it may be enough to get me to turn off my first baseball All-Star Game since the year 2000 before the first pitch is even thrown. (As a former sportswriter, I am also horrified by my now laughable unfamiliarity with most of the players anyway.)

Or do I just have a low-quality TV here? But it looks to me like a deliberate producer’s decision.

Oh God, the first round of their manipulative commercials just came on. This isn’t even Fox news, but Fox already makes me want to leave the country again.