Baseball on TV

So, Jason Werth is at bat in a crucial situation.  I'm glued to my TV screen.  Next thing I know, some guy with a microphone is interviewing a woman in the grandstands about Women's Health.  And he doesn't stop.  Yadayadayada.

I have nothing against women's health.  But I'm trying to watch Jason Werth attempt to get a hit and knok in a run.  And I'm trying to concentrate on the moment in the baseball game.  Why is this jerk talking to this nice lady about women's health at this particular time?

Same thing happened the other day.  A game was being played and some guy with a microphone interviewed the son of Ralph Kiner.  I have nothing against Ralph Kiner.  I remember the battles between Ralph Kiner and Johnny Mize back in the 1940s for who would lead the National League in home runs.

But why interview Ralph Kiner's son and his daughter-in-law for ten or fifteen minutes during the progress of a baseball game?  And I'm not kidding; the interview seemed likely to never end.

I subscribe to MLB.TV.com (or whatever).. During Spring Training they showed the most annoying advertisement possible.  They showed it every half-inning of every game.  I think that comes to 17 times per game that I had to watch this thing.

I have nothing against gay guys, just like I have nothing against women's health.  But during baseball games?  The ad began: "I'd like to introduce Mister Locks...Mister Gold E. Locks."  And this obviously gay dude with a ton of blond hair waltzes onto the TV screen and the announcer says "he is just back from Basel."  Gold E. Locks then goes to a hotel where he finds a line of transgenders, or transexuals, or clowns (I'm not sure...) and I had trouble following the gist of the thing from there.

I have no idea what product the advertisement intended to endorse; but when I find out, I shall refuse to buy it.  This is Baseball fer chrissake; not "gerbil, gerbil, where did I hide my gerbil?"

I think I'll toss my TV into the trash.  I've been thinking of doing this for awhile.  And I'll discontinue my MLBTV.com or whatever it is.  Or maybe I'll just watch those programs that come on in the morning and show highlights of all the games from the previous day.  And I'll go back to reading the box scores in the newspapers.  That's how I followed baseball when I was a kid.  It probably works just as well now.