"Franchising: Season San Francisco Giants" kicked off Wednesday night on Showtime. There will be five hourlong episodes, so it may be, the meat and potatoes on his way.
The first payment was not deep, there were no shocks or surprises, but perhaps it will be part of the charm of the series. Each of the second series of reality show strongly tends to shock and cheap (and unrealistic) dramatic.
This is a trick for free. No Kardashians, no trumped-up plot lines, or funny judges, not potty mouth football coaches.
But for a number of promising viewers unprecedented access to the baseball team, the first installment came a little puffy.
For fans of the Giants this would be a great watch glimpses of the team you will not get anywhere else. Nice house / family shots, Matt Cain and Jeremy Affeldt. Nice Bruce Bochy glimpses of its employees.
For the rest of the world of baseball, it will be interesting to see if the series reinforces the image of the giants as amusing, unusual guys have fun playing a game, or call people in New York and Philadelphia roll their eyes and turn the channel.
There are some interesting moments. Aubrey Huff remembers Ryan Vogelsong faced years ago when he was a pirate. Huff says, as he said Vogelsong: "Wow, time really flies, does not it?" And Vogelsong said: "Maybe for you."
Star of the show? Because everything else seems like a normal and real, the guy who jumps out Brian Wilson. There's a shock. I do not know how the outside world sees Wilson, but as presented here, it would be difficult for a fan of giants, so do not hang on every stage of Wilson.
Wilson says that when he learned of the death of Osama bin Laden. He was watching TV and turned to the news because he was watching "CSI: Miami" and he knew the ending so he switched channels. No one figures out the endings to any CSI show. Perhaps Wilson is actually smarter than all of us.
You wonder if the editors and producers were ever tempted to say: "Let's just turn this into a documentary by Brian Wilson."
There was something odd. Several cuts on the meeting in a tiny staircase, Brian Sabean office (it has more overhead) to each house of the series. Bochy is, and team boss Bill Neukom and Larry Baer, and you assume you're going to get some idea of brainstorming that goes into creating giant tick, but you only get the sound and clichés. It's like listening to five random fans on the water cooler chat.
Vogelsong is a star, people are still in disbelief as his career and life suddenly turned into pure gold, after many years of struggle. He says that as a starting pitcher is 30 or so starts the season, and he will be lucky if he has the best stuff four or five of those times.
Buster Posey shows the time of emotion, when he asked if he would let one of his children have become a spectacle. "No way! No chance!"
Good work on digging up old footage Bochy as the major league scene, getting blown to play at home plate. You can see why Bochy was frank about the need to change the rules. He was there. And wow, when Bochy appeared to weigh about 140 pounds.
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