FOX Goes to Musical Bullpen for MLB Playoffs

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http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/10/26/f...mlb -playoffs/

If you were confused at the end of innings during National League Championship Series telecasts on FOX last week, thinking that you heard the network's football theme music rather than its baseball jingle, you were correct.

The network quietly swapped out its baseball theme, which includes a quick reference to its football theme, for the tune that has accompanied its NFL coverage since the sports division opened for business in 1994.

Eric Shanks, the new FOX Sports President, said during a Monday conference call, that the music the network had used for baseball postseason coverage the last 10 years had been slower, perhaps more "cathedral" and that FOX wanted to perk things up.

"When we were taking a look at recent tapes, we decided that baseball deserves a faster pace and more upbeat music," Shanks said. "There's no better music than the FOX Sports theme for the NFL."

Shanks said viewers should count on hearing what we've come to know as the FOX NFL theme across all the network's sports telecasts going forward, including NASCAR.

"It's becoming a real FOX Sports theme," Shanks said. "And it gives all of our sports sort of that marquee feel and it gives us a more upbeat way to come on the air."

I think this is an extremely stupid idea on FOX's part. They need to realize that not everything easily fits or is appropriate for said sport. For example, I wouldn't exactly be quick to use the NFL on FOX theme for something like figure skating. You're really homogenizing and watering down your sports coverage by not giving them a respective identity of their own. That's just pure laziness. And comments like "baseball deserves a faster pace/more upbeat theme tune" is just another ignorant way of saying that "I think that baseball is otherwise boring and I have ADHD!"