Television: Sox Appeal

July 31, 2007

The New England Sports Network (NESN) launches, Sox Appeal, a reality show that seeks to help baseball fans find like minded loves.
An article in the July 31 New York Times describes it as

One part “Fever Pitch,” the other part “The Bachelor,” “Sox Appeal” takes a citizen — or hero, in the show’s vernacular — of that “ultimate manic-depressive fan base,” as the NESN analyst and former star Red Sox pitcher Dennis Eckersley has put it, known as Red Sox Nation and matches him (or her; there are women heroes) with three blind dates for two innings each.At the seventh-inning stretch the hero chooses the person he would like to spend the rest of the game with and then announces his decision by holding up a sign that is broadcast on
the stadium’s giant video screen. Afterward the hero and his potential love match are shown walking into the sunset, albeit with none of the gooey follow-up common to other dating shows.

The program also features “advice” from such unlikekly sources as NESN commentators Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy to dating advice offered by players like the knuckleball pitcher Tim Wakefield.

Sox Appeal debuts August 1, after the Red Sox-Orioles game.

 

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