From The Onion
Fox Cancels ALCS After Just Two Episodes
October 13, 2005 | Onion Sports
LOS ANGELES—Fox Entertainment president Peter Liguori announced Thursday that the network is pulling the plug on ALCS, the new three-hour drama/comedy about two rival clubs competing for the coveted "pennant," just two shows into its run. "This uninspired series featured a cast of uninteresting characters, a hackneyed plot, and more boring narration than actual meaningful dialogue," Liguori said. "We tried to find an audience on Tuesdays, then on Wednesdays, and we were prepared to move its time slot to Friday nights or Saturday afternoons before ultimately realizing that the series had zero potential." Television experts cited several other possible reasons for the early cancellation, such as the overly expensive sets and costumes, the show's subject matter, and the fact that the series' projected breakout character—a brash, outspoken black man named Carl Everett—tested very poorly with audiences. Fox remains optimistic about its other fledgling program, NLCS, but critics say the series has "very little chance" of making it past seven episodes.
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No one would call the Cardnals vs. Astros game boring!!! Why oh why would you pitch to the best hitter in the majors/world with the game on the line. Pujoles rules.
Mike
Baseball is so mind numbingly boring, that the only way I've watch even a single inning is if my home town team was playing in the 7th game of the World Series... and there was nothing else happening in the entire world that day.
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