What Is Going On With Pete Rose In This Fox Sports 1 Video?
BOSTON (CBS) -- Red Sox fans are quite familiar with laughing fits that happen during live broadcasts. Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy would go on goofy tangents that had nothing to do with baseball during many Red Sox games on NESN, usually in blowouts or meaningless games, and Don would spend an entire inning cracking up at utter nonsense.
It's not often you see anchors in a studio break into uncontrollable laughing fits, and sometimes that's because they are pre-recorded. Apparently Fox Sports 1 has to pre-record everything with new baseball analyst Pete Rose, whose bizarre behavior leaves everyone crying of laughter in the above video.
You heard the sound on Toucher & Rich...but incredibly, the video provides little context to Rose's antics. Rich put together a ridiculous Rose-ified version of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame", though.
The segment begins as the host poses a question for the panel, when for some reason Rose starts nudging a stack of papers over to fellow analyst Raul Ibañez, who loses it before he even gets a chance to speak. Frank Thomas is also on the panel and also can't help himself but laugh.
Rose speaks complete gibberish as he and everyone else giggle uncontrollably, and they try the segment two more times with the same result. As Fred Toucher pointed out, Rose is acting like he sucked a tank full of nitrous oxide. I say psychedelics.
Rose's performance on FS1 has apparently become widely hated by fellow analysts, writers and pundits, for his lack of insight and strange arguments, including one that basically said players should never take themselves out of games with injuries.
Rose may suck as an analyst, but if Petey Pageviews keeps delivering surreal moments like this for Youtube and social media I imagine FS1 will not be letting him go.
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