I tried as hard as I possibly could to watch Fox Sports Ohio’s coverage of the Mets’ 8-3 win over Cincy yesterday, but ended up switching to WFAN midway through. By the 5th inning, the above advertisement had already been shown 4 times, and I think that’s more than any human being should be expected to endure.
My Reds fans friends tried to explain this to me at Saturday night’s game — I think even they were bored by the utter capitulation of the Mets batters in the second game — and actually did admirably well at conveying the most important(ly gross) parts. One thing that was not clear, and remains unclear, is what JTM is. One friend called it “a hamburger log.” I asked, do they call it that? He said, “no, it’s kind of just…it’s just JTM.” So that’s nasty, but savvy marketing by the company to hire Arroyo, thus making sure that the “meat” sandwich isn’t the least visually appealing thing in the ad.
It looks like the poor man’s version of the Chicago area’s beefy riff on the po’ boy sandwich to me. Steak on highly garlicized, buttery, french bread.
That’s not the most embarrassing musical performance by a baseball player. Back in the day, Bob Uecker had a syndicated tv show which took place inside of a bar full of drunken screaming frat idiots. They used to re-run the living hell out of those on weekend afternoons (you know, to compete with ABC’s bowling coverage) and he once had as a guest Steve Sax who ‘played’ the drums. That was some bad shit but it was better than his throws from 2nd to 1st by far.