Priorities, priorities, priorities

Cross posted at my fledgling and underwhelming blog:

Rarely do I watch the local news, but when I do, I dare them to the "humor me" with something remotely interesting and not the most recent, wretched sensationalist garbage on videotape.  Sometimes I get home right before the national news (which I still watch), so I catch the last few minutes of sports on WTMJ.  Usually it's the latest update on the Packers (even in May and June), but tonight they were live at Miller Park.

Of course, everyone on the intraweb and anyone who considers themselves a baseball fan is looking toward Yovanni Gallardo's major league debut tonight.  He's only the best pitching prospect the Brewers have brought up through their minor league system since Ben Sheets, and he's only been absurdly dominating at each level the 21 year old has played at.

You would think they would give a passing mention to the young phenom of the home team since they went through all the trouble to bring a live shot from the stadium on the 5p newscast.  Nope, just another "Hey!  Barry Bonds is here!  Come out here and boo because he's evil! Eeeevilll!"

I don't know why I torture myself by watching the few minutes each week of local news that I do, but it's clear that it is no place for a real baseball fan.  I won't go into how terrible WTMJ, once the most distinguished of the local channels, has fallen into a interminable duck speak sensationalism the last year, but I wish they would at least treat their audience with one iota of intelligence.  Maybe they should start talking about players on the team in their home city than the old standby of saying who's coming to town and begging people to come out to the ballpark.

Along these lines, Gallardo did not come up as a question on today's Jeopardy, though George Orwell and Aaron Burr did.