Last night during the MLB All-Star game player introductions on fox, the local news broke in with a weather report. Now maybe I overreacted, but I was pretty pissed off. If you live in Cincinnati, you know how crappy the Fox 10 o’clock news is and how overexcited the weather guy gets when bad weather rolls in.
Anyway, here’s my angry email I sent to the station just moments after the untimely interruption.
“You have got to be kidding me! Breaking in and interrupting the introductions during the MLB All-Star game is totally unacceptable. You know damn well there was nothing going on with the weather that was worth interrupting the game for. You only did it because you knew more people than usual would be watching Fox, so you took it upon your self to take advantage of the opportunity to force everyone to listen to your crappy weather report and feed Rich Apuzzo’s ego. Nobody gives a crap about your highly innacurate weather coverage. You people get excited when bad storms come and think it’s the end of human existence as we know it. Not only is your weather report lousy, but your entire news program is a joke. Why is the 10 o’clock news an hour long? I guess you can’t fit American Idol coverage in with just a half hour.
You should be ashamed of yourselves for the interruption of such an event as the All-Star game, because you know damn well you did it to serve your own personal agendas and to increase ratings. Whoever made that decision should be fired. I don’t care if a hurricane is coming.
Don’t interrupt any sports game!
Sincerely, Angry Ken”
I don’t care. That crap really pissed me off. What’s next, the Superbowl?
July 12th, 2006 at 7:47 am
You know that there was a tornado WARNING right? People actually saw a funnel cloud. I would hope that they would break in for that.
Besides that… WHO CARES ABOUT THE ALL STAR GAME!!! And it was the introductions to boot. You sir, are a moron.
Admit it so we can move on.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:03 am
You Kenny are a moron.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:42 am
The only funnel worth a damn is funnel cake. That stuff is delicious.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Nemesis, WHY!
You can’t even come up with original thoughts now!?!? Are you just going to copy other people’s comments now since any time you say anything that actually comes from your brain you get ridiculed?
July 12th, 2006 at 9:56 am
THAT guy is a moron.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:05 am
We already know nemesis is a village idiot.
What I want to know is why you’re so upset that they interrupted the game for a tornado warning. Some things, like a tornado posing a threat to human lives, is more important than the All-Star game. I bet the Fox news team is laughing their asses off at you. I know I am.
Since you signed it ‘Angry Ken’, I assume your agenda was to get publicity for your site.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Of course it was. And I wasn’t th eonly one that thought it was ridiculous though. They were talking about it on the sports talk radio show this morning. If you were familiar with the local fox news here, you would probably understand my anger a little more. The weather guy loves to scare the living daylights out of people over nothing. You should see it during the winter. He makes a light snowfall out to be something that can and will kill us all.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:18 am
For goodness sake Ken, it was a tornado warning. This time it did warrant interrupting the game that you yourself ridiculed a mere week ago.
Just because the jocks on sports talk radio thought it was ridiculous doesn’t mean it is. It just means they’re dumb jocks with confused priorities.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Okay. Here’s my point. The extend of which they go into the weather situation is unnecessary. They talk about all this technical garbage that makes no sense anyway. They need to just let you know quickly, what’s going on, and what to do about it. They guy sits there and plays with his little weather computer for minutes on end, spouting out nonsense about warm fronts and pressure cookers. Just tell me where the tornado is and get me back to the game.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Kind of like the extent to which you bitch about silly topics?
July 12th, 2006 at 10:41 am
EXACTLY!
July 12th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Hey Loser, I can only assume that a 1 minute weather alert upsetting you could only be matched by say the garbage being picked up 1/2 an hour late after a holiday. I also can understand your lack of concern for a possible tornado being as you were no doubt safe and sound in your Mom’s basement where you live. Try not to be an asshole all your life and maybe go outside once in a while will ya?
July 12th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I sort of agree. I understand there was a tornado. But it really got annoying with the updates every 5 minutes when I’m trying to watch the damn game! Ok, there’s a tornado. Everyone knows where it is from the report 5 minutes ago! Those people are in the basement.
July 12th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I agree with Ken. Any break in a major league game is unacceptable. I don’t care if it’s raining sulphur, let me watch my game.
July 12th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Obviously you’ve never lived in Oklahoma! That weather guy is an amatuer at interrupting programs compared to those weather guys in Oklahoma! They’d interrupt your television shows for “percipitation” in TEXAS outside the border of Oklahoma! Ridiculous!!! AND then they’d throw the entire damn state icon on the screen blocking your view for the rest of the program!
July 12th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Breaking news alert…your a fuc_ing idiot..
July 12th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
i agree with ken initially i can see breaking into a program for an initial report for 5 mins. then just put the report in the corner of the screen and return to programming. channel 12 was interrupted from 8:15 until after 10:00 in
the evening when i fell asleep i find this a bit excessive.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I wish they’d interrupted in the 9th inning with 2 outs instead. If I hadn’t seen the game from that point on I’d still be happy.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Yeah that sucked. I really thought the NL was gonna finally win one.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Looks like you have finally found a few people dumb enough to agree with you Ken. Don’t you feel special?
July 12th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Ken, you give all “Ken’s” a bad name. You should stop your ranting about every little fuc_ing thing and get on with life. Why don’t you stop sponging off your Mom and move out on your own… don’t you think it’s time to cut the apron strings and do something productive with your pathetic life? Why don’t you just delete this stupid site?
July 12th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
The tornado wasn’t even close to Cincinnati. That is what pissed me off. It was closer to Dayton than Cincinnati. It affected probably 2% of the viewing area and every freaking channael had to cover the weather from 8 until 11 at night .MORONS!!
July 12th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Hey we seen dat big funnel cloud way down here in New Orleans. Man did we get scared. We all headed to da Superdoom and waited for FEMA. Dats da program down here now. Man if you guys get hit by a big tornado dont wait on FEMA dey aint commin right away and when day do all day want to give you is free cheeze. Man my wife and kids been eating free cheeze since last year. My bowels are so tight and my wife stomach is so swoolen she look like she is 6 month pregnant. Yall take care up dare now and watch for dat bad weatha.
July 12th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Ken, I’ve never been to your site before but I’m going to visit everyday..I don’t like most people, but I like you…you don’t give a sh*t…that takes a special kind of person..
July 12th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
beep beep beep beep beep we intrupt this program to inform you of a tradgy that should happpen….a tornado has hit one of our viewrs home. said to say angry ken was killed in the accedent. this was reported by his mother. we did not inform you of this becasue some idiot asked us not to let you know when something like this is comming there way..o wait that was the idiot…
July 12th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
The announcement of my untimely demise didn’t interrupt and important baseball or football games did it?
July 12th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
football is a different thing… baseball sucks my big Dank
July 13th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Ken is right about Cincinnati Weather reports. Every single stinking time a thunderstorm passes by, they “stop the presses”, have updates every five minutes, and show you how much money they spent on Doppler 10,000,000 coverage. I think every single Radar tower ever built is in the Tri-State area.
The “funnel” cloud was “unconfirmed”. Some moron saw a tree fall and golly it must be a twister.
I am all for updates, small on the bottom of the screen. I do not need to hear the douche bag weatherman tell me the storm moved a mile since the last update 47 seconds ago.
July 13th, 2006 at 8:05 am
Naaa just the daytime soaps so it was aright..
July 13th, 2006 at 8:56 am
My problem with Fox telecasts of ball games comes from inept producers and cameramen. It wasn’t quite as bad for the All Star game, but when they televise the local games, they miss important plays altogether.
Oh, and their egotistical announcers, who are talking about thir lives (like we care) act like it’s too much trouble to actually call the game.
I agree with running weather reports across the bottom of the screen, it’s what they do here (Chicago) and is much better than the interruptions.
And to Sgt Poon: some of us DO care about the all star game, and calling someone a moron is in itself moronic. Let’s play nice, shall we?
July 31st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
ok hows this putting a cam on a person freeking out over the death of her mom. or a child how did it feel to have that man with a gun … wish that would happen to mackys darlin .saw her at hospital.wanted to say something then but didnt.cant stand any of them
August 6th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I just wanted to let everyone know that Rich Apuzzo’s house is for sale as a short sale… That should put a smile on Angry Ken’s face