OT: Can Baseball Players Like The Office??

by royalsreview on Jan 18, 2007 10:43 PM EST Comment 10 comments

Fellow Missourians,

I brought this up over at Royals Review and felt like I might find some sympathetic minds over here... I promise not to mention Don D...

Here's the gist of it:

1. According to the Royals fake "blog" some random players and FO types (including Frank White) watched "several" episodes of "The Office".

I find this bizarre because:
At the heart of "The Office" lies a kind of despair that most jocks seemingly never experience: unrequited love, a horrible job, being lonely. Put it this way, they don't even have an office.

Anyway, here's the original post, which fleshes this out in moderately larger detail:

http://www.royalsreview.com/story/2007/1/18/121942/700

Maybe if pro-baseball players can find "The Office" funny its a sure sign that the show is getting too zany and sitcomy. Or maybe I'm just selling them short.

Or maybe its their way of assimilating with our world... Or maybe its good pillow talk fodder with the groupies in Milwaukee... I don't know.

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But baseball players don't think

about their jobs the way we think about them. When I talk to my buddy who plays, he'll say he's "on his way to work" when driving to the ballpark. It actually drives me insane when he says this.

While I'll agree that the mega-superstars definitly live in a differenet world then ours, a ton of the guys are just normal dudes who happen to play baseball for a living. It's a job, like any other. And I'm sure, in some small way, they are able to relate to characters on "The Office," ie. the nerdy manager, the divorced guy, the super psycho guy, the temp. Plus the show is really freaking funny.

Also, I think Braden Looper is Dwight and J-Rod is Andy. Scott Rolen is Jim.

Cheers

by Alxfritz on Jan 19, 2007 2:10 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Everyone can

and indeed should--like the Office. They might not laugh at the same parts, but it's got a pretty wide range of humor covered.

Plus last night's episode was epic.

by DanUpBaby on Jan 19, 2007 3:12 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

That...

was an over-reaction.

Cheers

by Alxfritz on Jan 19, 2007 3:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

I don't work in an office but I love the show. I think it's a show for anybody. I also love 24, and I'm not a counter-terrorism agent.

On with the youth movement!

by aet15 on Jan 19, 2007 3:19 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Maybe

They watch it and laugh at "those normal people" and their silly problems. How ridiculous is it to them that people actually work in cubicles with modular, not fully high walls and have to do paperwork and nobody cheers when they do something great.

How about handin' me another helpin' of those mashed taters...thank you very much!

by Elvis on Jan 19, 2007 9:54 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

i think

most guys are classy enough to not do that, and to realize that they are the lucky few who get to put on a big league uni.

by Baseball addict on Jan 19, 2007 6:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Rolen is a little too uptight

to be Jim... I'd say he's more like Stanley. Okay, maybe that's too harsh...

The Cardinal Curmudgeon

by lawman3842 on Jan 19, 2007 3:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

izzy

reminds me of todd packer.

Especially because a lot of people on here have two thumbs and hate jason isringhausen.

by DanUpBaby on Jan 20, 2007 4:55 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Points that they can relate on...

First, aet's commment made me spit tea on my brand new lap top. WELL PLAYED SIR! Second, before they were major leaguers, they all had regular jobs be it working at the local grocery store or mowing lawns or whatever. They weren't always fabulous wealthy and famous.

Everybody can relate to the following:

Michael Scott: Most people know the guy who trys way to hard and is absolutely clueless. The Christmas party episode was amazing. Its easy to laugh at Michael, but the same time cringe, and feel bad for him. Its a well developed and executed character.
Pam vs. Karen: You might not have had an ongong unrequited love of three years or had to break a girls heart because you still loved the one that got away, but I think most people who have a soul can figure out how that feels. The beauty of how the office has done it is that Karen is likeable, she's not the evil woman stealing Jim away from Pam. You actually felt for her in Thursday night's episode.
Dwight K. Schrute. Intensity bordering on insanity. It doesn't have to be work, it can be any hobby. I'm sure one of the guys in the lockerroom is the Dwight K. Schrute of the locker room. Maybe its an infatuation with guns, or politics, or abstract art. (Side note: I just got thinking about Curt Schilling and the idiotic things he says, HE IS THE RED SOX DWIGHT!)
Kelly: You know that girl and then you know your buddy who was trapped by her or let himself be around her and you're like, dude what the heck man?

I could go on and on, but the point is exactly what aet said above, comedy is comedy and the back drop is just a device to set up 95% of the jokes. Scrubs isn't about a hospital, its about people that work in a hospital and I don't need to know how to produce a tv show to laugh at 30 Rock. (I just picked the other shows on that night on NBC.)

Oh and Alec Baldwin is a comedic genius.

by Brock20 on Jan 20, 2007 9:25 AM EST reply actions 0 recs