There’s some discussion today over Justin Timberlake’s cringe-worthy All-Star Game interview with Mark Grace. The word is uncomfortable.
Bloggers this morning are making much over Timberlake’s excessive compliments to Joe Buck’s being a classy announcer while Buck has been suffering “some sort of vocal malady,” as an SBNation blogger puts it.
Then he extols the ubiquitous virtues of beer, his favorite ballpark “food” with Grace, who had been arrested for DUI within the month. Timberlake opines on beer: “It goes with the hot dog, it goes with nachos, it goes with peanuts. Beer’s perfect. Beer never got mad at me because I didn’t call beer back.”
Plus, says, Craig Calcaterra on HardBallTalk at NBC Sports:
And on a broadcast which, about ten minutes before, had recounted the untimely death of Nick Adenhart at the hands of a drunk driver. Of course, given that the very first pitch of the game was sponsored by Budweiser, I guess mixed-messages involved with the relationship between alcohol and baseball are something with which Fox and MLB aren’t too uncomfortable.
Some think Timberlake was a little buzzed and was trying to be funny, a combination that can lead to uncomfortable situations. Nothing more, nothing less.
What do you think?
