Is there anything better about a local team going to the World Series than local news guys interviewing fans in a bar before and after the game? Absolutely not. Last night on Comcast SportsNet, Art Fennell had my favorite interview, first interviewing a guy about his lucky Phillies shirt (”Hey, keep wearing that shirt and your lucky hat”), following that up with a borderline-nonsensical statement (”You don’t often get an encore performance in a sports bar”) and finishing up with a weird comment about Cliff Lee (”He’s already given you blood”) that elicits the only possible response (”More blood!”). The “More blood!” guy was our expert of the night, because he knew the game would be up to Cliff Lee and Chase Utley or whatever. There was also a dude in the background twirling a rally towel and somebody chanting, “Two more wins!”

The way I see it, interviewing fans postgame is about the silliest, most pointless part of any station’s coverage, so it might as well be done as a sort of surrealist theater, where people use empty phrases to cheer on the Phillies. Good job, Comcast SportsNet and Art Fennell. You’ve elevated sports bar interviews to an art form.

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