Remember the 2005 Jimmy Fallon/Drew Barrymore flick, ‘Fever Pitch’? Until now, I thought I was alone in loving that film.
Fever Pitch was a 2005 romantic comedy by the Farrelly brothers (There's Something About Mary). In the film, a Red Sox obsessed fan (Jimmy Fallon) falls in love with a career obsessed gal (Drew Barrymore). Their relationship blossoms during the 2004 season in which the Red Sox actually won the World Series.
As a girl growing up in the Boston area, I dreamed of such a day. Not the falling in love part, but the Red Sox winning the World Series. Now, I have the best parts of that season immortalized on DVD.
Yes, I own this film, but why am I telling all of you this?
Well, the producers of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy are developing a reality TV show that’s more than loosely based on this film. It’s called Sox Appeal. In each episode, a Red Sox fan will be paired up with a different date for two innings at a time during the first six innings at Fenway Park while the cameras are rolling.
During the seventh-inning stretch, the ‘fan’ chooses who they want to spend the rest of the game in. Then, it’s up to the other person to decide if that’s cool with them.
The web site for the series is expected to be up and running in February and casting should occur sometime in April. The series, which is set to air on the Sox-owned cable sports network, NESN in July, will have eight episodes featuring dates and two dealing with the casting process.
Oh man! I’m going to have to ask my sister to tape these for me and mail ‘em all the way to Texas. Why did I ever move away?
