Queer Eye for the Red Sox

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:16pm

The Sox ruled. As usual.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:17pm

Ick. I hate the Red Sox.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ANGELS!

[mabel]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:18pm

I watched it too. Hilarious, as expected. It was really great of them to play that game w/ those kids too. What a fun episode!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:22pm

I loved all the reaction shots of the crowd at the exhibition game BEAMING at the Fab 5. And picking out the pink doughnuts for the gay little leaguers.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:25pm

I like white gym sox better than red.

What--? Oh, baseball.

[mabel]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:28pm

I've been waiting for this to air since I heard about it months ago! Fabulous one-liners from Carson...what did he call Tek? Quadzilla? The boys seemed to be pretty good sports, I must say. They certainly don't seem to be a lot that would be up for spa treatments and pampering. Wakefield was so funny w/ his waxing!

[Plum]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:29pm

Wakefield was so funny w/ his waxing!

*runs away screaming*

[mabel]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:31pm

*drags Plum back* Twas hilarius, I tell ya!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:33pm

I will see the Red Sox play the Cubs this weekend.

[mabel]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:35pm

Oooh, have fun! SL has been kicking our asses...royally. I wonder if we'll be out of our mini-funk by then?? I certainly hope so...at least enough to make the games interesting!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:40pm

I understand the Clement will not be pitching this weekend.

[liotte]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:43pm

NO amount of primping will ever make the Red Sox look good.

[mabel]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:44pm

Well he certainly stunk it up tonight in SL! Oh well, he's done very well otherwise, so we'll let this one slide Matty boy. I haven't really been paying attention lately...how are the Cubs doing? Weren't they on a bit of a winning tear lately?

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:45pm

They were. Lost tonight, but in great shape for having all of the stars on the DL (except the MVP Lee).

[mabel]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:45pm

Ouch, Liotte...ouch. (I know, I know..."The truth hurts.")

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 11:50pm

I haven't seen this program in a while (premise getting a bit stale, in my opinion, and the Fab 5 more underwhelming with each viewing), but I did want to see this particular episode.

I thought the good-will of funding the ball field for the Port Charlotte little league teams to be especially generous and a special treat. All the children and their families and fans appeared to be good sports and thoroughly excited. Yay!

Maybe the program does this now with everyone, I don't know, but I found it curious that with ballplayer wives were constantly on-site throughtout the spa session makeovers. Was this an example of the "well, I'll try it, but my wife has to be in the room" syndrome, and written into the production contract to protect the players' images?

[mabel]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:37am

I'm sure that was figured into it to some extent, Jose'. I must say, Johnny Damon's wife came off as a bit of a wench. Blech.

But overall, it was a really nice episode, albeit a little heavy on the mentioning of Dunkin Donuts and BJ's. I know Queer Eye does that every week w/ some company/designer, but it seemed a bit excessive (though it was very generous of them to donate all that money, so I guess all is forgiven).

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:41am

Liotte, I think Johnny looks fine
I love the Red Sox... I'm a fouth generation fan!

[mominator]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:29am

I was getting a bit miffed at all the "product placement"
I mean come on BJ's wholesale club is good but gormet?

I can't remember which one uttered the statment "Oh I love BJ's!" almost too funny.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:41am

I'm sure the wife thing was in the contract. It's pretty groundbreaking that Major League Baseball would approve the Sox being on the show at all. Not to mention they had to sign off on Carson being in the pink uniform. But MLB is fundamentally conservative. You can bet the league had stipulations about wives always being nearby. At the end of the day, when one of the Fabs said, "It's not so bad hanging out with the gays, is it?" that was a real Stonewallian moment. Because this was the world champion Boston Red Sox and they were comfortable enough to discuss the whole team washing butt cracks and faces with the same bar of soap.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:50pm

It was certainly a breakthrough--having openly gay men cavorting in a locker room of MLB (Carson using a cup as an oxygen mask) on national television.

Actually the entire show struck me as a sad commentary of the forced celebration of psuedo-celebrity that grips the States. From the little leaguers chanting "Fab 5! Fab 5! Fab 5!" to the constant product placements (as mentioned earlier), to the constant reference of the Red Sox as World Series Champions (role models of sportsman-like behavior that they are).

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:01pm

Uh. They ARE the World Champion Red Sox, so what's your point?

If being a role model means demonstrating that you are able to be friends with gay people, well, gosh, I wish there were a hell of a lot more of them.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:03pm

Once again, I hate the Sox.

GO ANGELS!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:16pm

Please note thread title, Gavrochegirl.

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[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:25pm

I just saw the last 15 minutes of a recent Queer Eye episode - is this the one where one of the guys was making dinner for his wife and making her take notes for a speech he was going to make? And he freakin' put dry spaghetti in non-boiling water and ruined it?