The Boston Red Sox just got absolutely stomped 9-0 by the New York Yankees in their American League Wild Card Series opener, and honestly, the only thing funnier than that beatdown was the bonkers broadcast glitch that tried to make it all better. What a mess.
A Total Meltdown at Yankee Stadium
Look, it’s tough to find any kind of silver lining when your team gets hammered like that, especially against your biggest rival in a Wild Card game. The Red Sox saw their manager make some pretty questionable calls, and their starting pitcher couldn’t even get through five innings, though he did leave with the game technically still in reach. But everything went south fast. The offense? Forget about it. They managed a pathetic three hits the entire game, while the whiffs were apparently “approximately 38,000.” That’s not good, folks. They barely hit the ball out of the infield, maybe five times all night. To add insult to injury, one of their franchise players had to leave early with what looked like an injury, and the bullpen, well, they just got absolutely blasted. Zero joy in that loss.
The Elevator Music Heard ‘Round the League
But then, out of nowhere, NBC and Peacock decided to give us some unexpected comic relief. And I’m not gonna lie, it was hysterical. Right there in the top of the fifth inning, before the game truly became an unwatchable nightmare, some generic TV bed music started playing. You know, that bland, stock stuff. It started during a replay of Caleb Durbin’s double play, which was one of the few bright spots for Boston on Tuesday, but then it just kept going. And going. And going.
Fans online were losing their minds. Jackson Ogden from 96.5 The Fan summed it up perfectly, asking, “Peacock is currently playing elevator music in the middle of Yankees vs Red Sox? What the hell is going on.” Marc Luino echoed the confusion, wondering if NBC was “blasting elevator music over the announcers and game sound?” And then there was liluzivertenthusiast, who spoke for everyone with a simple, direct tweet: “@peacock turn this fuck ass music off.” Tucker from New York said he was crying because Peacock just had “royalty free intermission music playing while the f***ing game was on.” Even Darkwoke Duck had to ask, “Why was @peacock playing music over the Red Sox-Yankees broadcast? 😂 #postseason”
This wasn’t just a quick blip, either. This background music played for at least two minutes straight, cutting over the announcers, cutting over the game sounds, just letting that elevator jam ride. Two minutes might not sound like much in the grand scheme of things, but when it’s generic TV music during a tense Wild Card game, it feels like an eternity.
So yeah, the Red Sox got crushed. But at least for two minutes, we all got to wonder if we’d accidentally switched to a dentist’s waiting room channel instead of a baseball game. What a night.
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Originally reported by Over the Monster.
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