B.A.T.S. |
Friday, May 5, 2000 - (05-05-00) |
B.A.T.S.
CRACK! It's B.A.T.S.! They're "Big",
they're "American", and the only
way they know to play baseball is "Texan
Style"! CRACK! It's B.A.T.S.,
Chook Industries's soon to be syndicated sitcom.
"The problem with the rest of the world is that they don't play our
sports. Give me another Miller Lite," keenly observes
Crazy Horse Tomahawk, Chook Industries's on location
reporter, and he's right on the
money. Things are about to change because American Baseball just went
abroad. CRACK! It's B.A.T.S.!
Where is American Baseball headed anyway? Well here's a
hint: one might say, "CRACK! It's B.A.T.S., and cracking good fun too!"
That's right, American Baseball just became the Queen of England's
favorite sport of foul-mouthed tobacco spitting players and billions of
bloated fans storming the U.K. for hotdogs and 9 innings of grand-slam
glory! B.A.T.S is the story of an auxiliary American Baseball team
stationed in Great Britain, their rise to fame and eventual downward
spiral into lifestyles of degradation, drugs, alcohol and failure. The
best thing about B.A.T.S. is that it will set new precedent for sitcoms
both continentally and internationally by breaking old molds. Not only
is it hoped that B.A.T.S. will air in the USA and UK simultaneously, but
the series goes against the grain of all prior television shows. "Did
you ever notice that many television sitcoms use the same scenarios over
and over?" boldly announces the Sitcom Scenario Surf
web site. Bjorn
Carlson, head writer of the Chook Industries writers' guild, gets in
Sitcom Scenario's
face with a haughty "No". What exactly does Bjorn
mean by his "No" though? Does he mean, "Hey you fucks at
Sitcom
Scenario, suck on an egg and rotate it" or does he mean, "No, that isn't
milk on the dog's lip." The answer lies in Bjorn's motion of reaching
into the inner sanctums of his black trench coat and rocketing a stack
of papers, which lands perfectly squared, on the desk before us. "I
should have played the silly Vampire fellow in Blade
rather than that Stephen Dorff
asshole" says Bjorn as he stomps out of the room. Deep
down we know he is right, because the stack of papers he spun through
the air like a Swedish winnowing machine is the script for the pilot
episode of B.A.T.S. And is it ever good! But you're gonna' have to
wait until the bidding wars are over for B.A.T.S. to see the two hour
pilot, seven minutes of dialogue and one-hundred and thirteen minutes of
fist pounding action! CRACK! It's B.A.T.S!
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