This man has something to say about Finding Bigfoot.
The Boston Red Sox’s 2nd baseman Dustin Pedroia is a hard-working, dirt dog Major League Baseball player. He feels that the folks over at Finding Bigfoot need to put in a little more effort.
Maine’s own Tom Caron interviews Dustin Pedroia during NESN’s extremely popular baggo challenge during this spring training’s Red Sox Live From Fort Myers.
On Wednesday night, February 20th, Pedoria tweeted the following message:
Getting frustrated with finding bigfoot show. Mix in some evidence please. Uncle on town hall meetings and squatchy areas.
Pedoria appears to be a sincere Sasquatch fan, and he is getting a little frustrated with Finding Bigfoot.
That’s reasonable and understandable. Good feedback.
But on the flipside, the Animal Planet series is really an entertainment program, basically, and is producing a whole new generation of kids intrigued by Sasquatch and cryptozoology, who go on to study science, biology, zoology, anthropology, folklore, and other studies. All because they watched Finding Bigfoot.
Nevertheless, Finding Bigfoot is becoming slavishly formulaic, and maybe it is time to change a few things up to keep the show interesting.
I have a novel idea for the Finding Bigfoot producers: During the off-season, invite Dustin Pedroia on one of your future search and investigative parties.
(H/T to #6 for newstip.)
He could just bench-jockey the whole team all night with big league patter.
Wow, when a guy who is paid extremely well to play a kid’s game calls you out and is “frustrated” by your lack of evidence, you know you’ve got to up your game – and here I thought it was just us regular folks who felt that way.
Maybe, now that they’ve heard from both ends of the spectrum, the producers of Finding Bigfoot will shake things up a bit? Nah, they won’t tinker with success; expect more of the same ’til ratings nosedive.
Have they tried leaving a Guest Book in the forest, for Bigfoot to sign, yet? No? Well, maybe next season…
Most guys like this get asked opinions on stuff they know nothing about because, well, they get paid oodles for playing a kid’s game.
And here, one of them actually says something.
The evidence gets short shrift on this show. Town meetings and “squatches do this”? Well, what evidence do we have that “squatches do this”? That might give the town meetings – which otherwise I have no doubt are people sincerely relaying experiences, until evidence shows otherwise – some added oomph.
Were I Dustin, I’d be ticked too. He’s entertainment as well. But he puts up numbers.
They should get Mike Timlin to get out there. He’s tanned and rested. He’s also as big as Bobo, better spoken, and a hunter.
I am a fan of the Finding Bigfoot show. I enjoy the scenery of the locations visited, and mysteries are fun to explore even with a measure of fantasy to it. However, I do agree Animal Planet & the cast need to improve the format and depth. They really need to weed out, as best they can, hoaxes and misidentifications beforehand at town hall meetings; and some of their visits to certain locales are based on flimsy and blurry photos offering little beyond deception. Perhaps have more interviews with seasoned trackers, wild-life personnel, rangers, etc. that have something to contribute. These exhibitionist night stints are too amaterish and look quite silly at times. I realize it is entertainment that includes youthful audiences, but find deeper substance if possible.