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David Freese’s awkward interview with lovestruck reporter goes viral

As a hometown World Series hero, St. Louis Cardinals third baseman David Freese has had more than a few PR opportunities. He presented a country music award with Erin Andrews, was the subject of a makeover in GQ and surprised some Cardinals fans on Ellen.

But for every great opportunity, there’s being forced to hang with Jay Leno and Justin Bieber.

Or, as we saw over the weekend, there’s also attending the reopening of the “Mr. Freeze” roller coaster at Six Flags while a local television reporter awkwardly asks if he has a girlfriend, whether he prefers blondes or brunettes and if he thinks she and her friend are pretty.

All while telling Freese she loves him, of course.

Not exactly the next Barbara Walters or Lesley Stahl.

Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) Posted: May 01, 2012 at 08:37 AM | 16 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: May 01, 2012 at 11:03 AM (#4120603)

If you like "The Office" cringe type humor, you'll love this. Truly painful. I never wish anyone to be fired but that reporter needs to find a new line of work.

2. Dangerous Dean Posted: May 01, 2012 at 11:36 AM (#4120647)

I saw this on yahoo. I get that she's a fan and has a crush. I know that this wasn't hard news. But still, what would happen if a male reporter did this to a female athelete? He'd be fired and disgraced.

3. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: May 01, 2012 at 11:41 AM (#4120654)

Yeah, even for silly news magazine journalism, this was an embarrassment.

4. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) Posted: May 01, 2012 at 11:48 AM (#4120670)

if a male reporter did this to a female athelete?

And if a male ex-athlete did this to a female reporter?

5. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: May 01, 2012 at 11:54 AM (#4120683)

Different eras of sensitivity.

And put me in the camp of "this interview was done with the blessing of whatever attention-trolling hack outlet she works for".

6. JE (Jason Epstein)

Posted: May 01, 2012 at 12:05 PM (#4120694)

Speaking of "Awkward!" the reporter really does resemble Flo from the Progressive commercials.

7. God Posted: May 01, 2012 at 12:30 PM (#4120719)

This appears to me to be an attempt at satire. She's aping the Freese-as-teen-idol phenomenon. Of course it was very poor satire, which is why so many people are apparently taking it seriously.

8. Shredder Posted: May 01, 2012 at 01:21 PM (#4120788)

After reading the headline and before reading the excerpt, I just assumed this interview was conducted by Dayn.

9. Never Give an Inge (Dave) Posted: May 01, 2012 at 02:18 PM (#4120847)

#7 - yeah, when I saw this I thought that the humor reflected more self-awareness than I was expecting to see based on the intro and comments.

Also, can people try to use italics or blockquotes when excerpting from articles in the intro? Not a big deal but it is helpful.

10. FancyPantsHandle glistening with foreign substance Posted: May 01, 2012 at 02:46 PM (#4120882)

Of course it was very poor satire, which is why so many people are apparently taking it seriously.

Doesn't that make it great satire?

11. Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) Posted: May 01, 2012 at 03:36 PM (#4120946)

Also, can people try to use italics or blockquotes when excerpting from articles in the intro? Not a big deal but it is helpful.

Yeah, I ###### that up. Should have previewed it.

12. bobm Posted: May 01, 2012 at 05:20 PM (#4121064)

[11] I don't think you can preview news submissions anymore

13. KJOK Posted: May 01, 2012 at 05:53 PM (#4121088)

This appears to me to be an attempt at satire. She's aping the Freese-as-teen-idol phenomenon.

I agree that a male reporter would never get away with doing this to a female athlete, but clearly it was supposed to be mocking all of the marriage proposals, etc. Freeze has been getting the last 6 months.

14. Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: May 01, 2012 at 06:59 PM (#4121130)

That wasn't awkward, just stupid. The girl starts things by saying they're doing a silly interview.

15. Tripon Posted: May 01, 2012 at 10:10 PM (#4121298)

Also, can people try to use italics or blockquotes when excerpting from articles in the intro? Not a big deal but it is helpful.

It would also be helpful if the site had italics or blockquotes tags when submitting news, but it hasn't since the upgrade.

16. Rickey Fredonia Fudge Duckery Precious Twiddle Posted: May 01, 2012 at 10:26 PM (#4121313)

David Freese needs to wake the hell up.

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