Oh that remote control and why Tom Hart?!!

Maybe the great entertainer Sid Caesar envisioned one like ESPN announcer Tom Hart, when he denounced the use of the television remote control.

I was enjoying the powerful performances of Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” on TCM.

Next Frank Sinatra singing as part of a 1969 special.

However, the darn remote to ESPN and twice on one Texas A&M failed possession in the second quarter, Hart screamed an A&M receiver had made a reception. Then he took his time telling us what we knew, it was not a reception.

Oh that remote! Really oh that all powerful ESPN and its penchant for hiring those like Tom Hart, who simply put, has a long way to go to even resemble an announcer.

Yet those paychecks he deposits are real.

George Segal pictured above.