L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.

Byline: -- Tony Jackson

So I'm browsing the DirecTV grid Saturday morning looking for something to watch, and I noticed that "This Week in Baseball" was coming on ... some of my fondest childhood and teenage memories are of summer Saturdays watching this show, listening to Mel Allen spend a half-hour narrating highlights of what had taken place around the game that week. So I check it out, and it was truly, truly awful. For starters, there wasn't one thing relating to what happened this week in baseball. NOT ONE THING. It was like a big infomercial for all of their sponsors. They did have this long Jackie Robinson feature at the beginning, but it was too fast and hard to follow. ...

I ended up watching the whole show because I kept thinking there would be something relevant, but there never was. On the list of bad TV, this show gives "Laguna Beach" a run for its money.