Remember this promo from Fox’s coverage of last year’s World Series?
The Astros of Sig Mejdal, the NASA scientist with degrees in mechanical and aeronautical engineering, battle the Dodgers of Farhan Zaidi, the trained brain from MIT and Berkeley, in Game 1 tonight at 8 on Fox!
Of course you don’t.
Because who would watch that?
With immense due respect to Messrs. Mejdal and Zaidi, no one in the entertainment universe tunes in to see anyone crunch the numbers, itself a contrived phrase that wildly oversells the action. In math, there is no actual crunching.