You never know who's going to succeed or fail on TV. Witness the long, strange trip of Alex Rodriguez to Fox Sports/FS1.
It was just a few years ago the disgraced A-Rod was one of the most reviled figures in sports.
He was a two-time admitted steroids user. His reputation for self-serving, double-talk led ESPN The Magazine to publish a 12,000 word profile of the Yankees slugger — without a single quote from Rodriguez.
The profile's author, J. R. Moehringer, explained that decision by saying A-Rod was a "proven liar."
But after A-Rod returned from MLB suspension with a bounce-back 2015 season, John Entz, Fox Sports' president of production, took the risk of hiring Rodriguez for postseason studio coverage on Fox and FS1.