Closed Captioning Goes Insane During Fox NASCAR Broadcast
Reader Doug noticed last night that the closed captioning for Fox Sports 1's NASCAR broadcast "seemed to be drunk." Sure enough, midway through the second race at Daytona the captioning suddenly started spitting out repeated misspellings of various MLB stars' names. This went on for more than five minutes; we compressed it into the video you see above, or just read the raw caption transcript below. We're not sure how this happened; if you're a transcribing expert, help explain in the comments.
JOE MADDON JOE MADDON MADDON MADDON MAD DON MIKE OELT MIKE OLT O-L-T AND TOMMY LA STELLA HAYWARD HAYWARD HEY WERD HEY WARD H-E-Y-W-A-R-D JASON HAYWARD JASON HAYWARD. BRUCE BOETSCH BOCHY BOCHY CAMERON MAYBIN MAY BIN MAYBIN. VERLANDER. SANCHEZ. AN BALL SANCHEZ. ANABLE SANCHEZ ANBALL SANCHEZ. A-N-I-B-A-L PAP BONN PAPAL BONN PAPAL BOMB PAP BOMB P-A-P-E-L-B-O-N PAL BONE PAL P BONE PAPAL BONE. CLIFF LEE. COLE HAMELS. SMARDIA SMARJIA SMARDSIA IS A MARDSIA SAMARDZIJA SAMARDZIJA SMARDS JA SMARIA SAMARDZIJA FISTER DOUG FISTER. ZACK GREINKE GRENGKY GRENGKY GREINKE GRINKY GREINKE G-R-E-I-N-K-E QUIT TOE QUIT TOE CUETO KWAE TOE CUETO >> CRASHED AND QUALIFYING WITH CLINT BOYER.
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