TBS baseball crew re-enacts ‘Boom Goes the Dynamite’ video

Major League Baseball is often accused of being behind the times and that is really an unfair charge, considering its commissioner is only 80 years old and the sport’s marketing people do things like they did with the MLB’s latest promotional video.

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Beleaguered Ball State University newscaster Brian Collins became an Internet legend when he stumbled his way through some live sports highlights as a last-minute replacement that got completely hung out to dry by the guy running the teleprompter.

If you have been living in a secure, undisclosed location for the last decade or so, here’s the original clip for reference, the one that added the phrase “Boom goes the dynamite” to our lexicon:

The video of Collins has been viewed almost 9 million times, so it’s well-known. And those hipsters charged with putting together promotional material for MLB apparently just heard about it.

Since, you know, it’s been in circulation since the spring of 2005.

So TBS’ baseball crew did a mock version of it recently, with analysts Ron Darling, Cal Ripken, Gary Sheffield and Pedro Martinez all taking turns trying to be as bewildered as poor Brian Collins was on his fateful date with social media infamy in 2005.

In MLB’s defense, maybe it just got the tweet about the video … considering the events depicted in the video actually predate Twitter’s launch by almost a year.

MLB: Always right on top of the latest trends. Coming up in 2015, free platform shoes for the first 5,000 fans in attendance.

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TBS baseball crew re-enacts infamous ‘Boom Goes the Dynamite’ video

By Phil Watson | Sep 30, 2014

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