Jeanne Zelasko was the host of Fox Saturday Baseball's Game of the Week from 2001-2008. During her tenure, she shared the desk with a cavalcade of baseball personalities, including the whacky Steve Lyons, the insufferable Kevin Kennedy, and the dull and uninsightful Eric Karros. Despite the supporting cast, Zelasko seemed to be the glue that kept the broadcast going, jumping from terrible package to terrible package, updating us on trivial games around the league, and usually just trying not to rock and already sinking ship.
When Fox Sports cut ties with her in 2008 (she had been with the network for 12 years), it could hardly be considered her fault. The success of Saturday Baseball has always hinged on the play-by-play and color guy for that weeks game, which almost always was Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Nobody wants to watch a game, let alone a pregame, that features two of the worst the sport has to offer. Couple this with the combination of high production value and low quality content, and you're pretty much watching Versus.
So where is Jeanne Zelasko now? Good news! You can catch her multiple times daily on her new gig, the court reporter for the 13th season of Judge Joe Brown. You can read her bio here, which, with its laundry list of actual sports journalism pedigree, actually reads more like a post mortem. You may be a long way from your home at the forefront of low rated weekend baseball, but we'll always have the 1,500 or so times they showed Steve Lyons pulling down his pants during your broadcasts.
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