schillingfan
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This is really wild. Coming to my hometown. I'll have to stop by and watch this all being filmed, what a scream. I wonder what legendy coaches and future hall of famers will be the judges? Randy Johnson's agents is one of the persons involved with it.
I'm not into this reality TV stuff at all, haven't watched a bit of it, but reality baseball tryouts, why not?
Anybody out there capable of this. If win a local tryout in your area and come to Lackawanna County Stadium, I'll take you for lunch.
"REALITY TV COMING TO LACKAWANNA COUNTY STADIUM
Move over Survivor and Joe Millionaire Extreme Dreams is in the way. Beginning this summer Meridian Picture will begin taping and producing segments of their reality based TV show "Extreme Dreams" which will follow 18 baseball hopefuls in
their quest for a contract with the Phillies. Taping will take place
primarily at Lackawanna County Stadium. Producers will be going to ten major cities around the country and holding open tryouts for the show. Anyone over the age of 18, who has never played, never been paid to play organized ball is eligible to participate. The open tryouts, in which players of all positions will be
selected, will be overseen by a series of three "judges" who will be a combination of legendary major league coaches and future hall of famers.
It will be their job to select twenty participants, enough to field two complete baseball teams. Those finalists will be taken back to Scranton, PA., home of the Phillies AAA team, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons Red Barons. They will
all be housed together, and over a seven week period our cameras will follow them twenty four hours a day, seven days a week as they are put through a rigorous training/competition process, all overseen by the same legends of the game who selected them in the open tryouts. In the second week of the
series the players are divided in "A" and "B" teams. Over the next three weeks the competitors will jockey to make, or stay on, the "A" team as in the fifth week the entire "B" team will be eliminated from the competition. In the sixth week, our final competition segment, the "A" team will play an exhibition game
against former major leaguers.
This game will be the final arbiter where the judges and the viewers get their chance to send one finalist, to Veterans Stadium, where prior to a Phillies home game our Extreme Dreams winner will get a private, closed, one-on-one tryout with the Phillies, in front of the team's owners, general manager, front office, coaches and scouts to see if he can make the team. The actual decision whether he makes the team, or not, will be made
with the cameras recording the whole process, immediately at the conclusion of the tryout.
The concept for the series was conceived by MMG founder Tony DeRosa-Grund, who has produced and been the executive- in-charge of production of such feature films as Universal Pictures/MGM's "Josie and the *****cats" and the ABC/WB "Sabrina the Teenage Witch". which just recently ended a seven-year run as a network prime-time series.
MMG is currently in active discussions with a number or retired coaches and players to participate as judges. Those discussions are being facilitated by both the Phillies and prominent sports management entity CSMG, which represents talent such as Randy Johnson and Donovan Mcnabb. MMG is also in "active discussion" with two broadcast networks and three major cable channels to carry the show. A decision on the broadcast partner for the show will be made within the next thirty days according to MMG.
I'm not into this reality TV stuff at all, haven't watched a bit of it, but reality baseball tryouts, why not?
Anybody out there capable of this. If win a local tryout in your area and come to Lackawanna County Stadium, I'll take you for lunch.
"REALITY TV COMING TO LACKAWANNA COUNTY STADIUM
Move over Survivor and Joe Millionaire Extreme Dreams is in the way. Beginning this summer Meridian Picture will begin taping and producing segments of their reality based TV show "Extreme Dreams" which will follow 18 baseball hopefuls in
their quest for a contract with the Phillies. Taping will take place
primarily at Lackawanna County Stadium. Producers will be going to ten major cities around the country and holding open tryouts for the show. Anyone over the age of 18, who has never played, never been paid to play organized ball is eligible to participate. The open tryouts, in which players of all positions will be
selected, will be overseen by a series of three "judges" who will be a combination of legendary major league coaches and future hall of famers.
It will be their job to select twenty participants, enough to field two complete baseball teams. Those finalists will be taken back to Scranton, PA., home of the Phillies AAA team, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons Red Barons. They will
all be housed together, and over a seven week period our cameras will follow them twenty four hours a day, seven days a week as they are put through a rigorous training/competition process, all overseen by the same legends of the game who selected them in the open tryouts. In the second week of the
series the players are divided in "A" and "B" teams. Over the next three weeks the competitors will jockey to make, or stay on, the "A" team as in the fifth week the entire "B" team will be eliminated from the competition. In the sixth week, our final competition segment, the "A" team will play an exhibition game
against former major leaguers.
This game will be the final arbiter where the judges and the viewers get their chance to send one finalist, to Veterans Stadium, where prior to a Phillies home game our Extreme Dreams winner will get a private, closed, one-on-one tryout with the Phillies, in front of the team's owners, general manager, front office, coaches and scouts to see if he can make the team. The actual decision whether he makes the team, or not, will be made
with the cameras recording the whole process, immediately at the conclusion of the tryout.
The concept for the series was conceived by MMG founder Tony DeRosa-Grund, who has produced and been the executive- in-charge of production of such feature films as Universal Pictures/MGM's "Josie and the *****cats" and the ABC/WB "Sabrina the Teenage Witch". which just recently ended a seven-year run as a network prime-time series.
MMG is currently in active discussions with a number or retired coaches and players to participate as judges. Those discussions are being facilitated by both the Phillies and prominent sports management entity CSMG, which represents talent such as Randy Johnson and Donovan Mcnabb. MMG is also in "active discussion" with two broadcast networks and three major cable channels to carry the show. A decision on the broadcast partner for the show will be made within the next thirty days according to MMG.
