MLB Twitter roasts Fox’s Harry Caray hologram on Field of Dreams Game telecast: ‘Who cleared that?’
Fox tried to add an extra dose of nostalgia to its Field of Dreams Game show Thursday night by having a hologram of legendary sportscaster Harry Caray autographing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch.
Suffice it to say it wasn’t as well received as the network had hoped.
MLB fans were warned Wednesday of the possibility of a hologram of Caray, who died in 1998.
Man hears Fox is testing a revived Harry Caray in hologram form for tomorrow’s Field of Dreams game? Someone who saw the footage says it’s “unconvincing” and “possibly offensive.”
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 10, 2022
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Here’s what the minute-long song looked like on television when the Caray hologram was placed in the press box at Field of Dreams Stadium in Dyersville, Iowa.
An always “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” only possible through the magic of Field of Dreams 🙏 pic.twitter.com/IC8yHrFZQT
– FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) August 12, 2022
MLB fans seemed united in their displeasure. Reactions from MLB Twitter ranged from horrified to angry. Others joked about how poorly made it was.
Some of the most notable reactions from social media following Hologram Harry’s “appearance”:
Yo, it wasn’t the Harry Caray hologram. who deleted this #Boys #Field of Dreams
— Jarrett Payton (@paytonsun) August 12, 2022
Creepy. Please don’t hologram me when I’m dead.
— Eno Sarris (@enosarris) August 12, 2022
Asking Fox to use fake Harry Caray for Big Ten football. let him jump around Get some mileage out of it. The SEC would never. pic.twitter.com/ptQI2uYy5O
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) August 12, 2022
Oh my god, this is awful. https://t.co/f4f7cBA7uz
— C Trent Rosecrans (@ctrent) August 12, 2022
Personally, I thought Harry Caray’s hologram was pretty good pic.twitter.com/WLxyOxKTOH
— Franzke & LA (@FranzkeLA) August 12, 2022
The Harry Caray hologram, or whatever that was, will be the stuff of many, many nightmares.
— Mo Egger (@MoEgger) August 12, 2022
You could tell how confident Fox was in executing the Harry hologram by how they showed it up close for about 3 seconds and from a great distance for the other 57 seconds.
— Bleacher Nation (@BleacherNation) August 12, 2022
I don’t watch the game, so that’s all I see. That… doesn’t look like Harry Caray at all. https://t.co/cdrnR7hixS
— Jason Foster (@ByJasonFoster) August 12, 2022
YES, LET’S ASSIGN GOD WITH HOLOGRAM HARRY CARAY
— Michael Baumann (@MichaelBaumann) August 12, 2022
Who thought let’s do a hologram of the late great Harry Caray to sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame? that was strange
— Billy Heyen (@BillyHeyen) August 12, 2022
The only hologram capable Harry Caray. pic.twitter.com/YN03hduqcL
— Don Van Natta Jr (@DVNJr) August 12, 2022
FOX SHOULD BE IN JAIL TO MAKE HARRY CARAY THIS pic.twitter.com/5DfNAZ4QIY
— DOM (@DOM_Frederic) August 12, 2022
Perhaps that reaction is enough to make Fox think twice before using another hologram. At least the network won’t have to worry about creating one in 2023 — MLB won’t be returning to the Field of Dreams next season.