ESPN’s 'Sunday Night Baseball' mascots face an uncertain future
Buster Olney's mascot won Sunday's Presidents' Race. By Scott Allen Scott Allen Reporter covering D.C. pro and local college sports Email Bio Follow May 23 at 11:53 AM Laura Gentile was as surprised as anyone when the new mascot designed to look like ESPN reporter Buster Olney reached the finish line first in Sunday’s special edition of the Presidents’ Race at Nationals Park.
— ESPN May 20, 2019 Gentile’s team came up with the idea to turn the “Sunday Night Baseball” crew into mascots shortly after she was promoted to her current position last September. Still, some viewers noted that the finished products bore little resemblance to Olney, Mendoza, Vasgersian and Rodriguez, and suggested that some of the images from the race were scarier than the Nationals’ bullpen’s ERA.
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