March 12th, 2010
Every Friday, 7IS Contributor Ryan Henning will take a look at what’s happening in the life of a former, possibly forgotten player. You may not think it’s important, but it must be important to someone.

I think everyone remembers Eric Karros from his playing days at first base for the Dodgers. Either that or we remember him from being the charming sidekick for Kevin Harlan whenever Fox decided to feature a non-New York team on it’s telecast. We mostly remember that because his hair looked like a tin roof in a hurricane, trying to pull itself away from the shack it covered.
If you lived outside of Los Angeles during his career, you probably thought Karros was good, but not spectacular. Why? Because he didn’t make any all star games, which are obviously the benchmark for stardom in Major League Baseball, and why Andrew Bailey is a bigger name than Karros. He won the silver slugger once and is the LA Dodgers all time leader in home runs, despite you, Allen in Cincinnati, not thinking much of his career.
Now, Karros works for the Dodgers pregame show, which could very well last into the third inning without anyone noticing, and is host of a radio show in with Jeromy Burnitz, a person he has no logical tie to, in San Diego, a city he has no logical tie to. It’s an allegory to his hair and his head, apparently. Karros managed to graduate from UCLA with a degree in economics, proving that he is overqualified to work for Fox Sports, especially when you look at their Football analysts:

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