Babes In Sportsland: Casey Daigle's WAGS: Jennie Finch

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Casey Daigle's WAGS: Jennie Finch

Jennie’s claimed activity was no beneath hectic. The added ballyhoo she acquired for her comedy on the field, the added she wowed bodies with her adorableness and adroitness off it. When Jennie showed up at the 2002 ESPY Awards in a carnal atramentous dress, she admiring a countless of fresh fans. Among those was Casey Daigle, a bush bullpen for the Arizona Diamondbacks. During the spring, he had accompanied Luis Gonzalez and several added teammates on a cruise to watch Jennie pitch. For Daigle, it was adulation at aboriginal sight. He asked her out afresh and afresh until she assuredly relented. The brace became one of the sports world’s hottest items.

Jennie’s rapidly accretion accessible contour opened fresh doors for her. In October 2002, "This Anniversary in Baseball" active her as the show’s aboriginal changeable correspondent. Her segment, “Pitch, Hit, and Run with Jennie Finch,” debuted in 2003 and akin her anniversary anniversary with a above leaguer to allocution about baseball fundamentals. Some in the media criticized the move, citation Jennie’s abridgement of broadcasting experience. But as a Communications Above at Arizona, she acquainted assured in her adeptness to apprentice on the fly.

Something no one agitated to advise Jennie in any of her classes was how actuality generally takes a backseat to style. For the aboriginal time in her life, she was actuality noticed added for her looks than her softball talent. On the Arizona campus, area softball stars were celebrities, she had been The Man. Now she was The Chick. Indeed, ratings showed that a lot of macho admirers who had aforetime approach surfed during the kids articulation on TWIB were now blockage tuned, and it wasn’t because of the acumen she was imparting.

A adherent Christian, Jennie took a while to acquisition accord with this situation. But while she was afflictive with the tradeoff, she never accustomed it to impede actuality alteration to television, which was decidedly smooth. It didn’t aching that her account gig included adverse big leaguers and awkward them with her unhittable stuff. Cincinnati’s Sean Casey was the aboriginal to get a hit off Jennie, and it was a anemic single.