It was a match made it TV heaven. Take one franchise desperate to improve their public image. Add one struggling network eager to improve its meager ratings. The result? NBC and the Mets today were happy to announced their newest fall show:
The Mets Apprentice: Search For A Competent GM.
The show, the latest extension of the Apprentice brand which already includes The Celebrity Apprentice and The Apprentice: SVU, will air on NBC and SNY over the next six weeks.
Each week the candidates will try to complete a task that "The Donald" assigns them. One week has all of the candidates spending the week under one roof living together and talking baseball non-stop. Whoever gets the others so worn down that they'd trade their own mothers just to escape the guy wins the week.
In another episode the GM's will be given unreliable roadmaps and uncharged GPS devices. Their task will be to find their way to a particular sandlot to scout out a hot prospect and then sign him.
The show will continue in this manner until all but one of the candidates is shown the door by Donald Trump or whichever of his relatives is undeservedly running the show that week.
Executive producer Mark Burnett weighed in on the partnership at a press event on Monday. "For a team that has had four years of "Hard Knocks" it is not surprising that they have decided to throw open the interview process to reality TV.", said Burnett. "I think the end product will be something both the Mets and NBC can be proud of."
Catch the first episode of The Mets Apprentice airs tonight at 10PM EST following an all new episode of The Event.
All articles featured on The Apple are fictitious. No Mets were harmed in the writing of this story. Today's story by Randy Medina & Larry Smith. You can follow Larry Smith on twitter @dr4sight
