As part of its latest 30 for 30 series announced earlier today, ESPN also is going to feature 30 for 30 Shorts – a 30-part digital short film series.
ESPN posted the first video Tuesday, titled, Here Now. Here’s the link.
The short film shows Pete Rose signing autographs at his store in Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Now 71, Rose tries to put a happy face on his life. But you watch the video and then tell me whether that’s a happy man.
The film is powerful and well worth your time. Check it out.
It’s sad compared to the life he could have been living were it not for his gambling issues, however his situation is still a lot less sad than many others’. How many people will now think to stop in at Caesar’s the next time they’re in Vegas? I might.
While I will acknowledge that 30-30 does great work this presentation is one of the worst that I have ever seen. I will look past the jittery, slow and skipping video playback. But there is now way to know if the video is pre-fetching (so that you can pause and preload the video.), The blurred moving background is just distracting and the inability to make the video fullscreen for playback makes this whole experience fail. To bad ESPN can’t put the same thought into the web presentation that they put into the production values of their films.