I will admit it. At one point in my life, I absolutely loved watching Bar Rescue, the show where entertainment expert Jon Taffer visits failing bars and taverns and helps renovate them into successful businesses. But after Taffer made some disparaging comments about workers during the pandemic – on top of taking PPP loans – I found better things to watch on Sundays.
Thus came the news over the weekend that one of Jon Taffer’s rescues – a Nevada establishment known as the Bullpen Bar – just landed back in the news.
First, I want you to watch the show’s opening scenes. This is where we meet the bar owner and the bar’s dysfunctional staff, as well as the reasons why the bar is in trouble.
The owner is former major league pitcher Dan Serafini. Note in the clip that he borrowed money from his parents to fund the bar. This will be important later on.
Now there’s a lot of drinking at this bar – and if the drinking came from the patrons, that would be one thing. But in this clip, you can see that one of the servers has a blood alcohol content in her body that could be measured in octane.
Anyway … Jon Taffer saves the bar, renovates it, show’s over, he moves to the next bar, we’re done.
No, we’re not.
Because former major league pitcher Dan Serafini has just been arrested … for the murder of his father-in-law and the attempted murder of his mother-in-law. This is from the San Francisco Chronicle, where the story is linked.
According to the story, Serafini may have committed the murders to garner insurance money to pay off his massive financial debts from the Bullpen Bar. Yikes.
I’m just stunned. Totally stunned.
And let me say this now – as much as I hate what Jon Taffer has become (a pompous ass with a superiority complex and a two-faced treatment of his workers and staff), this isn’t his fault. All Taffer did was renovate a bar and film the owners for a reality TV show. Taffer didn’t murder those people, Dan Serafini did.
But wow … I’m watching those clips of Bar Rescue and, knowing what I know today, this is just absolutely gruesome. My sincere thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of Robert Spohr and Wendy Wood, who never deserved this.
And if there is justice in the world, Dan Serafini should be fitted for a seat in the electric chair for what he did.
Ugh. Just ugh.
Chuck The Writer 