Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Broadcasters Piss Me Off - Part Whatever

Broadcasters say a lot of stupid shit, but what really irritates me is when they can't even keep track of their own stupid shit, and contradict it during the same broadcast. That makes it seem like they're just making shit up, and don't have any real insight (which may be true, but still). For example, if there is a questionable call, and you look at the replay and say you agree with the call on the field, then go to a commercial, if you come back and say that the call should be reversed, you should have to explain what changed your mind. Usually, it seems they just want you to forget they ever got it wrong in the first place. Or they've already forgotten what they said, which is even worse. Also, if you talk for the entire first half about how a team needs to pass the ball more, that they are relying too much on the run, then you shouldn't be able to say they've abandonded the run later, when they unsuccessfully try to throw the ball. Also, stop being such fucking frontrunners. Whatever team has the lead can seemingly do no wrong, while the team that is behind is clearly a bunch of inept fucks, which would be fine if that was your analysis, and was maintained throughout the game, but as soon as the lead changes hands, you can almost see the gears shifting as they try to fall all over the team that now has the lead that they couldn't stop criticizing five minutes ago. Seriously, these guys do this for a living, you would think they might have some process where they evaluate the stupid shit that they do over and over and over again and try to correct it.

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