A Running Commentary

Sports broadcasts are doing these mid-game interviews everywhere now. Interviewing the coach, the manager, the player, the ballboy…. anyone they can get their hands on. Right in the middle of the game. Baseball is the worst because the networks make the managers strap on the awkward headset and talk to them while the game is going on! At least the NFL and NBA wait for the quarter to end. The NHL is so desperate to keep up they drag players out of the locker room and interview them right there in hallway between periods. As if the inane post-game questions sports reporters ask aren’t bad enough, now we have to hear them throughout the game:

Q – Coach, there’s a lot of excitement in the building tonight, how can your guys withstand the pressure?
A – Well Pam, we’re playing with a lot of confidence; we just need to stay focused and press forward.

Thanks guys, very enlightening. Kevin Costner had it right in Bull Durham. It’s all clichés and none of it means anything.

The only thing more intellectually insulting in sports today is having to watch a 300-lb lineman do a chicken dance in the backfield after making a routine tackle on 2nd and 7. But that’s another rant for another time.