Is anybody else sick of the questions to atheletes - "How does if feel..." or "What w

frankhardy

Is anybody else sick of the questions to atheletes - "How does if feel..." or "What were you thinking...." Can't these reporters and interviewers come up with something more creative than that? Are they that lazy or dumb? Bob Costas said it well, "That is the dumbest question you can ask a ball player".

(This stems from watching the MLB Network Red Carpet Show for the A.S. Game.) Sorry, had to vent.

andycapper

I wholeheartly agree with you. These questions usually take away from the moment because they all say the same thing, and usually asked when the atheles have little or no time to let what happened sink in.

Every network wants feeling and emotion, a nice sweet answer but when they get a guy who swears or says anything negative they jump all over them.

itzagoner

me 'n' the wife were watching a Dodger game on TV recently....they were losing, so i conjured up a kind of fake interview with Mattingly and the guys from Fox for her.....

Joe Buck: Don, what do you think it's going to take to get back in the game? You're down by 5.

Mattingly: I'm guessing 5 f%#&ng runs, Joe.

McCarver: Don, what exactly do you say to the guys at a time like this?

Mattingly: Score 5 f%#&ng runs, Tim.

Joe Buck: Do the guys still seem loose and together?

Mattingly: WTF?

McCarver: What is the mood in the bullpen right now?

Mattingly: I'm sure it's pretty intense Tim. No one down there knows how to score 5 f%#&ng runs.

frankhardy

<< <i>me 'n' the wife were watching a Dodger game on TV recently....they were losing, so i conjured up a kind of fake interview with Mattingly and the guys from Fox for her.....

Joe Buck: Don, what do you think it's going to take to get back in the game? You're down by 5.

Mattingly: I'm guessing 5 f%#&ng runs, Joe.

McCarver: Don, what exactly do you say to the guys at a time like this?

Mattingly: Score 5 f%#&ng runs, Tim.

Joe Buck: Do the guys still seem loose and together?

Mattingly: WTF?

McCarver: What is the mood in the bullpen right now?

Mattingly: I'm sure it's pretty intense Tim. No one down there knows how to score 5 f%#&ng runs. >>



Priceless!

olb31

the people asking those questions are not "sports" people

byronscott4ever

I'm annoyed by the line of "questioning" where they say something like this "Michael, ."Talk about that home run you hit to win the game" which sjust seems like a way of saying "I have no question to ask, so I'll just let you run with it.

grote15

This thread just reminded me of how much I enjoyed Jim Gray interviewing Pete Rose at the AS game a few years back. No softball questions there, LOL..

digicat

How about stupid questions about other players? I heard a Giants relief pitcher get asked: "How do you think Josh Hamilton feels knowing that the fan he threw a ball too fell out of the stands and died?"

csmtampa

<< <i>me 'n' the wife were watching a Dodger game on TV recently....they were losing, so i conjured up a kind of fake interview with Mattingly and the guys from Fox for her.....

Joe Buck: Don, what do you think it's going to take to get back in the game? You're down by 5.

Mattingly: I'm guessing 5 f%#&ng runs, Joe.

McCarver: Don, what exactly do you say to the guys at a time like this?

Mattingly: Score 5 f%#&ng runs, Tim.

Joe Buck: Do the guys still seem loose and together?

Mattingly: WTF?

McCarver: What is the mood in the bullpen right now?

Mattingly: I'm sure it's pretty intense Tim. No one down there knows how to score 5 f%#&ng runs. >>





This had me rolling. Thank you sir!

KeepItWarm

Love this topic....my blood is already at a rolling boil:

I think these types of 'reporters' are total wastes of space.

I do not care how any athlete feels (in-game).
I do not care what they are thinking (in-game).

I watch sports to be entertained. The athlete needs to 'dance for me' or I'm going to turn the channel. The sport/game/match/round ITSELF is the attraction. I will admit that the right play-by-play and analyst can enhance the experience, but I don't care about more than that.

I actually feel embarrassed when I watch NHL Hockey and they send it to that dope standing between the benches. How effin stupid. And then he tries to interview the coach mid-game? WHY?

The NFL has become nothing more than an XFL wannabe sending the middle-aged camera man out on the field to run circles around Ol' Man Farve as the game starts. WHY?

Erin Andrews (ESPN) is extremely hot, but doesn't belong in the time-out huddle at College basketball games.

Now they have some plain-Jane chick on local Detroit Tigers broadcasts (obviously someones daughter trying to get in the biz). They periodically toss it to her so she can talk to some guy dressed like Elvis to find out what his wife thinks about him dressing up for "Elvis night" at the park.

THE GAME IS THE ATTRACTION. I realize they are trying to enhance the overall experience to attract every possible viewer they can, but it's gone so overboard with the stupid interview questions (like frankhardy first mentioned), hokey camera shots, forced, yet 'empty' in-game interviews, etc.

/rant