Over the last 20-25 years, as many media conglomerates have bought-up television and cable networks that carry sportscasts, it seems like game analysts have gotten more watered-down and vanilla with their commentary.
Not that they, for the most part, can’t accurately explain the hit and run, the pick and roll or the 4-3 defense – but today’s sports analysts, as a whole, stay far away from statements that could be construed as negative or critical and spin everything into positives…really boring stuff.
Nobody turns on a game to listen to an analyst degrade or embarrass an athlete or coach, but from time [...]
