I think it is hilarious (and a little sad) how the sports pundits (I am particularly thinking of ESPN) will take one National Basketball Association playoff game and make sweeping judgmental statements about a team or one or more of its players simply on the basis of their performance in that one game. For example, in the Miami Heat-Indiana Pacers series currently under way, their Friday game showed the Heat with some very poor performances, especially that of one of their stars, Dwyane Wade. All that it seems the sports geniuses could then talk about was how bad Miami had become, will they trade Wade, fire their coach, and so on. So they played again today and Miami beat Indiana. So what's that supposed to mean now? That Miami is suddenly "good" again and all is forgiven?! Nobody really knows how this series will play out and who will advance to the next round. Why can't anyone ever be truthful enough to admit that they simply don't know?
Face it, sports experts: everybody has a bad day every now and then. Only with some of YOU, it's every now and always! I wonder what the point is of these people having their own shows, anyway. If you aren't interested in the sport enough to know how to follow it, you probably aren't interested either in listening to others talking about it sitting around a table. And if you ARE interested in the sport enough to be able to follow it, you also don't need these analysts: they are superfluous. I'm not saying that straight sports news is unnecessary, just the people who sit around shooting the bull (and getting paid for it).
And they are doing just that: shooting bull...
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