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Originally Posted by Straight, No Chaser
I don't know about grandstanding" today.
Last night, flipping between Joe Buck & Troy, Scott Van Pelt, and the vocabulary-challenged, hyperbolic Ryan Clark, and then over to Suzy Kolber, The Booger and some other dude, it struck me how excruciating awkward and inadequate these people are at reporting news.
They only thing they could repeat ad nauseam was "This is about Jamar"
Even after years of experience, it's like, if there's not a sporting event going on, they can't seem to know what to say?
Pathetic.
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I don't know. I think it's an incredibly difficult situation for them to be in. I'm sure they could've spent endless amounts of time discussing potential re-scheduling solutions and playoff implications, but then that would've been thought of as being in poor taste.
These aren't trained news anchors. They're people well-versed in talking about sports, and when there's a tragedy in the sport, it's a human interest story and not about the sport itself at all.
It was destined to be an awkward, unsatisfying situation if you continued to watch.