I feel the title speaks for itself.
This the day after Greg Zaun became the baseball expert of all time and absolutely thrashed the blue jays organization. Which leads me to think, if you were a a sub par player who either made it or didn't what gives you the right to bash a whole organization. When did you become so knowledgeable about everything. Was it when you were getting slightly obese sitting on the bench mr zaun. Or was it all the time you spent thinking about those 3 pitch strikeouts. At what point in your career did you say to yourself "damn i am awful, but i literally know everything about baseball and how to run a team, so TV here i come."
Sorry to break it to ya big fellas but you were a shitty player and your a worse analyst. Guys like Greg Zaun, and Tim Hasselbeck who had garbage careers so they feel the need to go on TV criticize guys with more talent in there foot that they have in general. This irritates me, guys like Troy Aikman should be on TV, Steve Young, Deion Sanders all these guys are on TV and they shit on guys because they were better than them. But to see Greg Zaun rip on guys makes me sick. I guarantee that when Greg Zaun chirps a guy for not hitting a curve ball we should show all the curve balls he has struck out on, but we don't have enough time for that life story.
You know who i love seeing on TV are guys like Rich Eisen, Adam Schefter, Joe Buck, guys who never had high profile careers, but they don't bring what careers they had into any part of the discussion unless they are making fun of it. I love that/respect that, these are guys who have done the research, put in the hours in school to really know what they are doing and have educated valid opinions. Honestly it doesn't matter if you played the sport or not. A players perspective and a good analyst perspective should be very different. Players are so biased and feel we should see everything through the players eyes. NOPE that's not how it works bud sorry we see things through a consumers eyes which means if we aren't happy we are critical, we feel the need to dissect certain plays/players/games. Analysts look at the number, look at production, look at how a team is being run, look at how successful teams are run. Then they take all that info, form an educated opinion and share it. Instead of hearing "well back when i was on the bench picking my nose this guy used to do this." We as consumers get to see facts to go along with arguments. We get to hear someone speak who has not been smacked in the head with a clipboard so much he slurs.
This all being said players do have a valuable perspective of professional sports no doubt. All I'm saying is i don't want to hear "back when i played", or "this is how we did it", because the game (whichever sport it is) has evolved and we do things better and more efficient than you did sorry to have to tell you that. Which is why i love guys like Troy Aikman because they give up to date info. If you listen to Troy Aikman telecast he always says "Nowadays" he knows its changed and that everything he did in his hall of fame career doesn't need to be exactly replicated to succeed.
So NBC, CBS, CBC, TSN, SN, anyone who broadcasts professional sports really. Can we please can some real analysts, and if were getting ex players don't get 3rd string guys who thought they were really good when they really sucked. I don't want to hear about how they did things because they were losers (Joey Harrington).
Thanks for reading, just my opinions here feel free to disagree and comment. Hope i didn't offend anyone that's not my intention.
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