Wimbledon

I left Boris Becker off my list earlier. 25 or 30 years ago the men's side was not totally dominated by 2 players like today. Nastasse or Gerulitis would occasionally break through or a Cash or someone else would get on a roll and end up in the finals. Today it seems there is Federer & Nadal and occasionally 1 or 2 others but not often.
 
I wish the BBC would get rid of John McEnroe. He just rambles on and on about shit. Someone should tell him he's commentating on a British station and no one over here gives a fuck or understands his baseball analogies.
 
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Peter Parka said:
I wish the BBC would get rid of John McEnroe. He just rambles on and on about shit. Someone should tell him he's commentating on a British station and no one over here gives a fuck or understands his baseball analogies.
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If it's McEnroe, then chances are that they're using the same commentating feed that ESPN uses. I could be wrong, but since he broadcasts a shit-ton of the stuff on ESPN, something tells me he's not doing it twice.
 
retro said:
If it's McEnroe, then chances are that they're using the same commentating feed that ESPN uses. I could be wrong, but since he broadcasts a shit-ton of the stuff on ESPN, something tells me he's not doing it twice.
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Nah he does his own stuff for BBC too, there's always a big tug of war for who gets to use him.
 
Peter Parka said:
More like ESPN are using the BBC feeds. McEnroe works for the BBC during Wimbledon as a commentator and pundit.
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I'm pretty certain that he also works for ESPN at the same time then.

But, you're basically saying that an American commentator shouldn't use baseball as an analogy when working for a British station. Is that like the British soccer announcers/commentators here in states shouldn't use cricket and other such sports that don't apply here as analogies? :p
 
retro said:
I'm pretty certain that he also works for ESPN at the same time then.

But, you're basically saying that an American commentator shouldn't use baseball as an analogy when working for a British station. Is that like the British soccer announcers/commentators here in states shouldn't use cricket and other such sports that don't apply here as analogies? :p
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Exactly! It's really irritating and no one has a fucking clue what he's talking about.
 
I dunno, we've had other Americans working for the BBC on Wimbledon and they just stuck to the tennis. McEnroe just rambles on all over the place especially about American sports and the differences between Americans and the English. Today he was kind enough to inform us that the British call soccer, football. Erm, thanks for that, I'm pretty sure we already know what we call our biggest sport and wtf has that got to do with tennis anyway?
 
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