Twelve Black Code Monkeys

There’s certainly enough inane crap on TV these days, and the Olympics has never been a bastion of enlightenment in a see of darkness, with all it’s hyped up stories and blatant US favoritism. But come on!I was watching some of the coverage of the men’s gymnastics last night. They seem to have two experts who do a pretty good job of convincing you that they know what they are talking about. But for some reason NBC has chosen to throw in a third wheel. A general commentator that seems to have little background in the sport. He will say the obvious or worse – things that are completely unsubstantiated, just so that he can say something, since obviously he can’t really add anything useful.

I don’t know why it’s gotten to me so much, but it kind of ruins the whole experience to have some buffoon who has no idea what he’s talking about spout all kinds of nonsense just so there’s no “dead air” or because people need a more “human” angle rather than the actual technical details of the sport at hand. Ugh.