ESPN2 sucks !

The producers of the Australian open on ESPN2 should ask their commentators to shut up. I was watching this really tight match between Federer and the talented Tomas Berdych and ESPN chose to show us a tease of the Australian open right at the beginning of the second set . Just to make things even worse the commentators just wouldn’t stop talking even during intense points. They did not bother to show the reaction of Federer after a tense match and rather chose to show Mary Joe blabbering about something.The layout of the scoreboard is another nightmare to decipher with really odd placings. They have a constant news ticker which is not related to tennis all the time which is extremely distracting to say the least.

Most of the comments were so stupid that I wished that they could just shut up. Pam shriver and Mary Joe in particular are so annoying and irritating and their constant patronizing of American players would make any tennis lover cringe in their seats. I am sure they were talented tennis players of their generation and they know a lot more about tennis than I do but I pay for my cable and i want to watch a tennis match without someone uttering gibberish all the time. Someone should make them listen to themeselves when watching a match they will realize how irrelevant they really are. Either they learn to shut up when the players start playing and focus on the match or We need a invent a new Mute button to shut off commentary !!