Many viewers are clearly tired of listening to Bob and Meghan after all these years, all these games, all these hours. It's an enormous challenge for any commentators to try to hold an audience's attention for a couple hours at a time, about twenty times each season (especially when many events are blowouts).
I do appreciate the occasional juicy tidbit we get from Meghan (e.g., speaking of Kiah Stokes during the last game: "She just has to learn to bring a consistent effort every single night."), which surely has come to her via Geno. I wish she would use the teleprompter for post-play analysis more because she generally does that well. And I can shrug off Bob's occasional and unfortunate mis-naming of players -- and I certainly don't want to play "GOTCHA!" through every game.
I continue to be impressed by the quality of Kara Lawson's analysis, but she is NOT going to show up on CPTV, so I guess I will just muddle along with Bob and Meghan, make my annual pledge or two, and stay grateful that I can view every single game. There is some contentment in having limited (realistic?) expectations.
My bonus is reading the thrust and parry of sharp guys like Tomcat and Meyers and others like them, who enlighten me by their keen insights, expressed with conviction and clarity.
And I always remember to be careful what I wish for. As the Irish say, "The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know."
